Editing Diamond Dogs (section)

==Release and promotion==
[[File:David Bowie - TopPop 1974 08.png|thumb|left|upright=0.8|alt=A black and white photo Bowie with longer hair and an eyepatch, holding a guitar and looking down at it|Bowie performing "[[Rebel Rebel]]" on ''Top Pop'' in February 1974]]
In the UK, RCA released the [[lead single]], "Rebel Rebel", on 15&nbsp;February 1974, backed by the ''Hunky Dory'' track "[[Queen Bitch]]".{{sfn|O'Leary|2015|loc=chap. 8}} The same day, Bowie recorded a [[lip sync]]ed performance of "Rebel Rebel" at Hilversum's Avro Studio&nbsp;2 for the Dutch television programme ''Top Pop''. Broadcast two days later, it featured Bowie donning what Pegg calls his short-lived "pirate image"—an eyepatch and a spotted neckerchief. Bowie changed this costume after the performance in favour of the "swept-back parting and double-breasted suits" of the Diamond Dogs Tour.{{sfn|Pegg|2016|pp=221–223}} For its US release, Bowie recorded a new mix in April 1974. Dubbed the "Latin dub mix" by Doggett,{{sfn|Doggett|2012|pp=236–239}} this mix was released in New York in May 1974, with "[[Lady Grinning Soul]]" as the B-side.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rebel Rebel 45 is forty five today |url=https://www.davidbowie.com/blog/2019/2/15/rebel-rebel-45-is-forty-five-today |website=David Bowie Official Website |access-date=3 February 2020 |date=15 February 2019}}</ref> The single was a commercial success, peaking at number 5 on the [[UK Singles Chart]] and number 64 on the US ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' [[Billboard Hot 100|Hot 100]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/rebel-rebel/ |title=Official Charts Company |website=Officialcharts.com |date=23 February 1974 |access-date=9 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419054305/https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/rebel-rebel/ |archive-date=19 April 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title="Rebel Rebel" Chart History |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/david-bowie/chart-history/hsi/ |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |access-date=9 February 2020}}</ref> It further became a glam anthem, the female equivalent of Bowie's earlier hit for [[Mott the Hoople]], "[[All the Young Dudes]]".{{sfn|Carr|Murray|1981|p=60}}

RCA issued ''Diamond Dogs'' on 24&nbsp;May 1974 with the catalogue number APLI 0576.<ref name="release date">{{cite web|url=https://www.davidbowie.com/news/diamond-dogs-album-forty-today-53146|title=''Diamond Dogs'' album is forty today|website=David Bowie Official Website|date=24 May 2014|access-date=14 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140531161223/https://www.davidbowie.com/news/diamond-dogs-album-forty-today-53146|archive-date=31 May 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{efn|The release date is disputed. O'Leary and Sandford write it was 24 April,{{sfn|O'Leary|2015|loc=Partial Discography}}{{sfn|Sandford|1997|p=124}} while Cann and Pegg say it was 31 May.{{sfn|Cann|2010|p=322}}{{sfn|Pegg|2016|pp=367–372}}}} The album was a commercial success, peaking at number one on the [[UK Albums Chart]] and number five on the US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' Top LPs & Tape]] chart.<ref name="UKchart">{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/David%20Bowie/ |title=David Bowie > Artists > Official Charts |publisher=[[UK Albums Chart]] |access-date=31 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103181930/http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/david%20bowie/ |archive-date=3 November 2013  }}</ref><ref name="USchart" /> A $400,000 advertising campaign featuring billboards in [[Times Square]] and [[Sunset Boulevard]], magazine ads, subway posters declaring "The Year of the Diamond Dogs" and a television commercial, one of the first of its kind for a pop album according to Pegg, boosted its sales in the US.{{sfn|Pegg|2016|pp=367–372}} In Canada, it repeated its British chart-topping success, hitting number one on the ''[[RPM (magazine)|RPM 100]]'' national albums chart in July 1974, remaining there for two weeks.<ref name="Canadachart" /> RCA released the second single, "Diamond Dogs", on 14&nbsp;June 1974, with a rerecorded version of Bowie's 1971 single "[[Holy Holy (song)|Holy Holy]]" as the B-side.{{sfn|O'Leary|2015|loc=Partial Discography}}{{sfn|Pegg|2016|p=114}} It was Bowie's least-successful single in two years, peaking at number 21 on the [[UK Singles Chart]] and failing to chart in the US.{{sfn|O'Leary|2015|loc=chap. 8}}{{sfn|Pegg|2016|pp=74–75}} In July, "1984" was released as the third single in the US and Japan, but failed to chart.{{sfn|Pegg|2016|pp=198–199}}{{sfn|Clerc|2021|p=207}} Reviewing the single the following month, ''Billboard'' described "1984" as Bowie's "most commercial cut ... in a long time".<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Top Single Picks |magazine=Billboard |date=10 August 1974 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/70s/1974/Billboard%201974-08-10.pdf |page=74 |via=worldradiohistory.com |access-date=6 December 2020 |archive-date=15 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115160522/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/70s/1974/Billboard%201974-08-10.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Tour===
{{Main article|Diamond Dogs Tour}}
[[File:Bowie-DD-1974-3.jpg|thumb|upright|right|alt=Bowie with red hair man looking to the left holding a microphone and wearing a red and white fur coat|Bowie performing during the Diamond Dogs Tour in July 1974]]
Bowie supported the album on the Diamond Dogs Tour, whose first leg lasted from 14&nbsp;June to 20&nbsp;July 1974. Co-designed and constructed by Chris Langhart, it featured elaborate set-pieces and cost $250,000. [[Fritz Lang]]'s ''[[Metropolis (1927 film)|Metropolis]]'' (1927) and [[Robert Wiene]]'s ''[[The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari]]'' (1920) influenced the tour's design, primarily due to Bowie's interest in [[German Expressionism (cinema)|German expressionism]].{{sfn|Pegg|2016|p=557}} The tour's second leg, from 2&nbsp;September to 1&nbsp;December 1974, has been nicknamed the Soul Tour, because of the influence of the soul music Bowie had begun recording for ''Young Americans'' in August. The shows were altered heavily, and no longer featured elaborate set-pieces, partly because Bowie had tired of the design and wanted to explore the new sound he was creating. Bowie dropped songs from the previous leg, while he added new ones—some from ''Young Americans''.{{sfn|Pegg|2016|p=562}}

