| "1984" | ||||
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:David-Bowie-1984nineteen-eig-168543.jpg) A-side label of the Japan vinyl single | ||||
| Single by David Bowie | ||||
| from the album Diamond Dogs | ||||
| B-side | "Queen Bitch" (US) "Lady Grinning Soul" (Japan) | |||
| Released | July 1974 | |||
| Recorded | January 1974 | |||
| Studio | Trident, London | |||
| Genre | Funk rock | |||
| Length | 3:27 | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
| Songwriter(s) | David Bowie | |||
| Producer(s) | David Bowie | |||
| David Bowie singles chronology | ||||
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"1984" is a song by the English musician David Bowie, from his 1974 album Diamond Dogs, released as a single in the United States and Japan.[1] Written in 1973, it was inspired by George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and, like much of its parent album, originally intended for a stage musical based on the novel, which was never produced because permission was refused by Orwell's widow Sonia.[2]
- ^ Pegg 2016, p. 199.
- ^ Carr & Murray 1981, p. 64.