David Bowie - Boys Keep Swinging (Official Video)

The official music video for David Bowie - Boys Keep Swinging (From Lodger)
Taken from Bowie's 13th studio album 'Lodger' released in 1979, which featured the singles 'Boys Keep Swinging, DJ, Yassassin and Look Back In Anger'.
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Lyrics
Heaven loves ya, the clouds part for ya
Nothing stands in your way
When you're a boy
Clothes always fit ya, life is a pop of the cherry
When you're a boy
When you're a boy, you can wear a uniform
When you're a boy, other boys check you out
You get a girl, these are your favorite things
When you're a boy
Boys, boys
Boys keep swinging
Boys always work it out
Uncage the colors, unfurl the flag
Luck just kissed you hello
When you're a boy
They'll never clone you, you are always first on the line
When you're a boy
When you're a boy, you can buy a home of your own
When you're a boy, learn to drive and everything
You'll get your share
When you're a boy
Boys, boys
Boys keep swinging
Boys always work it out
About David Bowie:
David Bowie redefined musical genres and the potential of live performance for generations of music lovers. Creating and discarding a variety of personae and restlessly challenging musical boundaries, Bowie released timeless albums including Space Oddity, Hunky Dory, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust…, Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs, Young Americans, Station to Station, "Heroes,” Let's Dance, Heathen, The Next Day and many more. Blackstar, Bowie’s 28th and final studio album, was released on his 69th birthday, January 8, 2016. David Bowie died on January 10, 2016, two days after the release of Blackstar. His body of work, his influence on the worlds of music, art, fashion, film, theatre and beyond, and his legacy of innovation and reinvention will live forever. 2022 kicks off with Bowie at 75, a celebration of his 75th birthday with the Brilliant Adventure box set, the previously unreleased Toy, the 50th anniversary of Ziggy Stardust and a series of special events.
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[@LenapeSF]

The man had it all: good looks, great voice, cool sense of fashion, slick moves on the dance floor & incredible creativity. RIP unforgettable David Bowie.

[@dolores2716]

I've only just recently seen some of his interviews and he was also so smart and so pleasant.

[@LenapeSF]

@@dolores2716 Can't forget that he was well-mannered & intelligent, also! Thanks for reminding me. Be safe.

[@spkanava]

1979

[@philipmarson5582]

and a great sense of humour

[@eastcoastsailingcenter7768]

silent cry from me when they cremated his body .....

[@c0ca1n3luvr]

David Bowie snatching his own wig is my religion.

[@couplakooks]

*puts fifty dollars in the collection box*

[@themaggattack]

"Modern Love gets you to the church on time." 😉 And that sneer as he wipes off and smears his own lipstick... oh LAWD!

[@michellefredaihmann27]

Can I get an amen?? XD

[@spkanava]

1979

[@jeanmichellelaurent]

Honestly the way he tears his makeup off is so iconic

[@lulusaintly631]

I LOVED this - it damn near gave my father a stroke when Bowie came on TV looking like this. You can't imagine the utter dreariness of 1970s Yorkshire. Bowie, Bolan, Mercury put some life into our world.

[@suep3806]

So Happy i got to live in a universe with all of them. Even though I only got to know David's mate Marc Bolan after he was gone - because he was taken too soon.

[@jimmyandrex5697]

I watched this with my mum and a visitor who was paying my dad for a job. We all sat there, Thursday night, TOTP, without comment until the visitor said “He’s not as good as Danny La Rue is he!”

[@teeoh9192]

@@jimmyandrex5697 My very 1st exposure to him, was this video on a show here called "Twiggy's Jukebox", pre-MTV, on a Friday night!

[@meredumais4934]

I first saw this as a ‘black market’ video that had been smuggled into Saudi Arabia. I was a young Western girl suffering from a horrible case of the flu in 1980s Riyadh. My mother popped this into our BetaMax, said “Watch this, you’ll feel better” and I was instantly cured lol

[@davidwellman7114]

I was a huge Bowie fan throughout the '70s, and really got a kick out of his trilogy...this album didn't have the consistent genius of 'Low' or 'Heroes', but it certainly had its moments...I still can't believe that the Man who Sold the World was a mere mortal after all...

