Future Legend

"Future Legend"
Song by David Bowie
from the album Diamond Dogs
Released24 May 1974[1]
RecordedEarly 1974
StudioOlympic, London
GenreGlam rock
Length1:10
LabelRCA
Songwriter(s)David Bowie
"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" by Richard Rodgers
Producer(s)David Bowie

"Future Legend" is the opening track of David Bowie's 1974 album Diamond Dogs. Its spoken narrative introduces the album's setting in a "glitter apocalypse".[2]

Music and lyrics

Barely a minute in length, "Future Legend" begins with a distorted howl and features Bowie's spoken-word vision of a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, now renamed Hunger City. He describes "fleas the size of rats" and "rats the size of cats", and compares the humanoid inhabitants to "packs of dogs".

Halfway through the narration, the Richard Rodgers' tune "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" strikes up (the song and its composer appear on the track list of the original vinyl album but this credit is omitted on CD releases). "Future Legend" then transitions into the album's title track with the cry, "This ain't rock and roll. This is genocide!"

The narrative has been compared to the writings of William Burroughs, particularly such phrases as "a baying pack of people" in Naked Lunch.[3]

Other uses

A backing tape of the track was played as the lead-in to "Diamond Dogs" at some performances on Bowie's North American tour in 1974.[4]

A Page containing the lyrics hanging in the window of West Village record store Rebel Rebel following its shutdown in 2016 due to rising rent prices. A photo of Bowie, who died earlier that year, hangs to the side. Note the words "BLEECKER STREET" superimposed over "Love-Me Avenue"

Notes

  1. ^ "Diamond Dogs album is forty today". Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
  2. ^ Carr, Roy; Murray, Charles Shaar (1981). Bowie: An Illustrated Record. Avon. p. 14. ISBN 0-380-77966-8.
  3. ^ Buckley, David (1999). Strange Fascination: David Bowie - The Definitive Story. Virgin Books. p. 213. ISBN 0-7535-0457-X.
  4. ^ Pegg, Nicholas (2000). The Complete David Bowie. Reynolds & Hearn Ltd. p. 80. ISBN 1-903111-73-0.

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