David Bowie - Boys Keep Swinging (Official Video)
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- The official music video for David Bowie - Boys Keep Swinging (From Lodger)
Taken from Bowie's 13th studio album 'Lodger' released in 1979, which featured the singles 'Boys Keep Swinging, DJ, Yassassin and Look Back In Anger'.
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Lyrics
Heaven loves ya, the clouds part for ya
Nothing stands in your way
When you're a boy
Clothes always fit ya, life is a pop of the cherry
When you're a boy
When you're a boy, you can wear a uniform
When you're a boy, other boys check you out
You get a girl, these are your favorite things
When you're a boy
Boys, boys
Boys keep swinging
Boys always work it out
Uncage the colors, unfurl the flag
Luck just kissed you hello
When you're a boy
They'll never clone you, you are always first on the line
When you're a boy
When you're a boy, you can buy a home of your own
When you're a boy, learn to drive and everything
You'll get your share
When you're a boy
Boys, boys
Boys keep swinging
Boys always work it out
About David Bowie:
David Bowie redefined musical genres and the potential of live performance for generations of music lovers. Creating and discarding a variety of personae and restlessly challenging musical boundaries, Bowie released timeless albums including Space Oddity, Hunky Dory, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust…, Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs, Young Americans, Station to Station, "Heroes,” Let's Dance, Heathen, The Next Day and many more. Blackstar, Bowie’s 28th and final studio album, was released on his 69th birthday, January 8, 2016. David Bowie died on January 10, 2016, two days after the release of Blackstar. His body of work, his influence on the worlds of music, art, fashion, film, theatre and beyond, and his legacy of innovation and reinvention will live forever. 2022 kicks off with Bowie at 75, a celebration of his 75th birthday with the Brilliant Adventure box set, the previously unreleased Toy, the 50th anniversary of Ziggy Stardust and a series of special events.
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The man had it all: good looks, great voice, cool sense of fashion, slick moves on the dance floor & incredible creativity. RIP unforgettable David Bowie.
I've only just recently seen some of his interviews and he was also so smart and so pleasant.
@@dolores2716 Can't forget that he was well-mannered & intelligent, also! Thanks for reminding me. Be safe.
1979
and a great sense of humour
silent cry from me when they cremated his body .....
I LOVED this - it damn near gave my father a stroke when Bowie came on TV looking like this. You can't imagine the utter dreariness of 1970s Yorkshire. Bowie, Bolan, Mercury put some life into our world.
So Happy i got to live in a universe with all of them. Even though I only got to know David's mate Marc Bolan after he was gone - because he was taken too soon.
I watched this with my mum and a visitor who was paying my dad for a job. We all sat there, Thursday night, TOTP, without comment until the visitor said “He’s not as good as Danny La Rue is he!”
@@jimmyandrex5697 My very 1st exposure to him, was this video on a show here called "Twiggy's Jukebox", pre-MTV, on a Friday night!
I first saw this as a ‘black market’ video that had been smuggled into Saudi Arabia. I was a young Western girl suffering from a horrible case of the flu in 1980s Riyadh. My mother popped this into our BetaMax, said “Watch this, you’ll feel better” and I was instantly cured lol
I was a huge Bowie fan throughout the '70s, and really got a kick out of his trilogy...this album didn't have the consistent genius of 'Low' or 'Heroes', but it certainly had its moments...I still can't believe that the Man who Sold the World was a mere mortal after all...
David's actually a great actor. Each person he portrays in this video has their own distinct personality.
i've always wondered if the older woman character is supposed to remind you of bette davis or if there's some other inspiration for that particular look.
Bowie was studying acting before he got his big break in music. He never really left it behind.
It surprised me how much of a good actor he was. As the concept of a musician trying to act always has me think twice, regardless if they were as talented as Bowie, musicians like Billie Eilish or Doja Cat, or an untalented hack like Cardi B (who fucking can’t fucking act or fucking do anything for fucking shit!). It always has me go “hold up, can you actually act or are you being a sellout?”
