Kooks (song)

"Kooks"
Song by David Bowie from the album Hunky Dory
Released 17 December 1971
Recorded Trident Studios, London, summer 1971
Genre Pop rock, folk rock
Length 2:53
Label RCA Records
Writer David Bowie
Producer Ken Scott, David Bowie
Hunky Dory track listing

"Life on Mars?"
(4)
"Kooks"
(5)
"Quicksand"
(6)

"Kooks" is a song written by David Bowie, which appears on his 1971 album Hunky Dory. Bowie wrote this song to his newborn son Duncan Jones. The song was a pastiche of early 1970s Neil Young because Bowie was listening to a Neil Young record at home on 30 May 1971 when he got the news of the arrival of his son.[1]

British indie band The Kooks named themselves after the song.

Live versions

Personnel

Cover versions

David Bowie "Kooks" (1971)
17 second sample from David Bowie's "Kooks".

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References

  1. Kevin Cann (2010). Any Day Now - David Bowie: The London Years: 1947-1974: p.218

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