Finale Performance - "All the Young Dudes" | 2019 Induction 

I bought All The Young Dudes while visiting my brother at Purdue University in 1971. Loved the title track and Sweet Jane, which was written by Lou Reed. In my opinion, Mott was there best album. Wish I could have seen them live. Thank you for channel’s like this, who care enough to develop stories like this. Blessings to you and your son. I just got done donating.

Mott the Hoople needs to be in the Hall of Fame. Ian just turned 82 ffs-- he has done SO much in music history since the late 60's. Come on, two from the original band have left us-- induct them! NOW!

Thanks to David Bowie who made that song ...

BEYOND LEGENDARY! All Paying Tribute to The Great 70's ERA of ROCK!

This song is the sound track to my youth

Mott the Hoople live were spectacular. One of the best concerts I've had the chance to attend. Hammersmith Odeon in late 1973, early show.

Great being a young dude in the seventies fab song 🎵

Mick ronson and David Bowie did some amazing work together. I absolutely love bowie but we owe a ton of that great art to Mick as well.

I first saw Ian Hunter in 1971, when Mott the Hoople opened for Grand Funk. My goodness. 🙈

This Dude has been in the business since the early sixties. Time to induct him.

For a bunch of old timers they sound fantastic.

I saw Mott the Hoople at the Hammersmith Odeon in December 1973. I was 15. They were supported by a band called Queen who, I understand, did quite well later.

One word FANTABULOUS. ❤

It breaks my heart for any one to say this is the end.........................we have hearts souls and memories, love and share.................for evermore

This was the first song played at Stony Brook University's WUSB when it went FM in 1977, and the last played in its original studios in 2017 when it moved to new facilities.

Missing my long passed Husband Alan

Folks how about Madonna and Michael Jackson being in the Hall of Fame and Mott the Hoople is not?

That so so Awesome I love that tune

Great how May adds the distinctive Queen twist to the guitar.

True classic rock!!

I come over here after watching: *The* Original music video for CBS Records. Produced and directed by Richard Weaver version - The chorus hook is still so infectious and melodic:)

Well- One rock legend Peter Frampton finally is in!! Ian Hunter absolutely should have been in years ago!!!!!!!!!!!1

Love Mott the Hoople! Saw them in SF in mid-1970s with Bad Co. and Aerosmith. Mott headlined and Aerosmith was the rookie opening act. (And...love Bowie, of course !)

Most of the audience don't even know who Ian was.

What a song... should have been a Bowie hit but IH’s vocals were amazing!

Loved this!!

Ian sounds great. This has Bowie written all over it. Wow

I grewup

Mott the Hoople actually broke up as a band in 72 after they pretty well went broke after touring and their latest album failed to get any singles on the charts but bowie wrote this song for them and convinced them to stay together and record and release it, he also produced the song for them and had his manager use his contacts to get them signed to CBS records, if not for bowie the band would have called it quits in 72 and no one would know who they were today.

I've had this song in my life for fifty years. As an eleven year old, I lived right out in the sticks. I had a tiny black transistor radio for company and I remember being out walking through a field of yellow blossoming corn, or rapeseed, I'm not sure..As I laid back on that burning hot day amid the flowers, this song came on....Life changer for me...Every single time I hear it, I get a little moist in the corner of my eyes. They don't wrtite them like that anymore,..do they..

Anyone else get chills listening to this song?

Ian Hunter is still one of the greatest of all time in Rock n Roll.

Long Live Ian Hunter. God rest Mick Ronson.

You know you're badass when the lead singer for The Zombies is your backup.

Truly awesome song,remember wen it came out, still rocks me today,another timeless classic, rock on forever

Ian Hunter sounds great at 80 years old and looks much younger.

Special thanks to Joe Elliot for all he had done for his Heroes Mick Ronson Ian Hunter and Mott the Hoople. And to share Def Leppard’s big night of being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Ian Hunter & Brian May to play Mine and Joe’s Favorite Song of All Time Absolutely Amazing Thanks Again Joe

It breaks my heart to see these rock gods aging! Love you all, love this song!💜💜💜

Love Brian playing Mick Ralphs legendary opening guitar lick.

