Talk:Diamond Dogs

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Edited to add that first track quotes Rogers and HArt song. Acknowledged only on later issues (no doubt after copyright protests!)

Good call whoever you are, in fact I worked this into the "Future Legend" article but didn't retrofit it here for some reason. Rejigged your edit to better reflect how it appeared on the original album - it's actually later CD issues that ignore it I believe, not the other way round. Cheers, Ian Rose 03:43, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Album credit

Interestingly the original vinyl album is credited to "Bowie" rather than "David Bowie" - the name David isn't mentioned anywhere on the sleeve or label. Is this also the case for CD reissues? 217.155.20.163 21:12, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes and no. The CD reissue covers are the same as the original LP, which just says 'Bowie', but the spine of the Rykodisc and EMI reissues say 'David Bowie', as does the disc itself from Ryko (don't own the EMI remaster, can't say for sure there).

Never thought it particularly noteworthy myself but there it is... Cheers, Ian Rose 22:22, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

I think a few things carried the "Bowie" designation in those days - maybe the Knock On Wood single, for example. Possibly a result of his meeting with up Charlie. BTLizard 13:25, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sweet Thing Lyrics

I am investigating the history of where David Bowie got the lyrics to this song in particular as so very many of the lines are exactly worded in S. Delaney's first book, Dhalgren, published in 1973 out of New York I believe. Also, Delaney, I have been told, took approximately 10 years to produce this book, making the wording within it much, much older than the lyrics written in Bowie's Sweet Thing. Should be interesting. Both, it seems, come from Theater of Cruelty and/or Theater of the Absurd genre. —Preceding unsigned comment added by QStick (talk • contribs) 01:01, 5 February 2008 (UTC)