[@anna-kaisapaaskyla8113]

David Bowie was the most beautiful man on Earth. And he knew it.

[@MrCalhoun556]

And changed his teeth.

[@sparkl3s229]

@@MrCalhoun556 I mean originally they were pretty messed up but regardless he was still handsome ngl

[@couplakooks]

I loved his original teeth.

[@lesleycooper3088]

@@MrCalhoun556 Wished he didn't,loved his original teeth.

[@lesleycooper3088]

@@couplakooks So did I.

[@CatharticCreation]

David's actually a great actor. Each person he portrays in this video has their own distinct personality.

[@d1jezek]

i've always wondered if the older woman character is supposed to remind you of bette davis or if there's some other inspiration for that particular look.

[@tmage23]

Bowie was studying acting before he got his big break in music. He never really left it behind.

[@uscman]

It surprised me how much of a good actor he was. As the concept of a musician trying to act always has me think twice, regardless if they were as talented as Bowie, musicians like Billie Eilish or Doja Cat, or an untalented hack like Cardi B (who fucking can’t fucking act or fucking do anything for fucking shit!). It always has me go “hold up, can you actually act or are you being a sellout?”

[@april1969simnel]

@@d1jezek Marlene Dietrich. He'd done a film "with" her the year before in 1978, her last, called Just A Gigolo. Unfortunately it wasn't very good. She and Bowie had to shoot their one scene together in separate places because she was too old and weak to travel to Berlin. Her parts were shot in Paris, where she lived. Dietrich had always fascinated him. Bowie lifted his pose that's on the cover of Hunky Dory from a book of 1930s photos of her.

[@robarsenault836]

It's no exaggeration to say he could literally do anything (performance wise).

[@my2cents2u]

David Bowie - the epitome of androgyny. No one did it like him. A multi-talented master.

[@mitch6469]

Can we just appreciate his dancing like I'm living

[@williamsherry8041]

Great fun talent love it

[@laurabowden5]

Ru Paul is quaking

[@teresa0817]

Sarah Seneviratne, by far my favorite video of him dancing. Absolute love

[@Sincopare]

There was a time I tried to dance like that - but just couldn’t get cool enough

[@l.michelleindigenousred2757]

The dancing is very cute, and comical😂😂

[@stephaniemeals4983]

Happy Heavenly 78th Birthday to the one and only David Bowie. You are still loved and missed. ❤

[@ArtTube333]

I love how comments on Bowie videos are always so positive. ❤

[@ОлесикБровка]

Он легенда, он всегда с нами!❤

[@nightshadespectre409]

The Russian person above me said “He is a legend, he is always with us.”

[@patxi601]

He worked hard creating millions of unconditionals fans. Our opinions now fluorish all together with the love he create.

[@zoe79624]

He looks better than I do in a dress! Love Bowie

[@oliveeisner8964]

zoe palmer. hey don't feel bad he looked better than most people in a dress or trousers! sexiest coolest guy that ever walked the planet.

[@zoe79624]

Olive Eisner, he most certainly was!

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

Olive Eisner So true.

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

David Bowie: Hotter and cooler* in two genders and >a dozen characters than you will ever be in your own gender and character 😐 (Since 1947™) *Try and reckon that one out -- Bowie could pull it off, of course.

[@markandresen1]

Same here.

[@marykateryan2270]

It's March 2024 and this video still Knocks Me Out. And I saw it back then (thank you KZbin people for bringing it back to me!). Talk about cutting edge ... Bowie was the DEFINITION of the Bleeding Edge

[@simonbarber5440]

I remember at the time thinking up back stories of the 3 "Bowie girls". All I recall is the elderly, graceful lady had been active in the Secret Service in WW2, parachuted into France with the Resistance, and never told anyone afterwards what she'd done. In the 1970's, the age and timing was about right...

[@torilongstaff5591]

That’s very beautiful.

[@SiiriCressey]

She transfixed me just now. The other two are rather......expected? But an aged, low-energy, non-sexualized person....that was a surprise.

