Diamond Dogs - The Album

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Songs (Time)

All songs written, arranged and produced by David Bowie except Rock 'N Roll With Me words by Bowie, music by Bowie and Peace.

1. Future Legend (1:05)
2. Diamond Dogs (5:56)
3. Sweet Thing (3:39)
4. Candidate (2:40)
5. Sweet Thing (reprise) (2:31)
6. Rebel Rebel (4:30)
7. Rock 'N Roll With Me (4:00)
8. We Are The Dead (4:58)
9. 1984 (3:27)
10. Big Brother (3:21)
11. Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family (2:00)

    Bonus tracks on RykoDisc release

12. Dodo (2:55) Previously unreleased track recorded in 1973
13. Candidate (5:05) Demo version recorded in 1973

Release details

Original release by RCA, April 24 1974

Rerelease on CD by RykoDisc 1990 with bonus tracks

Mixed by

David Bowie and Tony Visconti except Rebel Rebel, Rock 'N Roll With Me and We Are The Dead mixed by David Bowie and Keith Harwood.

Musicians

David Bowie: vocals, guitar, saxes, moog and mellotron

Mike Garson: piano

Alan Parker: guitar on 1984

Herbie Flowers: bass

Tony Newman: drums

Anysley Dunbar: drums

Tony Visconti: strings

Trivia

• The apocalyptic 1984 album. David had wanted to make a theatrical production of 1984, but the Orwell estate denied the rights (as they had done to others). Diamond Dogs is the remnants of the work done for the production.
• The cover art on the original album has a half dog, half Bowie figure painted by Guy Peellaert. This was according to David, a visibly obvious "male dog". RCA didn't like that, and the offending parts were airbrushed out of the release art. History has a way of repeating itself, as a similar controversy arose over the Tin Machine II cover.

  
  The original RCA cover

  
  The Rykodisc cover in its unexpurgated glory

• Albert sent in a picture of this promotional sticker for the album.

  

• Chart Performance:

  Country	Date	Peak #	# of weeks
  UK	June 8, 1974	1	17
  US	?	5	25
  UK	May 14, 1983	60	14
  UK	October 27, 1990	67	1

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