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* CutSong: "Bombers" was recorded for the album, but was ultimately replaced with a CoverVersion of Biff Rose's "Fill Your Heart". The song would eventually become a bonus track on the 1990 remaster.
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** The band ''The Kooks'' named themselves after the song "Kooks." Music/TheSmiths also references the song in "Sheila Take a Bow" with the "throw the homework onto the fire" line.

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** The band ''The Kooks'' the Kooks named themselves after the song "Kooks." Music/TheSmiths also references the song in "Sheila Take a Bow" with the "throw the homework onto the fire" line.
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** ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' opens with a TitleCard that quotes the lines "...and these children that you spit on, as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through..." from "Changes".
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** Bowie was signed to the publishing arm of Creator/ChrysalisRecords, and he wrote the material for both this album and ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'' up to the end of 1971; the main label pressed a test 7" of the demos that he recorded for ''Hunky Dory''. However, Tony Defries' label-scouting would ultimately bring Bowie under the arm of Creator/RCARecords.

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** As shown in the BoxedSet ''Divine Symmetry'', Bowie was signed to the publishing arm of Creator/ChrysalisRecords, Creator/ChrysalisRecords on October 23, 1970, and he wrote the material for both this album and ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'' up to the end of 1971; the main label even pressed a test 7" of the demos that he recorded for ''Hunky Dory''.Dory''. Additionally, Music/TheBeatles' vanity label, Apple Records, manufactured a test pressing of the album itself for promotional purposes. However, Tony Defries' label-scouting would ultimately bring Bowie under the arm of Creator/RCARecords.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/MercuryRecords were willing to negotiate a new contract that would've been more favorable for Bowie after the spat over the cover art for ''Music/TheManWhoSoldTheWorld'', thus meaning that ''Hunky Dory'' (and by extent Bowie's later albums) could've been released through them. However, Bowie's manager, Tony Defries, allowed the Mercury contract to expire in June 1971 due to his discontent with the label's handling of Bowie, who Defries moved over to Creator/RCARecords in the fallout.

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Creator/MercuryRecords were willing to negotiate a new contract that would've been more favorable for Bowie after the spat over the cover art for ''Music/TheManWhoSoldTheWorld'', thus meaning that ''Hunky Dory'' (and by extent Bowie's later albums) could've been released through them. However, Bowie's manager, Tony Defries, allowed the Mercury contract to expire in June 1971 due to his discontent with the label's handling of Bowie, who Defries moved over to Creator/RCARecords in the fallout.fallout.
** Bowie was signed to the publishing arm of Creator/ChrysalisRecords, and he wrote the material for both this album and ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'' up to the end of 1971; the main label pressed a test 7" of the demos that he recorded for ''Hunky Dory''. However, Tony Defries' label-scouting would ultimately bring Bowie under the arm of Creator/RCARecords.
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** In ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', a CoverVersion of "Changes" by Butterfly Boucher (with Bowie himself on backing vocals) underscores the montage depicting Shrek's journey back to Far Far Away after taking the Happily Ever After potion.
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** The ''Series/DoctorWho'' story [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars "The Waters of Mars"]] is set on Bowie Base One, an astronaut colony on Mars, alluding to "Life on Mars?"
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* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: The album finished recording on August 9, 1971, but took until December 17 (just over eight months later) to see release, owed to Tony Defries needing to find a new label for Bowie after the expiration of his previous contract in June.
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* ChannelHop: After [[Music/SpaceOddity two]] [[Music/TheManWhoSoldTheWorld albums]] on Creator/PhilipsRecords and Creator/MercuryRecords, this album was Bowie's first to be released through Creator/RCARecords, with whom he'd work for the next 11 years. The move came at the behest of Bowie's manager, Tony Defries, who felt that Mercury had shafted Bowie financially; Defries threatened to make Bowie turn in an intentionally bad album unless the label allowed their contract to expire.

