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Young girl, they call them the diamond dogs"
David Bowie poses for a promotional shoot of his 1974 album 'Diamond Dogs'. Taken by world-renowned celebrity photographer Terry O'Neill, the striking image shows Bowie at his elegant best.
Bowie retired Ziggy Stardust and his Spiders from Mars just one year earlier and, in his temporary guise as Halloween Jack, Bowie used 'Diamond Dogs' as his Glam swan-song and a break with his past. As author David Buckley noted, it was "the sort of move which would come to define his career, Bowie jumped the glam-rock ship just in time, before it drifted into a blank parody of itself." Not for the first time, Bowie was miles ahead of the game.
The inspiration for 'Diamond Dogs' was George Orwell's '1984' and although the writer's estate denied him rights to use the novel as the album title, the LP contained several tracks that became rock and roll staples and Bowie live favorites for years to come, notably 'Rebel, Rebel' and the title track itself.
The LP's cover art featured a half-dog, half-Bowie beast, which stirred controversy as the painting clearly showed the hybrid's genitalia. The album's subsequent success in America - Bowie's first real commercial smash in the USA - was partly ensured by retouching the sleeve to remove any hint of the canine genitalia from David's rear-end!
"Keep cool
Diamond dogs rule, ok"
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