First time hearing Mott The Hoople "All the Young Dudes" Reaction | Asia and BJ

[@robertasirgutz8800]

David Bowie wrote the song. Mott weren't charting, and wanted to break up. Bowie convinced them to stay together, and record the song. It's an iconic piece of music.

[@fredkrissman6527]

It sounds like a song off Bowie's HunkyDory or ZiggyStardust too...

[@scottmacdonald1826]

He's also an uncredited backup singer. Bowie's version on "David Live" is almost as good.

[@angelscribbles2525]

YES YES YES....FINALLY SOMEONE SHOWS LOVE TO MOTT THE HOOPLE! THANK YOU!!!

[@CB3358]

Written & produced by David Bowie who's also on backing vocals.

[@alphajava761]

Bowie sorta ripped off the Beatles, a lot on this song. But I love it.

[@gertrudelaronge6864]

... & you can her it!

[@bobwoolerOriGinal]

@@alphajava761 Any particular song, or just the style? Or both maybe?

[@ChanoQlo]

@@alphajava761 you gonna drop that comment and don't say which song it was ripped off?

[@kjek1]

@@alphajava761 the Beatles sort of ripped off a load of American blues artists. Usually you can always make these connections one way or another

[@imweakfordeaky]

The first time Queen toured in the USA, they were the supporting act for Mott the Hoople ! In the Queen song “Now I’m Here”, they have a line - “…down in the city, just Hoople and me”

[@Barb5001]

Exactly... I was there opening nite at their six nite gig at NY City's Uris theater. "In 1974, Queen were an up-and-coming British band, and Mott the Hoople were a British band on their final legs. Glam rock was ending, and Mott frontman Ian Hunter was quickly losing interest in the group. But Mott the Hoople were far more famous at the time, and when they toured together, Queen was the opening act.

[@johnmcdermid6896]

Sorry mate I've just repeated everything you said, that'll teach me to read other comments 😀😀

[@Bob-pw7rf]

Was at the NYC show. 2500 ppl. and Queen is the warmup Band. Awesome.

[@stevesharpe361]

Mth mentioned queen aka smile in marrionette

[@maggycamardella9035]

@@Barb5001 I was there - Uris Theatre - NYC 1974

[@easyrolling]

They were part of the glam rock craze in the early 70s . Lead singer Ian Hunter turned into a fine song writer and eventually went solo . This one was written by David Bowie. Another suggestion of theirs with a different vibe is All the way from Memphis.. thanks again for the fine breakdown..

[@Dooklawz]

lol...hell yes! All The Way From Memphis is great !

[@giuliogrifi7739]

Yeah, Ian Hunter is a great musician...I still have his lp called "You're never alone with a schizophrenic"...great album !

[@dwanpyrtle3134]

@@giuliogrifi7739 It's one of the all-time greatest album titles. Enormously talented performer and song writer. If they want to hear one song from this one that is a good representation of Ian Hunter's talents, I suggest . 'Just Another Night'.

[@boydsprehn2140]

And the Hoople's lead guitarist went on to co-found Bad Company.

[@bellodrade]

He went on to hook up with Ellen Foley to produce a pretty good solo album.

[@cherylmarquez2645]

Mott the Hoople was a great band, brings back memories of my younger days.

[@MrFiumefreddo]

Great show. Check out their tune, “All the way from Memphis.”

[@jennhen2675]

In 1974 I went to a concert with 3 bands. When you see who they were and what the ranking was 1974 you are going to be amazed! Top billing was Mott the Hoople, middle billing was Aerosmith, and are you ready???? Bottom billing was Queen!

[@markrobertdevison1227]

Had to be an awesome concert. I wish I had been old enough to attend such a concert. My time didn't start till the end of the 70's.

[@jennhen2675]

@@markrobertdevison1227 It absolutely was!

[@markrobertdevison1227]

@@jennhen2675 What a great memory to have! Good for you, Jenn!

[@scottfrench4139]

That's an accurate artistic ranking of the three.

