Bowie himself was quick to recognise the record’s limitations. “It was not a concept album,” he told Robert Hilburn in September 1974. “It was a collection of things. And I didn’t have a band. So that ...
When David Bowie first began work on 1974's Diamond Dogs, he intended for it to be a conceptual album based on George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. For those unfamiliar, that novel, first published ...