| "Look Back in Anger" | ||||||||||
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| Single by David Bowie | ||||||||||
| from the album Lodger | ||||||||||
| Released | 20 August 1979 (US) | |||||||||
| Format | 7" single | |||||||||
| Recorded | Mountain Studios, Montreux, September 1978; The Record Plant, New York, March 1979 | |||||||||
| Genre | Rock | |||||||||
| Length | 3:08 | |||||||||
| Label | RCA Records PB 11724 (US) |
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| Producer | David Bowie, Tony Visconti | |||||||||
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"Look Back in Anger" is a song written by David Bowie and Brian Eno for the album Lodger (1979). It concerns "a tatty 'Angel Of Death'",[1 ] and features a guitar solo by Carlos Alomar.
RCA Records was unsure if America was ready for the sexual androgyny of "Boys Keep Swinging",[2] the lead-off single from Lodger in most territories, and "Look Back in Anger" was issued instead.[3] The B-side was another track from Lodger called "Repetition", a story of domestic violence. The single failed to chart.
David Mallet directed a video for the song, featuring Bowie in an artist's studio. The scenario was based on the conclusion of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Grey, as a self-portrait of the protagonist grows more handsome while he himself physically decays.[4]
"Look Back in Anger" has a mixed reputation among Bowie commentators. NME critics Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray have described it as "probably the low point" of the album,[1 ] while Nicholas Pegg considers it "one of Lodger's dramatic highlights".[3]
Beyond the shared title, the song has nothing to do with the John Osborne play Look Back in Anger.
The song has been performed on the 1983/84 "Serious Moonlight" Tour and was reworked in the mid-90s as a heavy rock song for the "Outside" and "Earthling" tours.
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