The album cover for \"Hunky Dory\". The original US LP bore no title or artist credit.
Background
Coming off the critically acclaimed but commercially weak The Man Who Sold the World, David Bowie was at a crossroads in his career. His publishing contract had expired, the backing musicians from the previous album (including producer and bassist Tony Visconti and guitarist Mick Ronson) left Bowie’s orbit due to personal conflicts with the singer, and he was spending less time in the studio. With a new manager in tow (Tony Defries), he signed a new contract with Chrysalis Records after an executive at the label fell in love with his demo of “Holy Holy”. The final version of the song released in January 1971 was, once again, a flop.
Due to the larger success of The Man Who Sold the World in the United States, Mercury (Bowie’s then current record label) sent the singer on a promotional radio tour of the country in February of 1971. The trip inspired Bowie to write tribute songs and homages to three American icons: Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, and Lou Reed of The Velvet Underground. All 3 of these songs would be present on Bowie’s next album. After returning home, Bowie began to compose new songs on the piano, rather than the guitar as he usually did. This choice of instrument would help shape the sound of the upcoming record. One of the first songs that came out of this writing session was “Oh! You Pretty Things”. Bowie recorded a demo of the song, which was passed on to Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits fame. Noone recorded his version of the song (with the line “The Earth is a bitch” changed to the more radio-friendly “The Earth is a beast” and Bowie playing piano) and took it to #12 on the UK charts in the spring of 1971. The song represented Bowie’s first hit song as a songwriter since 1969’s “Space Oddity”. Noone praised Bowie as Britain’s best songwriter since Lennon and McCartney in an interview with NME magazine.
Defries worked to separate Bowie from his contract with Mercury Records, as he felt the label hadn’t done the singer justice financially. While Mercury was willing to renew the contract, Defries pressured them to terminate it by threatening to deliver a piss-poor album to them. Defries paid off Bowie’s debts to the label, in exchange for the masters to *David
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
When I got home, they were still there.
I won't be doing that today!
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Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
There hasn't been a post all year!
You take away their little brooms
It was about a weak back.
It’s pronounced “Noel.”
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
Nothing, it just waved
Him: I can explain everything!
(It's his best joke yet I think)
But nobody ever mentions his sister, Onya, who invented the starter pistol.
Bob
