Hunky Dory (2015

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Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description. Keyboardist Rick Wakeman, noted session musician and member of the Strawbs, [3] plays piano on the album; [19] he previously played Mellotron on David Bowie (1969). After the hard rock sound of The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory features a stylistic shift from Bowie towards art pop and melodic pop rock.

A few months after he had terminated Bowie's contract with Mercury, Defries showcased the newly recorded Hunky Dory to multiple labels in the US, including New York City's RCA Records. According to some reports, per biographer Nicholas Pegg, it was Defries who rejected Kemp, because of his "receding hairline". The RCA limited stamp on bottom rear left of cover has the ghosting behind it, as does RCA logo bottom right. Many biographers and reviewers have agreed that Hunky Dory marked the beginning of Bowie's artistic success.Following the release of his 1970 album, The Man Who Sold the World, Bowie took time off from recording and touring. Rick Quinn described the songs in PopMatters as a fusion of "British pop, orchestral works, art-rock, folk and ballads" that emerge to form glam rock.

Spitz states that "hunky-dory" is an English slang term that means everything is right in the world. Hunky Dory is solid from beginning to end, thanks to the fine musicians, Bowie's excellent songwriting, and the artist's now-mature sense of performance. The same year, Consequence of Sound ranked the album number 18 on their list of the 100 greatest albums of all time. Bolder described recording with Bowie for the first time as a "nerve-wracking experience", saying: "When that red light came on in the studio it was, God, in at the deep end of what!Very Good: The record has obviously been played many times, but displays no major deterioration in sound quality, despite noticeable surface marks and the occasional light scratch. Music journalist Peter Doggett concurs, regarding Hunky Dory as "a collective of attractively accessible pop songs, through which Bowie tested out his feelings about the nature of stardom and power".