[@dbradx]

Another big-time classic - excellent track, with a little help on sax and backing vocals by the one and only David Bowie. Great song choice and great reaction as always - peace and love from Canada! ☮️

[@markredmond2014]

You forgot to mention that Bowie wrote the track

[@steffenandersen436]

♡♥︎♥︎♡PEACE AND LOVE FROM NORWAY♡ ♥︎♥︎♡

[@steffenandersen436]

@@markredmond2014 yea True, they forgot to mention that fact . Maybe They Thought Most Of The PPL Whatching This Vid Is Known With The Artist And Tracks . BUT it Is for sure People here or that Will see this Video N First Time Listening On The Artist,so it Will for sure be a good thing to Mention BowiE Who Is actualy Person that stands behind the Backing Vocals AND Writer Of This Awesome Track AnD GooD WorkinG TracK;) I hope You All People Have A good Day And Stay Safe In these Hard Times. Take Care Of The People's around you And Don't Take Things for granted or the People That You care for♡♡♡

[@dbradx]

@@markredmond2014 you're absolutely right, I completely forgot that!

[@shannonhenson609]

Definitely reminds me of the early Queen and Hoople concerts in the mid 70's. A golden era, for sure.

[@davidevans3175]

The absolute best party music of all time. Walking into someone's apartment, lots of friendly people sitting around, lights down low, stuff going on, All The Young Dues on the stereo - moments you never forget.

[@karenscigliano9787]

Perfect!! I'm there!! (and was there...many times!!)

[@CANDOKNOWHOW]

Dude.. your comment is exactly what I was remembering how I first heard this song being played at a party with some older heads. Spot on!

[@robertflowers6621]

I'm pretty sure I was at the same party...I think it was a kegger, probably sometime around the summer of either '72 or '73

[@ronaldelliott4373]

Right on guys with your open minds, trying things outside your comfort zone. Trust your subscriber family, they won’t steer you wrong. Mott The Hoople? Would’ve never thought this blast from the past would show up here. Very cool. 😎

[@t-bone6467]

Awesome thanks so much for this reaction!!! My high school anthem.

[@bobwowk8440]

Cleveland Rocks by lead singer Ian Hunter is the intro song for The Drew Carey Show. Ian Hunter’s other killer rock and roll song is simply titled Bastard. All The Way From Memphis is another tune that was great in its day.

[@darkandstormie]

Don't forget the eternal, "One Bitten, Twice Shy" by Ian Hunter!

[@debrabeck9630]

Ah, Mott the Hoople! Thanks for reacting to this underappreciated group.

[@wraithby]

Mott the Hoople was a magnificent band...Ian Hunter is a legend!

[@bobschenkel7921]

Also by Mott The Hoople: Driving Sister, Honoloochi Boogie, All The Way From Memphis, and even a song called Violence.

[@jimcarlson6157]

"Missing link, poolroom stink" is such a great opening lyric

[@stevesharpe361]

Marionette

[@bobbugwithoneeyeskingiskin8974]

Mott the Hoople was the link between the British Glam Rock scene, at the start of 70’s, that eventually led to the late 70’s British Punk Rock scene!

[@donstuard2546]

They were an influential band from England. They were very influential to Joe Elliott the lead sing for Def Leppard. Mick Ralphs, the original guitar player for Bad Company. Csme out of Mott. This isy favorite song by them. You can heard their type of sound and vocals in a lot of British bsnds. They eere the fore fathers of a lot of music in the 70s.

[@vicprovost2561]

I love Mott, one of the best Glam-Rock bands ever, they, David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars and T Rex were a huge influence on the 70s and 80s and had many great songs. Try All the Way to Memphis next. I saw them twice and were rocking and unique, with there own sound. The incredible part of those 2 concerts were the 'unknown' bands opening for them: the first show it was Aerosmith just before they released their first album and the 2nd time it was Queen, making their first American tour with Mott. These bands freaked us out and we knew they would be big in time. Those are the kinds of bands Mott toured with. Enjoy! 🎸

[@jessegreen6138]

You forgot Sweet was also part of the Glam Rock craze.

[@DDPYogaBoomer]

It was an anthem for younger urban teens ( reference to concrete all around ) in 1972 who saw all their older brothers protest the war and become hippies. It was saying we are a new generation , you had the stones & beatles , we have David Bowie ( wrote the song ) & T-Rex . I was 14 in 1972 and it was an anthem for us to push all the older teens & hippies in their 20s off the corners so we could hang out ...