Ian Hunter rocks. Saw him in 81 at University of Western Ontario with Mick Ronson. Awesome show awesome night. Saw him again at Rock and Roll Heaven in Toronto. Ian doesn’t need the rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame. He’s a Hall of Famer in his own right

Even though Bowie wrote the song, it will always be for me the Ian Hunter version that I remember/associate with.

Basically is Def Leppard feat. Ian Hunter, Brian May, Susanna Hoffs, Little Steven, Colin Blunstone

been a mott fan for 47 years now ive even got all the young dudes on my ringtone not bad for a 63 year old hahaha.

Bowie wrote the song and that's all.

Bowie wrote the lyrics, yes, but Mick Ralphs composed the opening and closing guitar chords. Incidentally, Mick wrote "Can't Get Enough" and "Moving On", for Mott before defecting to Bad Company and taking the songs with him.

Mott the Hoople KILLER band.

A fitting finale anthem composed by David Bowie, and which name checks, T.Rex, The Beatles and The Stones.

One of the greatest pop choruses ever written. God bless Bowie. Great performance !!!

You gotta induct Mott The Hoople "Ian Hunter" Hello?

"All the old dudes, playin this tu une, all the old dudes, playing this tune" 😂 love this, Ian Hunter sounds fantastic for his years, the great Brian May and the Def Leopard gang and all the backup singers, wonderful job all👍🏼✌🏼️

Ian Hunter. One of my rock n roll heros. Mott. One of the greatest bands ever.

No band ever deserved the title cult / legendary / than this lot . people still talk about them today {2021} .No one like them anybody who knows anything about music loves them . Long Live Mott the Hoople ........Im a dude dad !!!!

Bowie's arrangement and production on Mott's studio version of Dudes is pure genius. His anthem to the coming out movement of the early 70's is spot on.....

thank you ian hunter for all the years of happiness brought you will make generations to come happy

I was a Dude then in my 20's, and it still stands today in my late 60's. Keep on Rockin'!

I saw Mott The Hoople at the Fillmore East in 1971. Row RR @ $5.50! Up until that time Mountain was the Loudest Band I had experienced. Then Mott played their instrumental, "Thunderbuck Ram"....WOW!!! The Sound was more Physical than Aural!!!!!

david bowie genius masterpiece

Ian Hunter one of the best around

Joe Elliott was in music heaven on that stage with his heros.

One of my all-time favorites, Mott the Hoople rocks!

You know what I notice most about these R&R Hall of Fame videos? How strong the performances are by these old ass Boomers compared to many of the younger folk. I'm not trying to divide and conquer us by age like the media promotes. I'm saying as a Gen X'r (dob 3-20-76) that it would be a public service to do a documentary about this self evident fact and show the science to back up my opinion. That generation had more to rebel against even if that too was promoted by James Dean and Hollywood. They were more from a more natural world than this computer prison we call pop culture today. I don't get along with my Dad so hot even at 44 years old - me seeing him as part of the establishment but he has always had a cooler social life than me - he and his wife still dance after she has had knee replacements and they are way happier than I have been. Even if we were to say their generation was more unaware of how corrupt even the counter culture was that destroyed the family unit they have us beat in so many ways and I don't see that much good has happened in the 20 plus years since The Matrix said we would have a cyberpunk revolution. I would like to see this rock worship turn into a group energy that seeks to retain what is best about the natural human spirit as the computers continue to take us over. The nerds need to respect how people had more hands on experience at making choices without a view of what everyone else was doing like we have. I assume music was better in the past because people weren't glued to their phones and home entertainment so much other than listening to the same albums for so long they could play them from memory.

Mott and Tull need there due respect! Vote them in!

I met Ian at one of his shows in Chapel hill n.c a few years ago. Got to talk to him he posed for a few pictures with me and my wife, a real classy guy , one of the best song writers of all time..seen him in concert several times never disappoints .......live on Ian

WHY AREN'T IAN HUNTER AND MOTT THE HOOPLE IN" THE HALL OF FAME???????

