Future Legend Lyrics

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The spoken introduction to David Bowie’s 1974 album, Diamond Dogs, sets the concept album’s post-apocalyptic scene. It smoothly transitions into the title track.

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What did David Bowie say about "Future Legend"?
Genius Answer

Bowie described the concept in 1993:

I had in my mind this kind of half Wild Boys, Nineteen Eighty-Four world, and there were these ragamuffins, but they were a bit more violent than ragamuffins. I guess they staggered through from Clockwork Orange too. They’d taken over this barren city, this city that was falling apart. They’d been able to break into windows of jewellers and things, so they’d dressed themselves up in furs and diamonds, but they had snaggle teeth – really filthy, kind of like violent Oliver Twists. It was a take on, what if those guys had gone malicious? If Fagin’s gang had gone absolutely ape-shit?

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Lead guitar
Mellotron
Moog synthesizer
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Recorded At
Olympic Studios, Barnes, Richmond upon Thames, Outer London, England
Release Date
April 24, 1974
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