[@mogwahcrone3910]

Mott The Hoople?! So proud and happy for you!🤘🎸

[@mikephillips8810]

Others have mentioned they were part of the early-mid 1970s UK Glam Rock era, that David Bowie wrote the song for them as they were struggling at the time, and that Queen supported them on tour, and listed a number of their other songs - of these, my favourite is 'Roll Away The Stone' (especially the video from the UK's Top of the Pops TV show), a catchy glam rock/pop song. This band is very important in the history and development of the 1970s UK Glam Rock look and sound.

[@eximusic]

"I need TV when I got T Rex (sarcasm)" - best line ever. T Rex was the original glam rock band before David Bowie, Mott the Hoople, and Roxy Music. Funny that this song was the first to diss The Beatles and The Stones. Punk rock bands would follow with similar statements (like The Clash's "phony Beatlemania"). Of course I love The Beatles and The Stones and glam rock and punk. But each rock genre had to distance itself from the previous.

[@valeriekokenge659]

I always wondered if tv is Tony Visconti (Bowie’s long time friend, producer, and some times, band member.

[@eximusic]

@James Buckingham are you speaking both for Bowie and The Clash?

[@eximusic]

@@valeriekokenge659 or throttle valve. It could be that too.

[@eximusic]

@James Buckingham apparently you didn't read any interviews with The Clash back then

[@eximusic]

@James Buckingham I already did above. You're the one arguing about it if you recall. What you just did is called projecting.

[@dennisturocy8825]

Another great song from Mott the Hopple is All The way From Memphis. The lead singer, Ian Hunters,' heavy English accent is very noticeable in this song.

[@TalesOfTheRiverBank]

A good song IMHO, which seems better now than when I first heard it back then. Definitely takes me back to the early 70s and the beginning of that Glam Rock era in the UK when music was fun and artists didn't seem to take themselves too seriously. As others have already said, the song was written by David Bowie. The song I liked best by this band was "I wish I was your mother", followed by "(Do you remember) The Saturday Gigs".

[@LeftysLefty]

Lots of references to 70s music in this and this glam rock was totally on point in the mid 70s. This was huge and very meaningful back in the day I want this played at my funeral

[@robertmillar8246]

A great tune from this British band.. An artist you haven't heard of from Canada in 1978 his name is Gerry Doucette the song is called "Mama Let Him Play" a great rocking tune. Also from Canada they were on American Bandstand The Kings "This Beat Goes On/Switch Into Glide"

[@kimberlyjenkins725]

One of my favorite songs, as well as band.

[@827dusty]

IThis is one of my all-time favorite songs. It's from the early 1970s, by this British Rock Band. David Bowie did a version of this as well, but this is the best version. This was a huge hit song in both Great Britain and the United States.

[@markwilliams6394]

Bruce Dickenson redid this song too.

[@suevan50]

Bowie wrote this song 🎵.

[@markwilliams6394]

Yes, I already knew that but thanks cuz others may not have known.

[@jimmy-stourbridge-fc8980]

Bowie actually wrote the song & offered the song to them because he didn't want them to split up.

[@sallysharp3845]

David Bowie wrote this song for them, and I believe sang in it too.

[@TalesOfTheRiverBank]

He wrote the song. He did not sing this version of the song. That was Ian Hunter, now over 80years old and still preforming live. At least he was a couple of years ago and I haven't heard anything to say he isn' now, but post COVID who knows?

[@raymondmanderville505]

Try Neil Young’s “ Expecting to fly “

[@TalesOfTheRiverBank]

@Bamboo David Bowie was one of several backing vocalists.

[@lindseyholl8821]

My old man saw Alice Cooper open for Mott the Hoople and the Hollies back in 1972. He said nobody knew who Alice Cooper was at the time and Alice blew the stage up so much that after his set most people left afterward. My old man stayed and said it was the most fun he ever had at a concert. And he went to Woodstock!

[@janabraam7963]

You can definitely hear the Bowie influence in this. Love Mott the Hoople. Excellent part of our past!!! All the young dudes, carry the news to be what you are, dress like you want, and don't stereotype me to be what I look like. Spread the news to everyone to be who & what they are. David Bowie wrote this & he went through many stages of appearance changes. And it was OK.

[@winslow551]

Another classic song. The guitar player is Mick Ralphs who went on to form Bad Company.

[@jayg.9473]

Ian Hunter is the lead vocal. He has had many solo albums. One of my favs of his with great sax: You Nearly Did Me In.