[@SiiriCressey]

She transfixed me just now. The other two are rather......expected? But an aged, low-energy, non-sexualized person....that was a surprise.

[@jdallinder]

This is art. It doesn't get any better.

[@omanmc]

Bowie, such a great bone structure in face, perfect postures in drag, catchy song and terrific hooks and musicians playing instruments they are not familiar with. Great song.

[@BenNewton-c6z]

Where on earth did you get the idea that idea from ? The guitarist is a certain Carlos Alomar with whom Bowie collaborated many times from the mid-1970s.

[@omanmc]

@@BenNewton-c6z actually Carlos played drums on this track, with Adrian Belew on guitar. You can check the facts in any Bowie related stories.

[@omanmc]

@@BenNewton-c6z Carlos played drums on this track, Adrian Belew played lead guitar. You could check any Bowie story how Instrumentarium were changed in this track.

[@gloomyvale3671]

@@BenNewton-c6z on this song the previous comment was spot on, he like Iggy Pop swapped out the band to play different instruments.

[@imjuststardust5079]

Gotta love Bowie in drag

[@thevoid99]

he's pretty as a girl.

[@reverie3200]

Holy crap I had to do a double take at 0:51

[@moonchild3558]

Alyssa Lmao aayyyee we meet again

[@reverie3200]

MoonChild35 woah my dood

[@babbybobabs8701]

prettier than me at least

[@lostinwebwires]

Bowie's moves are my oxygen.

[@rubenmku]

The guitar solo at the end is electrifying!!

[@hummerman62]

Adrian Belew, wow what a player

[@user-nr5zo5os2d]

Yes!

[@Garylpool1]

It was rumoured (so don’t quote me) that Bowie insisted on members of his band playing different instruments to their usual ones for the guitar bit at the end so it would sound totally [censord] up. Think he achieved the sound he wanted

[@theunrealtimemm]

@@Garylpool1 Carlos could drum ok. Bowie played guitar. The drummer - well, even Eno thought it wasn't very good, so Tony Vosconti replaced his bass line. It was more Eno's idea - his oblique strategy stuff generated from written instructions on cards. Belew did several passes on the guitar solo, as they wouldn't let him hear the track before he recorded. I imagine it got better, so they picked and chose.

[@silver4240]

First video I ever saw of Bowie- I was 14 and hooked for life! RIP David, we all miss you terribly!😢

[@AnyoneCanSee]

FANTASTIC! When he performed this on SNL they bleeped "other boys check you out." Can you believe that was considered too subversive for TV back '79.

[@thatperson9292]

they could just pretend it meant that boys check you out to be like you. you get me?

[@winterdesert1]

The SNL has something pretty shocking if you watch the original video. You have to look close! The version you saw probably had that cut out, not the lyrics. Look close at the crotch area in the original video. I didn't catch it when it originally aired, but years later noticed it. It flashes on and off pretty quick.

[@pushthetempo2]

People forget how much society has changed in such a short time.

[@s.oddity3640]

@@pushthetempo2 for the worse

[@dingIeberry]

@@s.oddity3640 shut up!!!

[@DJStephenGlass]

I can’t imagine what rock, pop, avant-garde or popular culture would be without Bowie.

[@andrewmawhinney1347]

The suit here is another Bowie fashion gem-this is '79 -it wouldn't look out of place in 2021. As usual light years ahead.

[@charyton1]

Dad and I loved this song♥️

[@fusox]

...there is no-one quite like this creative man ........

[@Itaskashowstable100]

I’d never heard this one until recently. So good, as always.

[@ginge5413]

He'll never cease to amaze me

[@mauriciobetancourtAutor]

Wasn't Mr. Bowie like the coolest dude ever? Love this song, this vid!

[@rhianjones1319]

“I think Boys Keep Swinging is one of David Bowie’s best song in the history of pop music “

[@mountzod]

I remember seeing this as a kid and being like "WTF was he thinking!? This is weird sht!". Now at 32 I'm like "This sht is genius!!!" Love you Bowie: a true original. ❤

[@jimbecarroll5780]

See what happens web you ev0lve, unlike a lot of Americans, you have depth to your outlook on things

[@oliveeisner8964]

My God that swagger! Then he tops that by taking the catwalk confidently in 5" heels! love this man~

[@rwlane]

Absolutely stunning ❤

[@diomedes8791]

This has to be one of the coolest music videos ever.