@@d1jezek Marlene Dietrich. He'd done a film "with" her the year before in 1978, her last, called Just A Gigolo. Unfortunately it wasn't very good. She and Bowie had to shoot their one scene together in separate places because she was too old and weak to travel to Berlin. Her parts were shot in Paris, where she lived. Dietrich had always fascinated him. Bowie lifted his pose that's on the cover of Hunky Dory from a book of 1930s photos of her.
It's no exaggeration to say he could literally do anything (performance wise).
David Bowie snatching his own wig is my religion.
*puts fifty dollars in the collection box*
"Modern Love gets you to the church on time." 😉
And that sneer as he wipes off and smears his own lipstick... oh LAWD!
Can I get an amen?? XD
1979
Honestly the way he tears his makeup off is so iconic
David Bowie was the most beautiful man on Earth.
And he knew it.
And changed his teeth.
@@MrCalhoun556 I mean originally they were pretty messed up but regardless he was still handsome ngl
I loved his original teeth.
@@MrCalhoun556 Wished he didn't,loved his original teeth.
@@couplakooks So did I.
Can we just appreciate his dancing like I'm living
Great fun talent love it
Ru Paul is quaking
Sarah Seneviratne, by far my favorite video of him dancing. Absolute love
There was a time I tried to dance like that - but just couldn’t get cool enough
The dancing is very cute, and comical😂😂
David Bowie - the epitome of androgyny. No one did it like him. A multi-talented master.
I love how comments on Bowie videos are always so positive. ❤
Он легенда, он всегда с нами!❤
The Russian person above me said
“He is a legend, he is always with us.”
He worked hard creating millions of unconditionals fans. Our opinions now fluorish all together with the love he create.
He looks better than I do in a dress! Love Bowie
zoe palmer. hey don't feel bad he looked better than most people in a dress or trousers! sexiest coolest guy that ever walked the planet.
Olive Eisner, he most certainly was!
Olive Eisner So true.
David Bowie: Hotter and cooler* in two genders and >a dozen characters than you will ever be in your own gender and character 😐 (Since 1947™)
*Try and reckon that one out -- Bowie could pull it off, of course.
Same here.
Gotta love Bowie in drag
he's pretty as a girl.
Holy crap I had to do a double take at 0:51
Alyssa Lmao aayyyee we meet again
MoonChild35 woah my dood
prettier than me at least
I miss Bowie ;(
I feel like I didn't appreciate him enough when he was still with us, may he rest in peace
FANTASTIC! When he performed this on SNL they bleeped "other boys check you out." Can you believe that was considered too subversive for TV back '79.
they could just pretend it meant that boys check you out to be like you. you get me?
The SNL has something pretty shocking if you watch the original video. You have to look close! The version you saw probably had that cut out, not the lyrics. Look close at the crotch area in the original video. I didn't catch it when it originally aired, but years later noticed it. It flashes on and off pretty quick.
People forget how much society has changed in such a short time.
@@pushthetempo2 for the worse
@@s.oddity3640 shut up!!!
Lodger was so weird and so good...
Yes
Fuck yes.
The weirdest Bowie album IMO.
@@ThinWhiteAxe In context, Low was far stranger.
Lodger is definitely my favorite lmao
The guitar solo at the end is electrifying!!
Adrian Belew, wow what a player
Yes!
It was rumoured (so don’t quote me) that Bowie insisted on members of his band playing different instruments to their usual ones for the guitar bit at the end so it would sound totally [censord] up. Think he achieved the sound he wanted
@@Garylpool1 Carlos could drum ok. Bowie played guitar. The drummer - well, even Eno thought it wasn't very good, so Tony Vosconti replaced his bass line. It was more Eno's idea - his oblique strategy stuff generated from written instructions on cards. Belew did several passes on the guitar solo, as they wouldn't let him hear the track before he recorded. I imagine it got better, so they picked and chose.
This is art. It doesn't get any better.
I absolutely love the way he moves🖤🖤🖤
Veronika Rampasová :)
kkh369 yeah I agree
We are absolutely beginners
Veronika Rampasová OMG!! I LOVE how he moves too
As did Katy Bush who based an entire bloody career around it.