[@primalengland]

This is the soundtrack to my youth. Love Mott the Hoople. The name is the name of a 1966 novel by American author Willard Manus.

[@mikegoodlock7821]

One of my favorite songs of all time.

[@jollyj3285]

A real classic rock tune!!! Love it!!

[@Terri6868]

David Bowie wrote this & performed this in his later concerts. Mott & Bowie performed this at Freddie’s Tribute concert check that out.

[@TalesOfTheRiverBank]

That is a great concert and Ian Hunter's performance is very, very good.

[@Terri6868]

@@TalesOfTheRiverBank Thanks I had forgotten his name.

[@victorjohnson7512]

The line about needing TV because they got T-Rex, refers to British glam-rock band T-Rex who had their own show on UK tv in the 70s.

[@cindyv1401]

OMGoodness Bring me all the way back 💯😍💯

[@leonardoD81]

Love this song on "Mott The Hoople Live" album. One of my favorite songs.

[@emcsquared8681]

Song was written by David Bowie and given to Mott the Hoople

[@darkandstormie]

I love, LOVE The Beatles & The Stones. But "All The Young Dudes" is the finest rock 'n roll album ever recorded. Thank You for reacting to this!!! ❤️

[@jennyhagemann5159]

I just blasted this on my bose yesterday, I am a TRUE 70s girl!!!!

[@DawnSuttonfabfour]

I feel ya @Jenny Hagemann Me too. Child f 60s, teen in 70s, young woman in 80s. The 70 were fun for me. I had a great time.

[@jennyhagemann5159]

@@DawnSuttonfabfour I wish could go back to those days

[@billn7183]

Great reaction, and a real nostalgia trip. This was big in my high school years. It grows on you after a few times listening.

[@susanthompson509]

They performed the song at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert, with so many different singers & musicians-David Bowie, Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson, Queen, lead singer from Def Lepperd & more. A lot of good memories.

[@laurainelindley9190]

Queen was the supporting band Mott the Hoople 1973/4 Sheffield England , I was there brill concert 👍👍🇬🇧

[@Cashcrop54]

Mott the Hoople was one of my favorites back in the 70's. They were fantastic live. Ian Hunter on lead vocals was so flamboyant on stage as was pretty much everybody in the group. Thanks for the video.

[@Seanriver316]

*I think I can tell this story because the statute of limitations has expired* Once upon a time, at a bar in Kent, Ohio, a friend of mine had won tickets on the radio to go see Mott the Hoople at a place called Filthy McNastys. It was a small live music venue, probably held about 150 people. It was nothing more, really, than a horseshoe shaped bar with a stage in the corner, about 3 ft. high. So, about 30 minutes before showtime, my friend and I are standing at the bar near the stage, lined up about 3 deep to get a drink. Someone next to us started the pre-game festivities by sharing a "clove cigarette" and handed it to me(yes, in the bar. It was shoulder-to-shoulder people and they couldnt tell where it was coming from or didnt care). I in turn, turned around and handed it to some short dude with curly hair, almost like a fro, wearing a brown leather vest, dark aviator sunglasses and drinking a beer. He partakes, hands it back to me, lifts up his sunglasses, smiles and says, "All we need now is some grams!" Then he went onstage and played. It was Ian Hunter. You should check out "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" and "All the Way From Memphis". Cheers! EDIT: this song was written by David Bowie. He offered it to QUEEN, but they declined. And then he remembered this new band he had seen, that he really liked. So he got in touch with their management and gave it to them.

[@bobwowk8440]

I used to go to Filthy McNastys. I had totally forgotten about that venue. Now I’m remembering Joe Walsh, James Gang, Jeff and Flash, and Michael Stanley. What a great time to be alive. Lucky us!

[@TimBee100]

I thought he was 6' tall.

[@bobwowk8440]

@@fredtello The Agora…coffee break concerts with Matt The Cat

[@jimmy-stourbridge-fc8980]

Once Bitten Twice Shy wasn't a Mott The Hoople song it was a Ian Hunter solo song.

[@sumonjamal1653]

Bruce Dickinson (lead singer of Iron Maiden) covered 'All the young dudes' for his solo album in 1990 🔥🔥🤘🤘 This track was written by David Bowie and given to his mates in Mott the Hoople in 1972. The band was very underrated in the 70's, but were a big influence on British rock bands like Queen, Def Leppard, Iron Maiden... Mott the Hoople was never a massive name in music outside of Europe... they had a US following. But a lot of UK bands in the 70's (Slade, The Sweet, Buzzcocks, Roxy Music, etc.) never got that worldwide acclaim that bands like Black Sabbath, Genesis, Queen, Thin Lizzy, etc. got.

