The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell
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| Single by David Bowie | ||||
| from the album Hours | ||||
| Released | 20 September 1999 in Australia and Japan. | |||
| Format | CD single | |||
| Recorded | Seaview, Bermuda | |||
| Genre | Hard Rock | |||
| Length | 4:40 (album version) 3:59 (single edit) |
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Virgin Records 896 293 2 |
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| Producer(s) | David Bowie, Reeves Gabrels | |||
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"The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell" is a song written by David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels for the album Hours in 1999. The first single release from the album in Australia and Japan, while the rest of the world got "Thursday's Child" as their first single. The first appearance of the song was on the soundtrack of the film Stigmata in 1999. It charted and peaked at No. 30 in Japan. The song's title takes influence from the song "Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell" by The Stooges from their album Raw Power produced by Bowie himself.
The music video for "The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell" exists, but officially is unreleased. In it, Bowie encounters four of his "past selves" (The Man Who Sold the World, Ziggy Stardust, The Thin White Duke and Pierrot) as played by life-sized, mannequin-like puppets. In 2013, Bowie resurrected the two latter puppets in his homemade video for James Murphy's remix of "Love Is Lost" from the album The Next Day.
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