Blue Jean
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| Single by David Bowie | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album Tonight | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| B-side | Dancing with the Big Boys | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Released | September 1984 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Recorded | Le Studio, Morin-Heights, Quebec, Canada, May 1984 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Length | 3:08 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | EMI America – EA181 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | David Bowie | |||||||||||||||||||||
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"Blue Jean" is a song written and recorded by David Bowie for his sixteenth studio album Tonight. One of only two tracks on the album to be written entirely by Bowie, it was released as a single ahead of the album and charted within the Top 10 in the UK and the United States, peaking at No. 6 and No. 8, respectively. The song is loosely inspired by Eddie Cochran.
Following the commercial success of Bowie's previous album, Let's Dance, its singles and the Serious Moonlight Tour, "Blue Jean" was launched with a 21-minute short film, Jazzin' for Blue Jean, directed by Julien Temple. The song performance segment from this was also used as a more conventional music video. The film won the 1985 Grammy Award for "Best Video, Short form" (Later renamed "Best Music Video"), which proved to be Bowie's only competitive Grammy Award during his career.
The song would remain in Bowie's live repertoire for the rest of his career, being performed on tours in 1987, 1990 and 2004.
Interviewed in 1987 and asked to compare a track like "Time Will Crawl" to "Blue Jean," Bowie said "'Blue Jean' is a piece of sexist rock 'n roll. [laughs] It's about picking up birds. It's not very cerebral, that piece."BBC reviewer Chris Jones criticised the song in his appraisal of Best of Bowie in 2002, arguing "Blue Jean barely exists, so formulaic is it."
There are 3 versions of the video:
Pegg, Nicholas, The Complete David Bowie, Reynolds & Hearn Ltd, 2000,
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