[@mybrainhurts1856]

I like how ya'll delve a little deeper & seem to listen to your ppl!

[@stevenmurano7863]

Mott were pretty much a rough and tumble rock n roll band. Apparently their gigs often ended in riots...big followed mg, but they didn’t sell a lot of records. They were on the verge of breaking up. David Bowie was a fan and offered them a couple of songs to record. They turned down the first (suffragette city), then Bowie played them this one Ian Hunter (the singer) thought ‘is he out of his mind? This is incredible). It was a hit. Saved the band. Ian Hunter is an incredible songwriter himself and still out there doing it at 80 years old. There is a fantastic version of this on video from the Freddie Mercury tribute concert...Hunter; Bowie, mick Ronson (his last ever live performance), Queen, members of Def Lepoard. Very emotional performance. It may not make much sense but this became an anthem for this generation. Also...if you want to hear some ASS-KICKING rock n roll, the medley from Mott the Hoople live. 16 minutes of rnr bliss

[@leah1633]

I think it is just about how young people always seem to know everything and are always cool lol .... I was born in the 80s but do like the music of this song !

[@jonfazzone5125]

70’s Glam Rock Anthem. Mott The Hoople T-Rex David Bowie era Was Absolutely Amazing Time in Music

[@emilymartinez6961]

Another great party song from the 70's, makes me want to go back in time for a bit✌😉

[@jon-ei8iz]

You can just hear David Bowie singing this .typical sound he created for himself .Great song

[@tomfries5301]

This is a definitive Glam Rock song. Great genre from the 70s.

[@kensolar69]

This was Ian Hunter (Mott) doing a David Bowie song. Listen to Ian hunter do "Once Bitten, Twice Shy". Old school rock and roll at it's finest.

[@MRoyClark]

This was a major UK Glam hit written by David Bowie for the band. The vocal style is part of a Jazz and Folk-Rock tradition of describing situations people or narratives with rapid-fire syllables and little melodic movement over a bed of changing chords. Bob Dylan helped popularize the style while acts like Tom Petty kept it alive for years. The same sing/talk Jazz/Folk style had already branched off before this into the Gil Scott Heron/Last Poets path that led to Rap/Hip-Hop, as well, but the roots are quite similar. These particular lyrics use "jive talk", sci-fi imagery, and UK Jazz slang to describe a bunch of youth stereotypes what would alarm parents in the early 1970s and to show solidarity with the bored teenagers over the general state of authority and gloom that descended on the UK in the 1970s. Glam Rock was an early 1970s Pop movement that dominated the UK and much of Europe and Australia for the first half of the 1970s, while only managing to have a handful of major US hits in that time. Glam music (and fashion) music was mostly about youth, androgyny, outer space, 50s Rock'n'Roll, sex, and a vague sense of rebellion. It was largely guitar-based and upbeat Boogie-style Rock with lots of production flourishes or stylistic excess in arrangement or presentation. A lot of major artists got their big break in the Glam scene or flirted with the genres very early in their careers, like David Bowie, Elton John, Roxy Music, Queen, 10cc, Sparks, and ELO. There were also Glam-adjacent US acts, like KISS, Alice Cooper, Jobriath, New York Dolls, Iggy & The Stooges, and the soundtrack from the Rocky Horror (Picture) Show. Lou Reed had an international 1972 hit with the David Bowie-produced "Walk on the Wild Side" before slinking back into obscurity. Hell, even ᗅᗺᗷᗅ got their start working within the Glam idiom with their songs "Waterloo", "Ring Ring", and "S.O.S.". Other major Glam acts (who all had several hits apiece) include T. Rex, The Sweet, Slade, Gary Glitter, Alvin Stardust, Wizzard, Mud, Suzi Quatro, and of course, Mott the Hoople. And they had several. "All the Young Dudes" was their biggest hit (and only US hit), but they had other great songs like "Honaloochie Boogie", "All the Way to Memphis", and "Roll Away the Stone". If y'all can view the vocal style through the lens I described, try to give these other songs and artists a shot. I've seen y'all liking a lot of Glam stuff already, like "Bennie and The Jets", "Space Oddity", and "The Ballroom Blitz". Keep digging.