It was the Golden Age Of Rock And Roll, and I was One Of The Boys, a Whiz Kid... Me and All The Young Dudes would drive All The Way From Memphis to play regular Saturday Gigs at a place called the Angel Of Eighth Avenue... Pearl 'n' Roy always wanted us to play their favorite songs, like Ballad Of Mott The Hoople and Hymn For The Dudes, and we'd gladly oblige... The Foxy Foxy girls would always be there, dancing in the front row... I saw Sweet Jane up in the balcony wearing a sexy mini skirt...she truly is a Rock And Roll Queen...and when she bent over, I saw The Moon Upstairs... Laugh At Me if you want, but I've always been a Sucker for short skirts...They make me want to be a "Sea Diver" if you know what I mean... Yeah baby...I'm Ready For Love..!

Susanna Hoffs is still hot as hell!

A couple of months before Ian's 80th Ronno would have been 74 tomorrow.

Bowie was a genius

Ian Hunter, living legend, end of....

RIP Bowie Freddie Steve Clark and Mick Ronson

Wow! What a great performance. Mott The Hoople and Ian Hunter need to be in the RRHOF! WTF! Comer on people, get real. RIP Pete Overend Watts and Mick Ronson and David Bowie; fuck we're getting when those dying aren't big band guys....

Ian Hunter is a medical miracle. I don't know how he does it. What a great performance.

Age 13 in '71...Bolan, Bowie, Ferry, Stones, Reed and then this after. 64 last week and listening transports me back in an instant. My first 2 albums were Electric Warrior and Ziggy. Music has gotten me through a lot of crap tines. Forever grateful. 🙏❤🙏

This would have be up amongst my Top 10 favourite songs of all time. I absolutely love it! Ian Hunter a rock music idol of mine!

Kick ass, most excellent, really an anthem... brings back the 70s when music was really good and had an uplifting purpose not trying to harm others with anger... push your agenda peacefully you'll gather more flies with honey than vinegar...

No ridiculous a mistake surely. Ian Hunter simply cannot be 81. Also!! The best version of 'Dudes' since the original. Love Brian too!!

Time refuses to touch Susanna Hoffs. Still stunning.

Induct Mott the Hoople into the Hall of Fame..... NOW!!!! This x 10,000

Sadly bowie not there to sing his own song with them

There aren't a lot of things I would still pay money to see....but this would have been one of them

One of the few performances to get the stiff-ass, HoF audience out of their chairs.

I honestly think Phil would go shirtless at a funeral for crying out loud!

82 YEARS OLD JUST INCREDIBLE!!!!

Brian May---Marvelous

Ian Hunter wrote so many classic glam-rock tunes, it must piss him off that he had to play a Bowie composition for the HOF. Brian May proves once again that he is a master in every genre.

God bless you Ian never stopped listening to your music. Cheers

Ian Hunter at 80. Looks great, sounds good.

Saw Mott circa 1974-75. Opening act was Iggy and Stooges. Never had more fun at and memories of a concert.

Mott The Hoople - one of the all-time great boogie bands!

Ian looks like a million dollars! Great performance by all!

imagine receiving this song as a gift ...

THANKS, for your precious music David Bowie and Rest In Peace where do you rest now, for this master-piece, this art-work, this song are fantastic, incredibled, amazing, dazzling, magnificent too much!!!

God...Susanna Hoffs is just so damn lovely 😍

Mick Ralphs is sorely missed

Thanks also to Bruce Dickinson to revealing it to my generation of late somethings. Which gets me thinking, when are Maiden going to get inaugurated into this esteemed order of musicology? Vai, Satch and Malmsteen too. Just putting it out there!

Brian May forever.

Incredible songwriter, Mott made some classic albums in the 70’s. Can’t think about glam rock without those guys and Bowie.

Wow, what a gloriously beautiful performance of, for me anyway, the best 70s song of all.

Mott was my fav band as a teenager and still a Ian Hunter fan

Brian did a superb job on that fantastic live performance. God bless them all x