Kooks (song)

Kooks (song)

Song infobox
Name = Kooks


Artist = David Bowie
Album = Hunky Dory
Released = December 17 1971
track_no = 5
Recorded = Trident Studios, London April 1971
Genre = Pop rock, Glam rock
Length = 2:53
Label = RCA Records
Writer = David Bowie
Producer = Ken Scott, David Bowie
prev = "Life on Mars?"
prev_no = 4
next = "Quicksand"
next_no = 6

"Kooks" is a song written by David Bowie from 1971 on the album "Hunky Dory". Bowie wrote this song to his newborn son Duncan Jones. He was listening to a Neil Young record at home as he got the news of the arrival of his son. The song was a pastiche of early 1970s Neil Young. British indie band The Kooks named themselves after the song.

Live versions

* It was recorded for the BBC "In Concert" radio show with John Peel June 3rd, 1971 and broadcast June 20th, 1971. In 2000 this was released on the "Bowie at the Beeb" album.

Cover versions

* Robbie Williams - Bonus track on "Old Before I Die" single
* Smashing Pumpkins - Parsian Black Session
* Danny Wilson - Single/David
* Tindersticks - Bowie Songbook
* Andrea Perry - "Spiders from Venus: Indie Women Artists and Female-Fronted Bands Cover David Bowie" (2003)

References

Pegg, Nicholas, "The Complete David Bowie", Reynolds & Hearn Ltd, 2000, ISBN 1-903111-14-5


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