[@rapson672]

The album 'welcome to the club' has a couple I like, 'Standing in my light' & a harder edge ' Bastard ' a live album..

[@rajkanwal7327]

This band always wanted to record this David Bowie song -Bowie offered them other songs but the band held out for this one. A great version and one if the cornerstone records of my youth when we could all be dudes!!

[@frugalseverin2282]

This genre was called Glam Rock, anything went for clothing, makeup and hair. Bowie wrote this song and helped produce some of their music, he did the same for Lou Reed on his "Transformer" album from the same period. T-Rex was mentioned in the song, another Glam rock band. It was fun, care-free and let the freaks feel they belonged somewhere, the misunderstood, those on the outside looking in. The Kinks had an album and song called 'Misfits' that's as good a label as any.

[@Orange-Jumpsuit-Time]

You know some of the best songs don't have to spell everything out for you, they leave it up to the listeners imagination, that way people that listen to the song can form their own ideas of "what news". Foe instance take The Doors 'Riders On The Storm'.........."There's a killer on the road...his brain is squirmin like a toad...take a holiday......... let your children play...... Asia would be asking......Who'd he kill? What's the name of the road he's on?.......There's many different type of toads, what kind was that?.......What holiday, Fourth Of July? I know, maybe Presidents Day?.......Whose children? Are they playing in a park or maybe the street? Oh Lordy, please let it not be in a street, like maybe a freeway? I think you get the point, maybe?

[@oscarwilde6649]

Exactly! As I commented earlier, they made themselves look foolish in this reaction. They NEVER pull lyrics up & simply try to discern the song's meaning by reading said lyrics. They repeat bits & pieces of a song, including choral phrases/sentences, and attempt to lazily "decipher" the song's meaning that way lol. In one reaction, they even had the lyrics shown to them as the song played ("Gimme Shelter"), yet couldn't figure out that, "War, Children, It's just a shot away" was an obvious reference to the Vietnam War. A startled & confused Asia pondered, "I wonder what was going on at that time for them to write the statement, 'War, Children, It's just a shot away'"? Later in the song she was shocked by (and still bewildered), "Rape, Murder,...away". A simple Google query as to the year the song was made ('69) might have cleared up a few cerebral cobwebs.

[@kaydenpat]

@@woahblackbettybamalam Their people? Who are their people? The last I checked, your people violently stormed the Capitol to overturn an election because of their ignorance.

[@krisdoggett483]

@@oscarwilde6649 If you don't like their reaction channel don't watch, butthead.

[@Daisy_982]

That's what social media has done to their brains. Why not just en joy it people?

[@looneygardener]

Love this sound. Very Bowie.

[@cliffordwaterton3543]

lots of british references - anthem of my early teens - almost like a football chant - great memories.

[@alboystewart2212]

Lead singer is Ian Hunter .. Check out “ once bitten, Twice Shy “ 😉🎸

[@bobcorbin3294]

"The News" they are singing about is the end of the world according to the David Bowie song Five Years who also wrote this song. The song seems appropriate today. Two more great tracks from this band are All the way from Memphis and the oddly titled Death may be your Santa Claus.

[@raggmopp6164]

All The Way From Memphis & I'm A Cadillac -- Mott Classics

[@norkannen]

Totally loved Ian Hunter and Mott back in the days 🤗😎

[@Thundermuscle]

A guy I drank with in the pub was great friends with Ian Hunter. One night he was on stage with them playing a kazoo with the likes of Joe Elliot of Def Leppard :)

[@johnrectangle6034]

Saw them in Paris,France,at l'Olympia.There were scarecrows on stage,so when the lights were turned down,it was hard to distinguish the band members.It was at the end of Mott so Mick Ronson was the lead guitarist. The show was great,especially the singer ,Ian Hunter,always cool as ice,even with the uptempo tunes. First lead guitarist ,Mick Ralphs,left Mott to form Bad Company with Paul Rodgers.Congrats for your reaction!

[@tubemann57]

Best song ever written by Mr Bowie .it's a song of the time the 70s You had to been a teenager back then to understand the song .

[@dannycasson1551]

Another one of Bowie’s masterpieces. You definitely need to hear him sing it.