It's March 2024 and this video still Knocks Me Out. And I saw it back then (thank you TH-cam people for bringing it back to me!). Talk about cutting edge ... Bowie was the DEFINITION of the Bleeding Edge
I remember at the time thinking up back stories of the 3 "Bowie girls". All I recall is the elderly, graceful lady had been active in the Secret Service in WW2, parachuted into France with the Resistance, and never told anyone afterwards what she'd done. In the 1970's, the age and timing was about right...
I CRIED and missed work when I learned Bowie had died 😭😭😭😭
3 years later and I still can't believe he's gone!
Me too🥺
I was in mourning for about a month. 😢
Same here
I remember seeing this as a kid and being like "WTF was he thinking!? This is weird sht!". Now at 32 I'm like "This sht is genius!!!" Love you Bowie: a true original. ❤
See what happens web you ev0lve, unlike a lot of Americans, you have depth to your outlook on things
He'll never cease to amaze me
I can’t imagine what rock, pop, avant-garde or popular culture would be without Bowie.
Bowie's moves are my oxygen.
I first noticed bowie singing backup in his own song when i saw his teeth and had to playback the video and started to freak because it was bowie doing drag
Is the red hair woman?
Ignacio he plays all the "backup" singers
But the blonde woman looks too old, like the 60 years Bowie
Ignacio he did that on purpose
kkh369 too old for be a 30 years guy
An all-time fave, one of his best. That groovy bass line just gets you. Memorable vid too highlighting the man's sleazy and suave debonair charm. Bowie in drag is a delight too. And man, that avant-garde guitar freak-out at the end perfectly wraps up this unforgettable track.
Words can't describe how much I love that noisy guitar solo at the end. Do you know what type of genre that type of "sound" belongs to? Besides avant garde ofcourse.
@@TheRyanos Experimental would be another word used to describe it. 😊
Watch the iconic live 1978 Tokio "Station to station" performance for the Andrew Belew guitar playing.
@@zbygniewprlwytzkofsky6614 Thanks. 🙂 👍
Tony Visconti on bass and Adrian Belew on guitar.
I'm in love with the way he dances in this video. ❤❤
My God that swagger! Then he tops that by taking the catwalk confidently in 5" heels! love this man~
Dear Harry Styles, Bowie called from the 1970s to say he's done it all before. And better.
WORD!!
Don't ever put that excuse for a "musician" in the same sentence as David Bowie.
@@Hellwyck Right?! Haha!
Leave Harry alone he's doing his best
💕🤣🤣🤣
I absolutely love this song , genius , never played on the radio strangely, 😢
Hey you might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like David Bowie
We love a drag legend💗
Fer Dominguez Um wtf?
@@user-hv9wh5vv6p what?
you clearly didn't get the meaning. He wanted to emphasise masculinity not masculinize women or shit like that
Philipp Huber it doesn't matter, man.
@@ericcartman5294 it does
I´m a completey non-dancer. But watching David in this makes me absolute wanna storm the dancefloor at the local discotheque.
Lyrics:
Heaven loves ya
The clouds part for ya
Nothing stands in your way
When you're a boy
Clothes always fit ya
Life is a pop of the cherry
When you're a boy
When you're a boy
You can wear a uniform
When you're a boy
Other boys check you out
You get a girl
These are your favourite things
When you're a boy
Boys
Boys
Boys keep swinging
Boys always work it out
Uncage the colours
Unfurl the flag
Luck just kissed you hello
When you're a boy
They'll never clone ya
You're always first on the line
When you're a boy
When you're a boy
You can buy a home of your own
When you're a boy
Learn to drive and everything
You'll get your share
When you're a boy
Boys
Boys
Boys keep swinging
Boys always work it out
watching this music video was the first comprehensible experience i had of David Bowie when I was like 7 and I remember thinking who the bloody fuck is that absolute weirdo and now years later he has become my favourite thing in the universe 💖✨
I had exactly the same experience with the video for Ashes to Ashes
My first encounter was Labyrinth, I think. And then Blackstar. But let's be real, there's no non-weird way to be introduced to Bowie 🤣
Mine was the Life On Mars? music video. Then the song Changes.
Brilliant preformer so many levels. Love him to bits. He is sorely missed.