[@nickcolby1391]

I absolutely love this song , genius , never played on the radio strangely, 😢

[@chrispolo840]

Hey you might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like David Bowie

[@jemen1709]

I´m a completey non-dancer. But watching David in this makes me absolute wanna storm the dancefloor at the local discotheque.

[@lincbond442]

I love the cacophonous disarray towards the end of this song. Chaotic brilliance.

[@mahmoudabdelghany7640]

I'm in love with the way he dances in this video. ❤❤

[@ShaniTrahan-xx9lc]

Happy birthday David Bowie! 🎊🎊🎊🎉🎉🎉🎈🎈🎈🎈🎁🎁🎁🎂🎂🎂

[@colinhoward2064]

My favourite Bowie video. Awesome.

[@thetriumphofthethrill2457]

An all-time fave, one of his best. That groovy bass line just gets you. Memorable vid too highlighting the man's sleazy and suave debonair charm. Bowie in drag is a delight too. And man, that avant-garde guitar freak-out at the end perfectly wraps up this unforgettable track.

[@TheRyanos]

Words can't describe how much I love that noisy guitar solo at the end. Do you know what type of genre that type of "sound" belongs to? Besides avant garde ofcourse.

[@thetriumphofthethrill2457]

@@TheRyanos Experimental would be another word used to describe it. 😊

[@zbygniewprlwytzkofsky6614]

Watch the iconic live 1978 Tokio "Station to station" performance for the Andrew Belew guitar playing.

[@thetriumphofthethrill2457]

@@zbygniewprlwytzkofsky6614 Thanks. 🙂 👍

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

Tony Visconti on bass and Adrian Belew on guitar.

[@StrangeFacinations]

I went to the David Bowie Is exhibit in Chicago in 2015. So many costumes on mannequins close enough to touch. And wall sized videos and other articles that were part of his life, like his diamond coke spoon. I stared at the long dress from that video while the music played, it was transcendent.

[@grahamwilson5835]

I still can't believe that it's been over 7 years since we lost this Genius.

[@chrispolo840]

Hey you might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like David Bowie

[@Kainlarsen]

I wish I could have even a fraction of the cool that Bowie had by the time I'm gone.

[@mgparis]

I miss Bowie ;( I feel like I didn't appreciate him enough when he was still with us, may he rest in peace

[@veronikarampasova7439]

I absolutely love the way he moves🖤🖤🖤

[@nataliedvorakova575]

Veronika Rampasová :)

[@veronikarampasova7439]

kkh369 yeah I agree

[@realtristan3160]

We are absolutely beginners

[@sharonbevis6170]

Veronika Rampasová OMG!! I LOVE how he moves too

[@Mrbrbusby]

As did Katy Bush who based an entire bloody career around it.

[@Epiphany369]

A taste of things to come... He had it all, he knew it all! He isn't gone - just had to disappear!

[@zachsmith3]

Jumping from David eras is surreal. He is confident and yet playing a different character in each video

[@MrKaplan230]

The thin white Duke will live forever.

[@stevemckenna2401]

Genius. Pure Genius. Game Changer. Coolest guy who ever lived. Miss him so much.

[@lotharroberts5978]

Best bass line ever.

[@jcodling3256]

Shame this genius is no longer with us he was fantastic miss your original music, so glad you gave us all you did in your songs another true legend we've lost.

[@adamthebolt3277]

The bravest artist in history.

[@sallyanne5492]

I just love watching him dance, such fabulous style. 🕺

[@generation-now]

He had a great sense of humour.

[@bowiev2schneider58]

si 👍

[@quasimodomojo8761]

I was not prepared for this music video at 5:00 AM. Needless to say, made my morning. Close to tears, but that's to be expected at such an early hour.