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* ChannelHop: After [[Music/SpaceOddity two]] [[Music/TheManWhoSoldTheWorld albums]] on Creator/PhilipsRecords and Creator/MercuryRecords, this album was Bowie's first to be released through Creator/RCARecords, with whom he'd work for the next 11 years. The move came at the behest of Bowie's manager, Tony Defries, who felt that Mercury had shafted Bowie financially; Defries threatened to make Bowie turn in an intentionally bad album unless the label allowed their contract to expire. Mercury would also surrender their ownership of the material Bowie released under them once Defries cleared the musician's debts to the label.
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* ChannelHop: After [[Music/SpaceOddity two]] [[Music/TheManWhoSoldTheWorld albums]] on Creator/PhilipsRecords and Creator/MercuryRecords, this album was Bowie's first to be released through Creator/RCARecords, with whom he'd work for the next 11 years. The move came at the behest of Bowie's manager, Tony Defries, who felt that Mercury had shafted Bowie financially; Defries threatened to make Bowie turn in an intentionally bad album unless the label allowed their contract to expire.


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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/MercuryRecords were willing to negotiate a new contract that would've been more favorable for Bowie after the spat over the cover art for ''Music/TheManWhoSoldTheWorld'', thus meaning that ''Hunky Dory'' (and by extent Bowie's later albums) could've been released through them. However, Bowie's manager, Tony Defries, allowed the Mercury contract to expire in June 1971 due to his discontent with the label's handling of Bowie, who Defries moved over to Creator/RCARecords in the fallout.
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* LifeImitatesArt: The surreal line: "It's on America's tortured brow / that WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse has grown up a cow" in "Life on Mars?" got real in the 1990s when a cow was discovered with a spot resembling the silhouette of ''Mickey Mouse.'' It could [[http://www.painetworks.com/previews/10/100012.html be seen]] in Disney World, Florida.

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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Creator/RCARecords refused to give the album much in the way of promotion, correctly predicting that Bowie (who'd already made four {{Genre Shift}}s by that point) was planning on shaking up his image yet again; the album failed to chart as a result, not achieving any commercial success until Bowie's mainstream breakthrough with ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'' the following year.

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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Creator/RCARecords refused to give the album much in the way of promotion, correctly predicting that Bowie (who'd promotion; sessions for ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'' had already made four {{Genre Shift}}s by commenced when it released, and the label felt that point) was planning on shaking up his Bowie's change in image yet again; the there would make it difficult to market both records in equal measure. The album failed to chart as a result, not achieving any commercial success until Bowie's mainstream breakthrough with ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'' ''Ziggy Stardust'' the following year.year.
* ThrowItIn: "The Bewlay Brothers" was a last-minute addition to the album -- it was included so belatedly that it wasn't even demoed, highlighted by the audible stool creaks and breaths at the start.
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** ''Film/{{Milk}}'' uses "Queen Bitch" as the background music to a montage depicting the titular activist's mayoral campaign, highlighting Bowie's close connections to the LGBT community in the '70s.

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** Music/TheKillers referenced a line from Queen Bitch via the "now she's calling a cab" bit in "Mr. Brightside".

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** Music/TheKillers referenced a line from Queen Bitch "Queen Bitch" via the "now she's calling a cab" bit in "Mr. Brightside".


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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Creator/RCARecords refused to give the album much in the way of promotion, correctly predicting that Bowie (who'd already made four {{Genre Shift}}s by that point) was planning on shaking up his image yet again; the album failed to chart as a result, not achieving any commercial success until Bowie's mainstream breakthrough with ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'' the following year.
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** Music/{{Metallica}} interpolates a section of "Andy Warhol" just before the final verse on "Music/MasterOfPuppets".
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** Music/TheKillers referenced a line from Queen Bitch via the "now she's calling a cab" bit in "Mr. Brightside".

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** Music/TheKillers referenced a line from Queen Bitch via the "now she's calling a cab" bit in "Mr. Brightside".Brightside".
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** The band ''The Kooks'' named themselves after the song "Kooks." Music/TheSmiths also references the song in "Sheila Take a Bow" with the "throw the homework onto the fire" line.
** ''[[Series/LifeOnMars2006 Life on Mars]]'' was named after "Life on Mars?"
** Music/TheKillers referenced a line from Queen Bitch via the "now she's calling a cab" bit in "Mr. Brightside".

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