| 词条 | Cracked Actor (song) |
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| name = Cracked Actor | cover = | alt = | type = | artist = David Bowie | album = Aladdin Sane | released = 13 April 1973 | format = | recorded = January 1973 | studio = Trident Studios, London | venue = | genre = Hard rock, glam rock | length = 2:56 | label = RCA | writer = David Bowie | producer = Ken Scott, David Bowie }} "Cracked Actor" is a song written by David Bowie, originally released on the album Aladdin Sane in April 1973. The track was also issued as a single in Eastern Europe by RCA Records in June that year. Music and lyricsOne of the album's hard rockers, the song is about an aging Hollywood star in an encounter with a prostitute, the chorus including various allusions to sex and drugs:[1] Crack, baby, crack, show me you're real Smack, baby, smack, is that all that you feel Suck, baby, suck, give me your head Before you start professing that you're knocking me deadRolling Stone suggested that Bowie's goal was "to strip the subject of his validity, as he has done with the rocker, as a step towards a re-definition of these roles and his own inhabiting of them".[2] However NME writers Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray considered that the song "reveals little else except that Bowie's capabilities with a mouth-harp are decidedly limited".[3] Release and aftermathFollowing its release on Aladdin Sane, "Cracked Actor" was issued as Bowie's first single for the Russian market, backed with "John, I'm Only Dancing". The timing was supposedly to cash in on publicity emanating from his trip through Eastern Europe on the Trans-Siberian Railway in April–May 1973, shortly before his final Ziggy Stardust tour in the UK.[4] "Cracked Actor" became a centrepiece of Bowie's 1974 North American tour when he would perform the song wearing sunglasses and holding a skull (à la Hamlet), which he would then proceed to French kiss.[5] The track also gave its name to Alan Yentob's documentary of the tour. In 1983 Bowie revived the song and the sunglasses-and-skull routine for his Serious Moonlight Tour. Personnel
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Notes1. ^Nicholas Pegg (2000). The Complete David Bowie: p.56 {{David Bowie singles}}2. ^{{cite journal|last=Ben Gerson |title=Aladdin Sane |journal=Rolling Stone |date=19 July 1973 |publisher=Rolling Stone |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/davidbowie/albums/album/283449/review/6067692 |format= |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014231027/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/davidbowie/albums/album/283449/review/6067692 |archivedate=October 14, 2007 }} 3. ^Roy Carr & Charles Shaar Murray (1981). Bowie: An Illustrated Record: p.54 4. ^"Cracked Actor" at Teenage Wildlife 5. ^Steve Malins (2007). "My Set Is Amazing...", MOJO 60 Years of Bowie: p.47 6 : David Bowie songs|1973 songs|Songs written by David Bowie|Songs about drugs|Song recordings produced by Ken Scott|Song recordings produced by David Bowie |
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