All the Young Dudes by Mott the Hoople

All the Young Dudes, Mott the Hoople's fifth studio album, came out in 1972 on CBS (Columbia in North America) after three years on Island, and it's the record that saved them. The band were ready to quit when David Bowie talked them into keeping going, handed them the glam-rock title song he had written for them and then produced the album, cut at Olympic Studios.

"All the Young Dudes" became their first hit, a slow, swaggering anthem with Ian Hunter's voice sneering and tender at once, and the rest of the record rides that same feeling: Hunter on vocals and piano, Mick Ralphs's guitar, Verden Allen's organ, Overend Watts on bass and Dale Griffin on drums, all ragged glamour and street-level strut. It turned a band on the ropes into contenders, and more success came with Mott the following year.

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