In early September, director [[Alan Yentob]] filmed a documentary that depicts Bowie on the tour in Los Angeles, using a mixture of sequences filmed in limousines, hotels and concert footage, most of which was taken from a show there at [[Universal Amphitheatre]] on 2&nbsp;September.{{sfn|Pegg|2016|pp=639–640}} Broadcast on [[BBC One|BBC1]] in the UK on 26&nbsp;January 1975, ''[[Cracked Actor]]'' is notable as a primary source of footage of the Diamond Dogs Tour, and for showing Bowie's declining mental state during this period because of his growing cocaine addiction.{{sfn|Pegg|2016|pp=639–640}} After seeing an advanced screening of the film, the director [[Nicolas Roeg]] immediately contacted Bowie to discuss a role in ''[[The Man Who Fell to Earth]]'' (1976).{{sfn|Pegg|2016|pp=639–640}}

Bowie played all of the album's songs except "We Are the Dead" on the tour,{{sfn|Pegg|2016|p=303}} performances of which have been released on three live albums: ''[[David Live]]'' (1974), ''[[Cracked Actor (Live Los Angeles '74)|Cracked Actor]]'' (2017) and ''[[I'm Only Dancing (The Soul Tour 74)]]'' (2020).<ref>{{cite web|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/david-live-mw0000033632|title=''David Live'' – David Bowie|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=3 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424115457/https://www.allmusic.com/album/david-live-mw0000033632|archive-date=24 April 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Randle|first=Chris|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/david-bowie-cracked-actor-live-los-angeles-74/|title=David Bowie: ''Cracked Actor (Live Los Angeles '74)''|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|date=29 June 2017|access-date=10 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170711225233/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/david-bowie-cracked-actor-live-los-angeles-74/|archive-date=11 July 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=I'm Only Dancing for Record Store Day 2020 |url=https://www.davidbowie.com/blog/2020/2/19/im-only-dancing-for-record-store-day-2020 |website=David Bowie Official Website |access-date=31 October 2020 |date=19 February 2020 |archive-date=18 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418032903/https://www.davidbowie.com/blog/2020/2/19/im-only-dancing-for-record-store-day-2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> "Rebel Rebel" featured on almost every later Bowie tour,{{sfn|Pegg|2016|pp=221–223}} "Diamond Dogs" was performed for the [[Isolar – 1976 Tour|Isolar]], [[Outside Tour|Outside]] and [[A Reality Tour]]s,{{sfn|Pegg|2016|pp=74–75}} and "Big Brother/Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family" was resurrected in 1987 for the [[Glass Spider Tour]],{{sfn|Pegg|2016|pp=59–60}} which itself was heavily influenced by the Diamond Dogs tour.<ref name=InFashion>{{cite magazine|last=Morse|first=Steve|title=David Bowie (Cover Story)|magazine=In Fashion Magazine|volume=3|issue=10|date=July–August 1987|pages=151, 153}}</ref> The Diamond Dogs Tour has had a lasting legacy. Sandford says the tour turned Bowie from a "novelty act" into a "superstar".{{sfn|Sandford|1997|p=126}} Spitz writes it was highly influential on future tours with large and elaborate set pieces, including [[Parliament-Funkadelic]]'s Mothership Connection tour, [[Elvis Presley]]'s Vegas period, the 1990s tours of [[U2]] and [[Madonna]], and [['N Sync]], the [[Backstreet Boys]], [[Britney Spears]] and [[Kanye West]]'s 2008 [[Glow in the Dark Tour]].{{sfn|Spitz|2009|p=237}}