The suit here is another Bowie fashion gem-this is '79 -it wouldn't look out of place in 2021. As usual light years ahead.
he was the king.. now he’s a legend ⭐️
He had a great sense of humour.
si 👍
I just love watching him dance, such fabulous style. 🕺
David Bowie -- looking cooler in two genders than you do in one. 😎
Oh Yeah!👌
So absolutely true !
And without rubber boobs! Some classic dresses too!👗👗👗👗👗👗👗👗👗👗👗👗👗👗👗👗👗👗👗👗👗👗👗👗👗👗👗👗👗👗👗
Only Bowie cud do that
hands down
...there is no-one quite like this creative man ........
Happy birthday David Bowie! 🎊🎊🎊🎉🎉🎉🎈🎈🎈🎈🎁🎁🎁🎂🎂🎂
I went to the David Bowie Is exhibit in Chicago in 2015. So many costumes on mannequins close enough to touch. And wall sized videos and other articles that were part of his life, like his diamond coke spoon. I stared at the long dress from that video while the music played, it was transcendent.
This has to be one of the coolest music videos ever.
David Bowie music 🎶 🎵 👌 I was brought up with all these songs it only seems like yesterday, still brilliant 👏 👌 👍, a great person is music will live on ,r,I,p
love these new releases
The sound fidelity is superior to the other original version on TH-cam. This is a terrific track from Lodger in addition to being a killer video.
Thank you for blessing us with all these uploadings. ✨
I was really impressed with this song when it was a hit. So much so, that one day, when I came home from school, I went upstairs, opened the door, and saw my two younger sisters strumming badminton rackets and chanting: boys - boys - boys keep swinging, boys keep swinging - boys - boys - boys keep swinging, boys keep swinging - boys - boys - ...
“I think Boys Keep Swinging is one of David Bowie’s best song in the history of pop music “
Happy Birthday David. You are and will always be the best musical experience of all time. I love Floyd, Funkadelic, Ska anything you name it but you my friend have always knocked it out of the park with everything you did. The world of music owes you!!!
Shame this genius is no longer with us he was fantastic miss your original music, so glad you gave us all you did in your songs another true legend we've lost.
A taste of things to come... He had it all, he knew it all! He isn't gone - just had to disappear!
Bowie, such a great bone structure in face, perfect postures in drag, catchy song and terrific hooks and musicians playing instruments they are not familiar with. Great song.
Where on earth did you get the idea that idea from ? The guitarist is a certain Carlos Alomar with whom Bowie collaborated many times from the mid-1970s.
@@user-wp8vy8le3y actually Carlos played drums on this track, with Adrian Belew on guitar. You can check the facts in any Bowie related stories.
@@user-wp8vy8le3y Carlos played drums on this track, Adrian Belew played lead guitar. You could check any Bowie story how Instrumentarium were changed in this track.
Wasn't Mr. Bowie like the coolest dude ever? Love this song, this vid!
Love the noise at the end of this track. Brings the avant garde into the pop mainstream. And he looks so good!
I REMEMBER WATCHING BOYS KEEP SWINGING WHEN I WAS AT SCHOOL ON TOP OF THE POPS FROM THAT DAY TRANSFIXED WITH BOWIE ALL OF MY LIFE HUGE BOWIE FAN MY MUM SAID I WAS WEIRD REALLY DON'T CARE SLEEP WELL MY STARMAN MISS YOU MADLY
2023 and I still love this song~!
Hey you might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like David Bowie
@@chrispolo840.. Will look them up. Thanks mate~!
@@chrispolo840 please stop with this spam now
I will never love anyone else like I love David Bowie ⚡☄
An absolute visionary when it came to putting music and image together. The greatest music video artist ever. EVER. Always ahead of the curve.
Bowie looked GOOD in drag. He rocked that look! And the song was pretty good too. Interesting how Bowie's band swapped instruments to give the song that "garage band" sound and feel.
Probably my favorite performance of his🥰
Hey you might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like David Bowie
@@chrispolo840 I’ll have a listen!
I was not prepared for this music video at 5:00 AM. Needless to say, made my morning. Close to tears, but that's to be expected at such an early hour.
that suit, tho
'clothes always fit ya ...'
Miss him so much 🥲
The thin white Duke will live forever.
