Kooks (song)

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"Kooks"
Song by David Bowie
from the album Hunky Dory
Released17 December 1971 [a]
RecordedSummer 1971
Studio Trident, London
Genre
Length2:53
Label RCA
Songwriter(s) David Bowie
Producer(s) Ken Scott, David Bowie
Official audio
"Kooks (2015 Remaster)" on YouTube

"Kooks" is a song written by the English singer-songwriter David Bowie, which appears on his 1971 album Hunky Dory . Bowie wrote this song to his newborn son Duncan Jones. The song was a pastiche of early 1970s Neil Young because Bowie was listening to a Neil Young record at home on 30 May 1971 when he got the news of the arrival of his son. [6]

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References

  1. Pegg 2016, pp. 343–350.
  2. Cann 2010, pp. 230–234.
  3. Clerc 2021, p. 117: US date.
  4. O'Leary 2015, Notes on chap. 5.
  5. Pitchfork Staff 2004.
  6. Cann 2010, p. 218.

Notes

  1. Some sources give the album release date as 17 November 1971 in the UK and 4 December in the US. [1] [2] [3] According to Chris O'Leary, the US date was before the UK one, although he questions Billboard 's reported date of Saturday 4 December. He does, however, clarify the UK date as 17 December. [4]

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