“[Bowie scrawled on the box of the ‘Suffragette City’ demo] ‘This might be of some use to you, would you like to cover it?’ We played it and didn’t think it was quite right…[I called Bowie] and said ‘Thanks very much for the tape, we won’t be recording it because we’ve split up. And he sounded genuinely upset…He called me back two hours later and said he’d spoken to Tony DeFries, his manager at MainMan, who would try to get us out of the position we were in. He said, ‘Also, I’ve written a song for you since we spoke, which could be great…[A few days later] Bowie played me this song, ‘All The Young Dudes’ on his acoustic guitar. He hadn’t got all the words but the song just blew me away, especially when he hit the chorus.”

Overend Watts, cited in The Complete David Bowie (2004 edition), p.22