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"Kooks" is a song written by David Bowie from 1971 on the album Hunky Dory. Bowie wrote this song to his newborn son Duncan Jones. He was listening to a Neil Young record at home as he got the news of the arrival of his son. The song was a pastiche of early 1970s Neil Young. British indie band The Kooks named themselves after the song. Duncan Jones became a successful film and advertising director. In 2009 his first full-length movie, a sci-fi thriller called Moon, was released.^[1]

Live versions

• It was recorded for the BBC In Concert radio show with John Peel 3 June 1971 and broadcast 20 June 1971. In 2000 this was released on the Bowie at the Beeb album.

Cover versions

• Robbie Williams - Bonus track on "Old Before I Die" single
• Smashing Pumpkins - Parsian Black Session
• Danny Wilson - Single/David
• Tindersticks - Bowie Songbook
• Andrea Perry - Spiders from Venus: Indie Women Artists and Female-Fronted Bands Cover David Bowie (2003)
• The Abbreviations BP - Hero: The Main Man Records Tribute to David Bowie (2007)

References

• Pegg, Nicholas, The Complete David Bowie, Reynolds & Hearn Ltd, 2000, ISBN 1-903111-14-5