Description
Side 1
- “Future Legend”
- “Diamond Dogs”
- “Sweet Thing”
- Candidate”
- “Sweet Thing (reprise)”
- “Rebel Rebel”
Side 2
- “Rock ‘n’ Roll with Me”
- “We Are the Dead>”
- “1984”
- “Big Brother”
- “Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family”
The cover art features Bowie as a striking half-man, half-dog grotesque painted by Belgian artist Guy Peellaert. It was controversial as the full painting clearly showed the hybrid’s genitalia. Very few copies of this original cover made their way into circulation at the time of the album’s release. According to the record-collector publication Goldmine price guides, these albums have been among the most expensive record collectibles of all time, as high as thousands of US dollars for a single copy. The genitalia were quickly airbrushed out for the 1974 LP’s gatefold sleeve, although the original artwork (and another rejected cover featuring Bowie in a sombrero cordobés holding onto a ravenous dog, an image captured by Terry O’Neill) was included in subsequent Rykodisc/EMI re-issues.
