BOWIE ~ TEENAGE WILDLIFE ~ LIVE 95

David Bowie Performing on the OUTSIDE tour at The Point, Dublin, Ireland 24/11/1995 “Teenage Wildlife“ is a song written by David in 1980 for the album Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps). Running at almost seven minutes, the song was the longest track on Scary Monsters, and Bowie’s longest composition since “Station to Station“ four years prior in 1976. The song’s original title was “It Happens Everyday“. Producer Tony Visconti said “Instead of singing ’Not another teenage wildlife’ [Bowie] would sing ’It happens everyda-a-ay.’ Against a musical backdrop that owed much to his classic song “Heroes“, including textural guitar work from both Robert Fripp and Chuck Hammer, and adds wandering phrases following his lyrical paragraphs, Bowie appeared to take aim squarely at his post-punk artistic godchildren, particularly Gary Numan broken-nosed mogul are you One of the new wave boys Same old thing in brand new drag Comes swee