Bowie was such an epic artistic genius, Lodger is an album full of songs I hated on first listen but only because they are so unconventional and unusual, now I can’t get them out of my head
Personally, Lodger is my favorite Bowie album.
David Bowie on niitä ainoita aitoja taiteilijoita, jotka ihan oikeasti hyötyivät ulkonäöstään. Jumalallinen habitus ja jumalainen musiikki. Kiitos, taiteilija! Hats off to David Bowie!
Darn this guy WAS/IS music. Up and down. That "take that" attitude with the wiping of the lipstick is classic.
Oh God I miss him. What a talented man. This video always puts a smile on my face. Life's just a pop of the Cherry when you're a boy LOL
One of the most original songs he made and so different from all the new wave of 1979...
2:03
I don't even have to look to know that that's Adrian Belew. Such a distinct sound he has
Belew's solo stuff is some of the best shit out there.
Love the bass on this track
Uncage the colors
Unfurl the flag
Luck just kissed you hello
When you're a boy
They'll never clone ya
You're always first on the line
When you're a boy
I love his swagger! ❤
Pure beautiful bowie
Never forgot my perangs faces when they watched this loved this the first time i saw it back then ...Miss ya David never be another you ❤😂🎉
The unique David Bowie in very fine fettle. Love this song!
Bowie was 80s during the 70s. Thats how great he was
Pfft.
The music was pure early 2000's to 2010's. Waaaaay ahead of his time.
This is effin brilliant. Pure art the way David knows best. In fact the combo of visuals singing lyrics and iconography are dop drawer Bowie. If you don't like it it's probably because you are the little old bewildered lady at the end. But Bowie offers you a pitying old lady kiss. Brilliant 👏
Genius. Pure Genius. Game Changer. Coolest guy who ever lived. Miss him so much.
We love you legend ❤️
The smearing of the lipstick is Bowie saying FUCK YOU to a world that suppresses high art of this magnitude displayed on this stage. David Bowie was DECADES ahead of his time!
It was taken from the drag artists in Berlin, and yes probably a fuck you to the audience in the club
Exactly!!
No artist goes near Bowie IRREPLACEABLE GENIUS AND INNOVATOR OF MUSIC HE WAS AND STILL IS HUGE BOWIE THE GREATEST IMO PHENOMENAL LEGEND
I hadn’t thought about this song and video for years. It came on the radio in the car tonight. ❤️
The greatest all round solo artist of all time.
amen
He was the ‘Second Coming’!! Absolute, absolute genius
I love you Bowie, always and forever. 🥰😇😘💖💙💜🙏💝
Jumping from David eras is surreal. He is confident and yet playing a different character in each video
This is the greatest music video I've ever seen. No exaggeration.
I saw this video many, many years ago while still in the closet. Knew I would be OK because of it, eventually. 40 years later, I am and happily married to the man of my dreams. Miss David every day though.
David "spoke" to us through his songs and his persona..he was letting us all know we were ok just the way we were/are...that's why we loved him so.
@@Apollo_Blaze I agree.
@@belizeguy 👍
You know I can’t believe people would give this a thumbs down . Bowie had a lot of people hating . I’m tired of it !
It's a phenomenally classic song and "short promotional film"!!!
6100 thumbs up, 84 thumbs down by 27 of april 2020, not bad at all, as I lend my ear to one of the greatest musical geniuses that ever lived. Really nice, and even more so as my town is in lockdown.
And there was me, thinking, he is one of the most loved artists of all time. Also every single video on TH-cam will, always gets some thumbs down.
Thanks for all the kind words
@@LaeLaMarley This video always makes me laugh, what we all need at the moment. Take care.
Scary Monsters. Best period for me. Adventurous, rock, so more cool than anyone else.
It’s always amazing to see these iconic videos!
Happy Heavenly Birthday Mr. Jones.
The last drag always reminded me a tad of the late great Bette Davis.
Genius. We love and miss you so much.
Hey you might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like David Bowie
"...learn to drive and everything" The Dude was always on The Verge of parody, of 'aving a larf... but Always With Such Style... Oh Yes !!
"learn to drive and everything" - my favorite line in this song
Greatest dancer in all the world
I love Bowie. Superstar.
Those dance moves, though...