LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 17, 2019…ON THIS DATE IN 1971 DAVID BOWIE DROPPED HIS 4TH ALBUM ‘HUNKY DORY’. WHEN BOWIE RECORDED THIS ALBUM HE WAS WITHOUT A RECORD CONTRACT. WHEN RCA RECORDS HEARD THE TAPES OF THE ALBUM THEY SIGNED HIM IMMEDIATELY.
HUNKY DORY WAS THE FIRST BOWIE RECORD TO FEATURE ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE BAND THAT WOULD BECOME KNOWN THE FOLLOWING YEAR AS ‘ZIGGY STARDUST’S SPIDERS FROM MARS.’ THE LP WAS POWERED BY THE SONG ‘CHANGES,’ WHICH IS ONE OF FOUR BOWIE SONGS TO BE INCLUDED IN THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME’S “500 SONGS THAT SHAPED ROCK AND ROLL.” THE ALBUM WAS RANKED AT ‘ONE OF THE 100 MOST IMPORTANT ROCK ALBUMS’ BY “TIME” MAGAZINE. HERE’S THE MEGA HIT FROM THE ALBUM. THE INCOMPARABLE DAVID BOWIE WITH A LIVE VERSION OF ‘CHANGES’