[@samanthalewin4397]

Brilliant preformer so many levels. Love him to bits. He is sorely missed.

[@wendyhamm9722]

My favorite part of the video is when he is dressed as the three backup singers!😂 He had each personality down pat!

[@jettcarlburg356]

I CRIED and missed work when I learned Bowie had died 😭😭😭😭 3 years later and I still can't believe he's gone!

[@markyoung8545]

Me too🥺

[@JoeAyres]

I was in mourning for about a month. 😢

[@albertvanderwoude3262]

Same here

[@jimbecarroll5780]

I have unplanned moments of breaking down when casually listening to David; it just comes over me and I go to pieces thinking of him and it's starting now, of course, and I think he can see it all here. Was a lisetner and influenced sincwe I first saw him in 73 or so. So it's been a Long time of him in my lffe as a performer. Got to photograph he & Iman in the early 2000's. Went to his memorial @ their apt downtown for a week. amazing photographs I did of the entire week. It wwas like a concert for him every night outsoide and in a few clubs doiwn there on LES. I innerstand WHY Iman says she does NOT use the term "my former husband" or "widower' when she speaks of David. They are always ONE with Each.

[@daytripper9222]

Oh God I miss him. What a talented man. This video always puts a smile on my face. Life's just a pop of the Cherry when you're a boy LOL

[@stleonia]

he was the king.. now he’s a legend ⭐️

[@kevintroll4307]

Love the noise at the end of this track. Brings the avant garde into the pop mainstream. And he looks so good!

[@andrewhayes7055]

Love the bass on this track

[@Sincopare]

2024 and boys keep swinging!

[@Loomismusic]

"learn to drive and everything" - my favorite line in this song

[@erickennedy7412]

Darn this guy WAS/IS music. Up and down. That "take that" attitude with the wiping of the lipstick is classic.

[@Blondejam]

Happy Birthday David. You are and will always be the best musical experience of all time. I love Floyd, Funkadelic, Ska anything you name it but you my friend have always knocked it out of the park with everything you did. The world of music owes you!!!

[@Adulteducation8]

An absolute visionary when it came to putting music and image together. The greatest music video artist ever. EVER. Always ahead of the curve.

[@nicolasjosephs9910]

Bowie was such an epic artistic genius, Lodger is an album full of songs I hated on first listen but only because they are so unconventional and unusual, now I can’t get them out of my head

[@randallsample1005]

Personally, Lodger is my favorite Bowie album.

[@Booglebash]

Lodger was so weird and so good...

[@Newsnewsnewsnetwork]

Yes

[@camillerobinson8211]

Fuck yes.

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

The weirdest Bowie album IMO.

[@jackal59]

@@ThinWhiteAxe In context, Low was far stranger.

[@Zoecat101]

Lodger is definitely my favorite lmao

[@jdahack7367]

Genius. We love and miss you so much.

[@chrispolo840]

Hey you might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like David Bowie

[@yasmine2937]

Thank you for blessing us with all these uploadings. ✨

[@diamonddog4708]

Beautiful, other worldly genius

[@Xcorgi]

Really sexy move smearing his lipstick 💄 after pulling off his wig. Absolutely iconic!

[@rodrigoca3288]

Ms Bowie giving reveals, 3 different looks. She brings it to you every ball

[@petermanzi9363]

Four different looks!

[@ananasasjenkins881]

This is the greatest music video I've ever seen. No exaggeration.

[@neville1958]

He was the ‘Second Coming’!! Absolute, absolute genius

[@lostcitybird]

i love that he dressed in drag for this, the world will never be the same without him

[@reinpost]

I was really impressed with this song when it was a hit. So much so, that one day, when I came home from school, I went upstairs, opened the door, and saw my two younger sisters strumming badminton rackets and chanting: boys - boys - boys keep swinging, boys keep swinging - boys - boys - boys keep swinging, boys keep swinging - boys - boys - ...

