All the Young Dudes - wikipedia All the Young Dudes `` All the Young Dudes '' Single by Mott the Hoople from the album All the Young Dudes B - side `` One of the Boys '' Released 28 July 1972 Format 7 '' single Recorded May 1972 Genre Glam rock Length ( 3 : 32 ) ( LP Version ) ( 4 : 25 ) ( Non-fadeout Version ) Label Columbia Songwriter ( s ) David Bowie Producer ( s ) David Bowie Mott the Hoople singles chronology `` Downtown '' ( 1971 ) `` All the Young Dudes '' ( 1972 ) `` One of the Boys '' ( 1972 ) `` Downtown '' ( 1971 ) `` All the Young Dudes '' ( 1972 ) `` One of the Boys '' ( 1972 ) Music video Mott The Hoople - All the Young Dudes ( audio ) on YouTube `` All the Young Dudes '' is a song written by David Bowie, originally recorded and released as a single by Mott the Hoople in 1972. In 2004, Rolling Stone rated `` All the Young Dudes '' No. 253 in its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and on its 2010 update was ranked at number 256. It is also one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. Contents 1 Composition 2 Release and aftermath 3 Accolades 4 7 '' single track listing 5 Personnel 6 Cover versions 7 See also 8 References 9 External links Composition Regarded as one of glam rock 's anthems, the song originated after Bowie came into contact with Mott the Hoople 's bassist Peter Watts and learned that the band was ready to split due to continued lack of commercial success. When the band rejected his first offer of a composition, `` Suffragette City '' ( which later appeared on The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars ), Bowie wrote `` All the Young Dudes '' in short order especially for them, allegedly sitting cross-legged on the floor of a room in London 's Regent Street, in front of the band 's lead singer, Ian Hunter. With its dirge - like music, youth suicide references and calls to an imaginary audience, the song bore similarities to Bowie 's own `` Rock ' n ' Roll Suicide '', the final track from Ziggy Stardust. Described as being to glam rock what `` All You Need Is Love '' was to the hippie era, the lyrics name - checked contemporary stars T. Rex and contained references to The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. NME editors Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray have described the track as `` one of that rare breed : rock songs which hymn the solidarity of the disaffected without distress or sentimentality ''. Bowie himself once claimed that the song was not intended to be an anthem for glam, that it actually carried a darker message of apocalypse. According to an interview Bowie gave to Rolling Stone magazine in 1973, the boys are carrying the same news that the newscaster was carrying in the song `` Five Years '' from Ziggy Stardust ; the news being the fact that the Earth had only five years left to live. Bowie explains : `` All the Young Dudes is a song about this news. It 's no hymn to the youth, as people thought. It is completely the opposite. '' `` All the Young Dudes '' is also thought of as a gay anthem. Lou Reed said `` It 's a Gay Anthem ! A rallying call to the young dudes to come out in the streets and show that they were beautiful and gay and proud of it. '' Release and aftermath Mott the Hoople 's single was released in July 1972 and made No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart, No. 37 in the US ( in November ) and No. 31 in Canada, and appeared on their album of the same name in September of that year. In November 1972, Bowie introduced the band on stage at the Tower near Philadelphia and performed the song with Hunter ( released on All the Way from Stockholm to Philadelphia in 1998 and the expanded version of All The Young Dudes in 2006 ). The original Mott the Hoople release had to be changed lyrically in order that it might be played on UK radio and TV. The line in the second verse : `` Wendy 's stealing clothes from Marks and Sparks '' was a reference to UK retailer Marks & Spencer, also known by that colloquialism. As such, air play of the song in its original form would have breached broadcasting regulations relating to advertising in force at the time. The line was replaced with : `` Wendy 's stealing clothes from unlocked cars ''. Today, both versions are freely aired. Bowie took to performing `` All the Young Dudes '' on his own 1973 tour, and a medley version appears on the album Ziggy Stardust -- The Motion Picture, the live recording of the last Ziggy show that was finally released officially in 1983. Bowie 's first released version of the song was in 1974 on the David Live double LP. Bowie had also offered `` Drive - In Saturday '' to Mott the Hoople following `` All the Young Dudes '', but they turned down this offer, at least partially owing to the then - current success of their own `` Honaloochie Boogie ''. In 1992, twenty years after their duet in Philadelphia, Bowie and Hunter again performed the song together with the surviving members of Queen, Mick Ronson, and Def Leppard 's Joe Elliott and Phil Collen at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. The song was also featured during Bowie 's 1995 -- 1996 Outside Tour as well as the 2003 -- 2004 A Reality Tour tour, and is included on the A Reality Tour DVD and A Reality Tour album. Bowie 's own studio version, recorded in December 1972 during the sessions for Aladdin Sane, went unreleased until 1995 when it appeared in mono on the album RarestOneBowie. It was subsequently included, again in mono, on The Best of David Bowie 1969 / 1974, the 2 - disc U.S. version of Best of Bowie, and the 30th Anniversary edition of Aladdin Sane. A stereo version, which is around a minute