On September 12, 1980, “RCA” label released “Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)” the fourteenth David Bowie studio album. It was recorded February – April 1980, at “The Power Station” in London, and was produced by David Bowie and Tony Visconti. In 2000, “Q” magazine ranked “Scary Monsters” at number 30 in its list of the “100 Greatest British Albums Ever”. In 2013, “NME” magazine ranked the album at number 381 on its list of “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time”. The album was certified Platinum in Canada by “Music Canada”, and in UK by the “BPI”.
Personnel:
- David Bowie– lead and backing vocals, keyboards, saxophone, engineer
- Pete Townshend– guitar
- Tony Visconti– acoustic guitar, backing vocals, engineer
- Carlos Alomar– guitars
- Chuck Hammer– guitar synthesizer
- Robert Fripp– guitar
- Roy Bittan– piano
- Andy Clark– synthesizer
- George Murray– bass guitar
- Dennis Davis– percussion
- Michi Hirota – voice
- Lynn Maitland – backing vocals
- Chris Porter – backing vocals
- Larry Alexander, Jeff Hendrickson – engineer assistant
- Peter Mew, Nigel Reeve –mastering
Track listing:
All tracks by David Bowie, except where noted.
- It’s No Game (No. 1) – music and lyrics by Bowie, Japanese translation by Hisahi Miura
- Up the Hill Backwards
- Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
- Ashes to Ashes
- Fashion
- Teenage Wildlife
- Scream Like a Baby
- Kingdom Come – Tom Verlaine
- Because You’re Young
- It’s No Game (No. 2)
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