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Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

The album that closed his 1970s run, with Ashes to Ashes, Fashion and Robert Fripp's guitar.
David Bowie, 1980

Released
12 September 1980
Recorded
February to April 1980
Studio
Power Station, New York, and Good Earth Studios, London
Label
RCA
Producer
David Bowie, Tony Visconti
Length
45:37

Bowie and Visconti recorded it in New York and London in the spring of 1980. Fripp, Pete Townshend, Chuck Hammer, Roy Bittan and Andy Clark all played on it. It reached number one in the UK and number twelve in the US. Melody Maker called it an eerily impressive stride into the 80s. The lead single was Ashes to Ashes, and Kingdom Come is a cover of a Tom Verlaine song.

Track listing

  1. It's No Game (No. 1)4:20
  2. Up the Hill Backwards3:15
  3. Scary Monsters5:12
  4. Ashes to Ashes4:25
  5. Fashion4:49
  6. Teenage Wildlife6:56
  7. Scream Like a Baby3:35
  8. Kingdom Come3:45
  9. Because You're Young4:54
  10. It's No Game (No. 2)4:22

More from David Bowie

Space Oddity (1969), Hunky Dory (1971), The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), Aladdin Sane (1973), Diamond Dogs (1974), Young Americans (1975), Station to Station (1976), Low (1977), "Heroes" (1977), Lodger (1979), Let's Dance (1983), Heathen (2002), The Next Day (2013), Blackstar (2016)

Sources

  1. Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), Wikipedia