shorter than the mono version, circulated unofficially among collectors and finally saw official release in November 2014 on Bowie 's Nothing Has Changed compilation set. There also exists a version consisting of the backing track for Mott the Hoople 's version with Bowie 's guide vocal. A variant of this version, combining Bowie 's vocal on the verses with Ian Hunter 's on the chorus, was released on the 2006 reissue of All the Young Dudes. Bowie also used the music in reverse as the basis for `` Move On, '' a track on his 1979 album, Lodger. `` All the Young Dudes '' was featured in the 1995 film Clueless, the 2007 Jason Reitman film Juno and the 2008 film The Wackness. It is also used in Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant 's 2010 film, Cemetery Junction. In 2010 the Mott the Hoople version has been used as the backing for two unrelated UK TV adverts. Accolades List Publisher Rank Year of Publication 500 Greatest Songs of All Time Rolling Stone 256 500 Songs That Shaped Rock Rock & Roll Hall of Fame N / A 1995 7 '' single track listing `` All the Young Dudes '' ( David Bowie ) -- 3 : 32 `` One of the Boys '' ( Mick Ralphs, Ian Hunter ) -- 6 : 46 Personnel Verden Allen -- organ, backing vocals Dale `` Buffin '' Griffin -- drums, tambourine Ian Hunter -- lead vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards Mick Ralphs -- guitar, backing vocals Pete Overend Watts -- bass Cover versions `` All the Young Dudes '' has been covered by many artists as album tracks, B - sides and in live performances. Bruce Dickinson ( of Iron Maiden ), as a solo artist, released the song as a single, where it became a minor hit in the UK, reaching No. 23. It was part of his album Tattooed Millionaire. World Party covered the track on the soundtrack to the 1995 movie Clueless. Ozzy Osbourne covered the track on his 2005 covers ' album Under Cover. Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby reference `` All The Young Dudes '', along with a number of other glitter - era hits, in `` Another Drive - In Saturday '' on their self - titled 2008 album. Tesla ( band ) covered the track on Real to Reel, Vol. 2 in 2007. See also Graduation ( Friends Forever ) by Vitamin C Good Riddance ( Time of Your Life ) by Green day References Jump up ^ 45cat - Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes / One Of The Boys - CBS - UK - CBS S 8271 ^ Jump up to : Roy Carr & Charles Shaar Murray ( 1981 ). Bowie : An Illustrated Record : p. 117 Jump up ^ Betts, Stephen. `` Mott the Hoople, ' All the Young Dudes ' - 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ''. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2016 - 01 - 19. ^ Jump up to : David Buckley ( 2005 ). Strange Fascination -- David Bowie : The Definitive Story : p. 131 Jump up ^ Copetas, Craig ( 28 February 1974 ). `` Beat Godfather Meets Glitter Mainman ''. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 27 March 2017. Jump up ^ Stephen Thomas Erlewine. `` About Mott The Hoople ''. MTV. Retrieved 2016 - 02 - 04. Jump up ^ Goddard, Simon ( 2013 ). Ziggyology. Random House. p. 226. ISBN 9781448118465. Jump up ^ Roberts, David ( 2006 ). British Hit Singles & Albums ( 19th ed. ). London : Guinness World oRecords Limited. p. 381. ISBN 1 - 904994 - 10 - 5. Jump up ^ Pegg, Nicholas ( 2016 ). The Complete David Bowie : New Edition : Expanded and Updated. London : Titan Books. ISBN 978 - 1 - 7856 - 5533 - 3. Jump up ^ Kevin Cann ( 2010 ). Any Day Now - David Bowie : The London Years : 1947 - 1974 : p. 277 Jump up ^ `` Ricky Gervais on the Cemetery Junction soundtrack ''. The Guardian. 2010 - 04 - 09. External links Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes ( Live ) on YouTube David Bowie - All the Young Dudes ( Live at the Isle of Wight ) on YouTube Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Mott the Hoople Pete Overend Watts Dale `` Buffin '' Griffin Ian Hunter Mick Ralphs Verden Allen Morgan Fisher Ariel Bender Mick Ronson Ray Major Nigel Benjamin Steve Hyams John Fiddler Studio albums Mott the Hoople Mott the Hoople ( 1969 ) Mad Shadows ( 1970 ) Wildlife ( 1971 ) Brain Capers ( 1971 ) All the Young Dudes ( 1972 ) Mott ( 1973 ) The Hoople ( 1974 ) Mott Drive On ( 1975 ) Shouting and Pointing ( 1976 ) British Lions British Lions ( 1977 ) Trouble with Women ( 1982 ) Live albums Live ( 1974 ) In Performance 1970 -- 1974 ( 2008 ) Compilation albums Rock and Roll Queen ( 1972 / 1974 ) The Ballad of Ian Hunter and Mott the Hoople ( 1979 ) Two Miles from Heaven ( 1980 ) Singles `` All the Young Dudes '' `` Sweet Jane '' `` Honaloochie Boogie '' `` All the Way from Memphis '' `` Roll Away the Stone '' `` The Golden Age of Rock ' n ' Roll '' `` Foxy, Foxy '' `` Saturday Gigs '' Related articles Discography David Bowie Discography Songs Awards and nominations Filmography Tours Studio albums David Bowie ( 1967 ) David Bowie ( 1969 ) The Man Who Sold the World Hunky Dory The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Aladdin Sane Pin Ups Diamond Dogs Young Americans Station to Station Low `` Heroes '' Lodger Scary Monsters ( and Super Creeps ) Let 's Dance Tonight Never Let Me Down Black Tie White Noise Outside Earthling Hours Heathen Reality The Next Day Blackstar With Tin Machine Tin Machine Tin Machine II Tin Machine Live : Oy Vey, Baby Live albums David Live Stage Ziggy Stardust : The Motion Picture LiveAndWell.com Live EP ( Live at Fashion Rocks ) Live Santa Monica ' 72 VH1 Storytellers A Reality Tour Live Nassau Coliseum ' 76 Cracked Actor ( Live Los Angeles ' 74 ) Welcome to the Blackout ( Live London ' 78 ) Soundtracks Christiane F. 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