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Day-In Day-Out

"Day-In Day-Out"
A picture of David Bowie jumping in front of a colorful room full of art and props.
Cover artwork used to commercialize 12" editions of the single.
Single by David Bowie
from the album Never Let Me Down
B-side "Julie"
Released 23 March 1987 (1987-03-23)
Format
Recorded Autumn 1986
Mountain Studios
(Montreux, Switzerland)
Genre R&B
Length 4:38 (Album version)
4:14 (Single version)
Label EMI
Writer(s) David Bowie
Producer(s)
David Bowie singles chronology
"When the Wind Blows"
(1986)
"Day-In Day-Out"
(1987)
"Time Will Crawl"
(1987)
Music video
"Day-In Day-Out" on YouTube
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic Favorable
Pitchfork Unfavorable

"Day-In Day-Out" is a song recorded by English singer David Bowie, serving as the opening track for his seventeenth studio album, Never Let Me Down (1987). It was issued as a single on 23 March 1987 ahead of the record's release. The recording was solely written by Bowie, while production was handled by him along with David Richards. An R&B track, "Day-In Day-Out" criticizes the treatment of the homeless in the United States at that time, and deals with the depths a young mother has to sink to feed her child.

An accompanying music video for the single was shot in 1987, being banned by some stations as a result of its content, although it was still nominated for a 1987 MTV Video Music award in the category of "Best Male Video". Commercially, "Day-In Day-Out" was the most successful single from Never Let Me Down, peaking at number 17 in the United Kingdom as well as charting within the top 40 in several other countries.

"Day-In Day-Out" was written by Bowie at his home in Montreux, Switzerland, along with most of the rest of Never Let Me Down in mid-1986. It was recorded in the autumn of 1986 at Mountain Studios in the same city. The singer penned the song out of concern for the treatment of the homeless in the United States, a foray into social commentary that he would further pursue with his grunge-precursor band Tin Machine two years later.

Musically, the recording is an R&B song, being reminiscent of some of the singer's R&B work in the 1970s. One author said that it is "an example of Bowie's strength in the R&B genre." The lyrics of the song were compared by one writer to those of Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" (1980), and deal with the depths a young mother has to sink to feed her child. Bowie claimed the song was selected as the lead-off single for Never Let Me Down "more as a statement of energy" about the album, as opposed to directly trying for a chart-topping single. It was released on 23 March 1987 by EMI on multiple 7" and 12" single formats, featuring B-side single "Julie". A video EP was also distributed that year. The single was further added to several compilations, including Bowie: The Singles 1969-1993 (1993), The Singles Collection (1993), Bowie – The Video Collection (1993), Best of Bowie (2002), The Platinum Collection (2005) and The Best of David Bowie 1980–1987 (2007).


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