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I can do piano, I can do guitar, I can do rock, I can do whatever.’ It was a songwriting album.” Plus, as Bolder puts it: “He’d had four flops already, so it was was kind of now-or-never situation.” The difference between ‘Hunky Dory’ and ‘…Ziggy…’, said Bowie to Ken Scott, was that it was gonna be “more rock’n’roll”. “‘Hunky Dory’,” says Woody, “wasn’t about playing live.” It was about Bowie making the transition “from folk to rock’n’roll, saying, ‘I’ll show you I can write. The sessions were quick, but Bowie decided not to tour the album because he had ideas for the next one. “And then on Monday we did it, which was quite nerve-wracking.” The nascent band stepped up to the mark though, and indeed, Bowie dug the trio’s vibes so much he kept them all to record ‘Hunky Dory’ at Trident Studios in Soho, central London, which they recorded with in-house producer Ken Scott, a man with The Beatles on his CV. “I had to learn 12 songs on Sunday afternoon,” he says. Drummer Woody and guitarist Ronson had played on ‘The Man Who Sold The World’, but it hadn’t gone well. Bowie’s first three albums – 1967’s ‘David Bowie’, 1969’s ‘Space Oddity’ and 1970’s ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ – tanked, even though they were all brilliant, and he was gearing up to write ‘Hunky Dory’. Rewind to June 1971 and this influence over pop music seemed unlikely. “ Became the special man” – ‘Ziggy Stardust’ The man who invented Brett Anderson’s slur, Björk’s theatricality and Morrissey’s showmanship, and made Ian Curtis want to be in a band. This is the story of David Bowie’s fifth album, ‘The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars’, the masterwork that would immortalise him as the world’s best pop star. It was literally overnight success.” Success that changed the four men forever, propelled by the songwriting genius of David Bowie. “David was desperate to get us on Top Of The Pops,” says Bolder.