Alabama Song 40th Anniversary 7" (Picture Disc) fg_Label_Amorphous very aggressive set of oblique

very aggressive set of oblique song-based responses to what was going on

including Mat Brooke

and features performances by Arlo Guthrie

“That was written as a punk song

Alabama Song 40th Anniversary 7" (Picture Disc) fg_Label_Amorphous very aggressive set of obliqueOriginally released in the UK on 15th February, 1980 ALABAMA SONG was initially written as a poem by Bertolt Brecht in 1925 and was put to music by Kurt Weill for the 1927 play Little Mahogany. David Bowie was a longstanding Brecht fan and included the song in the setlist for his 1978 Isolar II tour. The studio version of ALABAMA SONG on the A side of this release was recorded on July 2nd 1978, the day after the final show of the European leg of the