
Claire Tole-Moir
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Bowie's remark was indeed prescient. His composition, 'All The Young Dudes', recorded by the band after they had turned down 'Suffragette City', was released in July 1972 and reached No.3 in the UK singles chart. It came about after Bowie had learned from Mott's bassist, Peter (Overend) Watts, that the band were thinking of splitting due to lack of commercial success.
The song has become something of a rock anthem. In 2010, 'Rolling Stone' magazine ranked it 256 in their 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time, and the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame listed it in 1995 it its 500 Songs That Shaped Rock.