Black Country Rock

"Black Country Rock"
Song by David Bowie from the album The Man Who Sold the World
Released November 4, 1970 (U.S.)
April 1971 (UK)
Recorded Trident and Advision Studios, London
18 April - 22 May 1970
Genre Glam rock, blues rock
Length 3:32
Label Mercury Records
Writer David Bowie
Producer Tony Visconti
The Man Who Sold the World track listing

"All the Madmen"
(2)		 "Black Country Rock"
(3)		 "After All"
(4)

"Black Country Rock" is a song written by David Bowie in 1970 for the album The Man Who Sold the World, released in November 1970 in the U.S. and April 1971 in the UK. An upbeat blues-rock number, it has been described as a "respite" from the musical and thematical heaviness of the remainder of the album.[1] Its style has been compared to Marc Bolan's contemporary Tyrannosaurus Rex, down to Bowie's imitative vibrato in the final verse.[2] According to producer Tony Visconti, Bowie had the music ready by the start of the sessions but the words were a last-minute addition in the studio, the singer doing his Bolan impression "spontaneously ... because he ran out of lyrics ... we all thought it was cool, so it stayed."[3] The song appeared in the soundtrack of the film The Kids Are All Right, released in 2010.

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Notes

  1. ↑ Roy Carr & Charles Shaar Murray (1981). Bowie: An Illustrated Record: pp.36-38
  2. ↑ David Sheppard (2007). "Wishful Beginnings", MOJO 60 Years of Bowie: p.27
  3. ↑ Nicholas Pegg (2000). The Complete David Bowie: p.39

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