Kooks (song)

"Kooks" is a song written by English singer-songwriter 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.[2]

"Kooks"
Song by David Bowie
from the album Hunky Dory
Released17 December 1971
RecordedSummer 1971
StudioTrident, London
Genre
Length2:53
LabelRCA
Songwriter(s)David Bowie
Producer(s)Ken Scott, David Bowie
Official audio
"Kooks (2015 Remaster)" on YouTube

Live versions

  • Before the studio recording of the song was made, it was recorded for the BBC In Concert radio show with John Peel, on 3 June 1971 (broadcast on 20 June 1971). In 2000 this recording was released on the Bowie at the Beeb album.
  • The song was recorded again for the BBC "Sounds of the 70s" radio show with Bob Harris on 21 September 1971 (broadcast on 4 October 1971).

Personnel

  • The first three lines of the song ("Will you stay in our lovers' story / If you stay, you won't be sorry / 'Cause we believe in you") are used as a repeated motif in Miranda July's 2015 novel The First Bad Man
  • The British indie band The Kooks named themselves after the song.
  • The song appears in the Futurama episode "Children of a Lesser Bog".

References

Notes

  1. Pitchfork Staff (23 June 2004). "The 100 Best Albums of the 1970s". Pitchfork. Retrieved 16 April 2023. ...and primitive twee-pop ("Kooks," "Fill Your Heart").
  2. Kevin Cann (2010). Any Day Now - David Bowie: The London Years: 1947-1974: p.218

Other sources

  • Pegg, Nicholas (0200), The Complete David Bowie, Reynolds & Hearn Ltd, ISBN 1-903111-14-5
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