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- Written by
- David Bowie
- Language
- English
- Released on
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Oh You Pretty Thing
Single
April 1971 - Chart placings
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#12 in United Kingdom
- Tags
- hit song
- Comments
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David Bowie played piano on this version. Noone replaced Bowie's line "The Earth is a bitch" with "The Earth is a beast", in a performance that NME editors Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray opined to be "one of rock and roll's most outstanding examples of a singer failing to achieve any degree of empathy whatsoever with the mood and content of a lyric".
The song was titled "Oh You Pretty Thing" on its first pressing. Later repressings added the missing "s". - Rating
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- Licensing
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