[@perryedwards4746]

Takes me back to school ... nioce.... In England i mean... Mott the Hoople , Roxy Music, Chicory Tipp, Slade, The Sweet, Wizard, Argent all great early brit pop

[@MisterWondrous]

If David Bowie was a band it would be Mott the Hoople. They were fashion forward friends pioneering the musical universe. Older folks would pick up on the references to T. Rex, Beatles, Stones, and grandfatherly music. Their name throws you off. As does the image on the album. Neither suggests how revolutionary they actually were.

[@mikephillips8810]

I'd agree with you that 'if David Bowie was a band' back then it'd be these guys - or Roxy Music.

[@MisterWondrous]

@@mikephillips8810 Yes. Or Roxy.

[@cynthiadaw131]

It has a hypnotic melody that has a haunting melody in the chorus part too!! The song is real catchy that has you wanting more. First time hearing it I felt all those things I mentioned and felt to as if " back in the days" if you will and had my mind thinking 1969's and so on. Nice song!!

[@gregjones861]

This song, their first bonafide hit, isn't typical of their sound at all. Listen to their earlier stuff like "Rock And Roll Queen" or "Thunderbuck Ram" to be bowled over by their raw rocking sound, and later tracks like "All The Way From Memphis ", "Violence", "Marionette", "Hymn For The Dudes" and I think you'll find them much more to your liking.

[@TalesOfTheRiverBank]

Apart from the others you mention I think "Marionette" is a really good song.

[@Barb5001]

As the story goes.. They were searching for a name for their band There was book and one of the main character's name was Mott. . One chapter was titled "Mott The Hoople". They just just liked the sound of that. BTW, “hoople” is English slang that dates back to 1928 and means a fool or stupid person.

[@hifijohn]

One of the first songs where the lyrics are both sung and spoken.

[@jogischulz2576]

Real Mott the Hoople fans love their more heavier rock albums, later they became Glamrocker, The Clash were big fans of early Mott the Hoople.

[@johnthegreek5836]

Damn another great song, you two are playing some good ones tonight I haven’t heard this in a long time

[@phillipharrison2836]

Bowie also produced the 'All the young dudes' album as well as writing the title track and cameoed with sax on a few of the songs. They also covered Lou Reed on this with 'Sweet Jane'. Another good song from this album is 'Ready for love'.

[@MrFiumefreddo]

Ian Hunter is the singer in this tune.

[@garymac7127]

This is considered one of the greatest rock songs of all time loved by rockstars themselves, you have to watch it live to understand.

[@woahblackbettybamalam]

They used to tour with Queen

[@t.r.1708]

Spoken singing is known as “sprechgesang” (German) or “Parlando” (Italian). Carry the news!

[@dantean]

Written for them by David Bowie. A very, very English band not always immediately understandable to us in the States. Not just because of the accent but a lot of the references, as well. Like the early Who before they recorded the album "Tommy."

[@mellie7583]

Great song I love it

[@danielkesselring9172]

You guys are great.. B you’re deep and intuitive bro.. I dig it 💪🏻..

[@cletushouse906]

Got to see them open for KISS. Damn good show. Don’t remember the year, just a long, long time ago.

[@charlesoneill8389]

They were gigantic!

[@johnnygiganto8209]

Hoopla was part of the Glam Rock scene from the UK in the early 70s. It was more image than musicianship.

[@ronaldmilner8932]

Asia I love the expression on your face! You two are the best reactors!!

[@jerrydavis1696]

Some great tunes, All The Way From Memphis, Cleveland Rocks used as theme song of the Drew Carey Shoe

[@robertweilmuenster1178]

All the Way To Memphis live is a great tune by them....

[@uMe_underground]

The singer with his sunglasses and his hair, he look cool. The song is a David Bowie song.

[@Masherbrum]

This was originally supposed to go on Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. The dudes were carrying the same news as the newscaster was carrying in the song "Five Years". The news is that the Earth had only five years left to live. This is an apocalyptical tune. Bowie offered up Suffragette City and they declined. But from 1972-1975? Ian Hunter had the formula of hitmaking down pat.

[@Masherbrum]

Also. Their cut The Golden Age of Rock & Roll is fantastic.

[@dalenikolitch8338]

Another Good One✌😎 Thank u🤩

[@chrisnicol1644]

MOTT..... Their 1974 live album kicks major ass...