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Thursday's Child (David Bowie song)
Song by David Bowie
"Thursday's Child" is a song recorded by David Bowie for his twenty-second studio album Hours (1999).
Written by Bowie and Reeves Gabrels, the song was released as the album's lead single on 20 September 1999, by Virgin Records.
Background and composition
It was the first single from Hours and preceded the album by two weeks.
In a performance for VH1 Storytellers, Bowie revealed that the title of the song was prompted by the memory of the autobiography of actress Eartha Kitt.
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The book, also called Thursday's Child, used to be a favourite of his when he was 14 years old.
The song, just like "Ashes to Ashes", is inspired by Danny Kaye's "Inchworm". According to Nicholas Pegg the song references Ray Charles' "That Lucky Old Sun" and John Donne's poem "The Sun Rising".[1]
According to the song's songwriter and producer Reeves Gabrels, Bowie initially wanted group TLC to sing background vocals on