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Day After VD VD: "All the Young Dudes" Explained

February 15, 2009 | Vetting explained

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The question by now should really be, “What can’t be explained by one of Professor Cueball’s Venn diagrams?” The David Bowie penned 1972 Mott the Hoople hit "All the Young Dudes" has confusing lyrics to say the least, this perhaps at least partially the result of Bowie’s complicated sexuality at the time. Bowie’s sexual orientation, sadly, cannot yet be easily explained with a Venn diagram. But the chorus sure can be:

 

All the young dudes

Carry the news

Boogaloo dudes

Carry the news

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