[@xtragurl6369]

He was ahead of his time

[@rutherfojr]

This is effin brilliant. Pure art the way David knows best. In fact the combo of visuals singing lyrics and iconography are dop drawer Bowie. If you don't like it it's probably because you are the little old bewildered lady at the end. But Bowie offers you a pitying old lady kiss. Brilliant 👏

[@chrischapman3377]

Love the fact the bass guitarist had new strings. Sounded fantastic on this brilliant song

[@justinkade0722]

‘Lodger’ is one of my favorite albums!!!

[@BunyanaRed1958]

The greatest all round solo artist of all time.

[@charlielohr5252]

amen

[@deedk4083]

He is just all Bowie here, I love the dance. His later years were fantastic but this is so raw and not very commercialized, early Bowie is everything.

[@rowdybodine8585]

I used to tape all the Rockworld shows and they showed three videos from Lodger. We played this over and over. This song gave me my marching orders. Come on now, swivelers!

[@robbiethepict2783]

The man with the moves.

[@ladystardust2008]

I will never love anyone else like I love David Bowie ⚡☄

[@ciocanflavius3690]

Lyrics: Heaven loves ya The clouds part for ya Nothing stands in your way When you're a boy Clothes always fit ya Life is a pop of the cherry When you're a boy When you're a boy You can wear a uniform When you're a boy Other boys check you out You get a girl These are your favourite things When you're a boy Boys Boys Boys keep swinging Boys always work it out Uncage the colours Unfurl the flag Luck just kissed you hello When you're a boy They'll never clone ya You're always first on the line When you're a boy When you're a boy You can buy a home of your own When you're a boy Learn to drive and everything You'll get your share When you're a boy Boys Boys Boys keep swinging Boys always work it out

[@amelieberry1532]

watching this music video was the first comprehensible experience i had of David Bowie when I was like 7 and I remember thinking who the bloody fuck is that absolute weirdo and now years later he has become my favourite thing in the universe 💖✨

[@madgemuso7314]

I had exactly the same experience with the video for Ashes to Ashes

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

My first encounter was Labyrinth, I think. And then Blackstar. But let's be real, there's no non-weird way to be introduced to Bowie 🤣

[@pepper5686]

Mine was the Life On Mars? music video. Then the song Changes.

[@andreasboose5611]

Wow David has some unique dance moves 😮

[@mikek5752]

I'm surprised that nobody mentioned MTV. This was in rotation from the beginning. Played until 1983-84. Everybody who had cable saw this video daily.

[@cvorovic1968]

This video was created 2 years before MTV started.

[@suffragettecities]

this came out in 1979

[@andrewowens9382]

David Bowie music 🎶 🎵 👌 I was brought up with all these songs it only seems like yesterday, still brilliant 👏 👌 👍, a great person is music will live on ,r,I,p

[@stevegasparutti8341]

Bowie was 80s during the 70s. Thats how great he was

[@cutletofcthulhu8079]

Pfft. The music was pure early 2000's to 2010's. Waaaaay ahead of his time.

[@davehoy2104]

Miss him so much 🥲

[@alecjohnson5269]

No artist goes near Bowie IRREPLACEABLE GENIUS AND INNOVATOR OF MUSIC HE WAS AND STILL IS HUGE BOWIE THE GREATEST IMO PHENOMENAL LEGEND

[@darryllmcconnell]

What's so wonderfully hilarious about the lyrics is the way that he implies that just being 'a boy' has such queer connotations - "other boys check you out" etc. Love that line: "learn to drive and everything.. xx 🤣

[@alisonshenton]

I REMEMBER WATCHING BOYS KEEP SWINGING WHEN I WAS AT SCHOOL ON TOP OF THE POPS FROM THAT DAY TRANSFIXED WITH BOWIE ALL OF MY LIFE HUGE BOWIE FAN MY MUM SAID I WAS WEIRD REALLY DON'T CARE SLEEP WELL MY STARMAN MISS YOU MADLY

[@doritoreiss8089]

I hadn’t thought about this song and video for years. It came on the radio in the car tonight. ❤️

[@mecatroniquejohn]

Lodger is so underrated album

[@emitube01]

David was such an incredible talent

[@artemis_lesbowie]

i want this video projected on my tombstone for the rest of time after i die

[@deboravictorino618]

He is eternal, he is the best, my love