Hunky Dory - David Bowie Reviews

Hunky Dory was the 1971 release by David Bowie, the predecessor of the 'Ziggy Stardust' era. Peaking at number 3 in the UK album chart, it is the epitome of Bowie's early style, with songs such as Oh! You Pretty Things and (of course) Changes really standing out amongst the melee. It is one of Bowie's most popular albums, and is more easy-rock ...  Read the complete review

Hunky DOry is probably David Bowie's most commercial album. It is more wide ranging than Ziggy Stardust and Alladin Sane. It kicks off with changes - a piano and saxaphone led peice with a huge chorus. When you here it you know that this is Bowie at his peak, It then leads into Oh you pretty things, another huge hit for ...  Read the complete review

The airbrushed cover shot of David Bowie on the cover of his Hunky Dory album in 1971 was clearly aimed at playing up to the impending "Is he gay?" controversy which Bowie himself used so archfully to further his career as a God of Glam Rock in the first years of the new decade. He stares wistfully out into some hazy half-distance like ...  Read the complete review

The first time I came across Hunky Dory, I was 16 years old. The guy I fancied in the sixth form had rated it as one of his all time favourite albums. Little impressionable me, like your typical teenager girl,wanted to copy the hormone stirrer two years above me. Also, little impressionable me was something of a huge music fan. Having spent most ...  Read the complete review

... in which David Robert Jones, music hall entertainer, late of Beckenham in Kent, pays affectionate tribute to those he has loved... David Bowie's 1973 'Pin-Ups' album was formally his tribute album, featuring covers of some of the biggest songs from the London scene of the mid 60s, but in many ways it was 1971's ...  Read the complete review

I'm going to have to go against popular opinion here. I got hold of this album because it has "Life on Mars" on it- which is the best Bowie song ever. However, apart from that the rest of the album doesn't really live up to this brilliance. True, it stands alone in the Bowie catalogue in terms of it's overall style ...  Read the complete review

This is one of my favourite all time albums. As a pre-teen, this album made a very significant impression on my adolescence. Every one else was into Duran Duran, Spandau and ABC, I was into Bowie, Stones and Lou Reed. Needless to say, I was a bit off stream. I don't like to comment on individual tracks on albums unless they are ...  Read the complete review

It's almost 30 years since Bowie released this masterpiece - and I have not heard a record that comes close in my opinion. From 'Changes' - which still sounds like a song recorded just a few weeks ago - to his almost hippyish 'Fill your heart' and the classic 'Life on Mars' - this album is a must for anyone who hasnt ...  Read the complete review

In my experience the Bowie album that even non-fans find easily accessible, HUNKY DORY makes perennially amusing listening when you start thinking about just how many bands/albums have clearly been influenced by it (would Suede, for example, even exist if this album had never been made?) Songs like 'Changes' and 'Life On Mars' are, ...  Read the complete review

Opening with one of his most famous tracks, which is great record, but I am sick of hearing it and of it being quoted in reference to Bowie’s chameleon attributes. “Oh! You Pretty Things” is far better, with great piano and lyrics. This album is a bit more down to earth than “The Man Who Sold The World” there is a bit ...  Read the complete review