In 1972, rock band Mott the Hoople released a track that would go on to become a career-defining hit — and one that would save the rockers' career.
The song "All the Young Dudes" was put out into the world on July 28, 1972, with the studio album of the same name following less than a year later. Written by David Bowie, the glam rock hit has been credited for giving the band a new lease of life, with the five-piece reportedly on the verge of breaking up, before Bowie offered the band the track.
"I literally wrote it within an hour or so of hearing their breakup was imminent," Bowie recalled, per Far Out. "They were a fair little band, and I thought, 'This will be an interesting thing to do, let’s see if I can write them a song and keep them together."
It was the first song that the legendary British musician had written for someone else, and it undoubtedly became a hit, just as Bowie had suspected. "All the Young Dudes" soared to No. 3 on the U.K. Official Singles Chart, spending 11 weeks on the chart in total. In the United States, the track hit No. 37 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's biggest hit in the U.S. Rolling Stone went on to rank the track at No. 166 on its list of "500 greatest songs of all time".
When Bowie first offered the track by playing it on acoustic guitar, the band knew that it had a winner on its hands.
"The first thing [I thought] was I can sing this. And the second thing was like I’ve never been behind a hit before," Mott the Hoople frontman Ian Hunter recalled of the track in a 2003 interview on the Howard Stern Show. "And it’s a funny feeling because nobody else has ever heard this you know. And then I’m sitting there with the band you know and we’re listening to this and it’s obvious, isn’t it?".
Following Mott the Hoople's release, Bowie recorded and released his own version of "All the Young Dudes" in 1995 and would often perform the track live in concert.
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