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((short description|Song by David Bowie))
((About|the David Bowie song|the Nick Lowe song|I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass))
((Use British English|date=January 2014))
((Use dmy dates|date=January 2014))
((More citations needed|date=October 2016))
((Infobox song
| name       = Breaking Glass
| cover      = Bowie BreakingGlass.jpg
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[David Bowie]]
| album      = [[Stage (David Bowie album)|Stage]]
| B-side     = ((ubl|"[[Art Decade]]"|"[[Ziggy Stardust (song)|Ziggy Stardust]]"))
| released   = 17 November 1978
| recorded   = Either [[Philadelphia]], 28/29 April; [[Providence, Rhode Island]], 5 May or [[Boston]], 6 May 1978
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = [[Art rock]]
| length     = 1:52 (''[[Low (David Bowie album)|Low]]'' version) <br />3:28 (''Stage'' version)
| label      = [[RCA Records|RCA]]
| writer     = ((flatlist|
* [[David Bowie]]
* [[George Murray (musician)|George Murray]]
* [[Dennis Davis]]
))
| producer   = [[Tony Visconti]]
| prev_title = [[Beauty and the Beast (David Bowie song)|Beauty and the Beast]]
| prev_year  = 1978
| next_title = [[Boys Keep Swinging]]
| next_year  = 1979
))

"'''Breaking Glass'''" is a song by the English singer-songwriter [[David Bowie]]. It was co-written by Bowie, bassist [[George Murray (musician)|George Murray]] and drummer [[Dennis Davis]] in September 1976. Originally a track on Bowie's 1977 album ''[[Low (David Bowie album)|Low]]'', a reworked version of the song was a regular on the [[Isolar II – The 1978 World Tour|Isolar II Tour]]. A live version from that tour was used as the lead track on a 7-inch EP to promote his second live album, ''[[Stage (David Bowie album)|Stage]]'' in 1978. The EP reached number 54 on the UK Singles Chart in December 1978.

In the US, the track "Star" was chosen as the lead track for the live EP (with "What in the World" and "Breaking Glass" as B-sides), but failed to chart, while in Japan, "Soul Love" was released to promote ''[[Stage (David Bowie album)|Stage]]'' (with "Blackout" as the B-side).

Bowie performed "Breaking Glass" on his [[Isolar II – The 1978 World Tour|Isolar II]], [[Serious Moonlight Tour|Serious Moonlight]], [[Outside Tour|Outside]], [[Heathen Tour|Heathen]], and [[A Reality Tour|A Reality]] tours.

== Lyrics ==
The original song was uncompromising even by ''[[Low (David Bowie album)|Low]]''(('))s standards. The fractured lyrics are, like several songs written during Bowie's stay in [[Berlin]], introspective of his dark, drug-filled period living in America in 1975–1976. Its lyrics, when written out, look potentially more like a paragraph than a song, and when separated into phrases, the song has a disjointed feeling. The song is also curiously short, not spanning two minutes and only going through one verse.

The lines ''"Don't look at the carpet; I drew something awful on it"'' refer to Bowie's practice of drawing the [[Tree of Life (Kabbalah)|Tree of Life]] on the floor during that period, as he was interested in [[Aleister Crowley]] and [[Qabalah]] at the time.

== Track listing ==
# "Breaking Glass" (David Bowie, [[Dennis Davis]], [[George Murray (musician)|George Murray]]) – 3:28
# "[[Art Decade]]" (Bowie) – 3:10
# "[[Ziggy Stardust (song)|Ziggy Stardust]]" (Bowie) – 3:32

== Personnel ==
* [[David Bowie]] – vocals, production
* [[Carlos Alomar]] – lead guitar
* [[Ricky Gardiner]] – rhythm guitar
* [[George Murray (musician)|George Murray]] – bass
* [[Dennis Davis]] – drums
* [[Brian Eno]] – [[MiniMoog|Minimoog synthesizer]]
* [[Tony Visconti]] – production

== Live versions ==
* A spring 1978 live version recorded on the [[Isolar II – The 1978 World Tour|Isolar II Tour]] was released on ''[[Stage (David Bowie album)|Stage]]'' and on the above-mentioned single. This live version was also released as the B-side of the single "[[Star (David Bowie song)|Star]]" in 1978.  A summer 1978 performance from the same tour was included on ''[[Welcome to the Blackout (Live London ’78)|Welcome to the Blackout]]'', released in 2018.
* A live performance during the [[Serious Moonlight Tour]], filmed on 12 September 1983, was included on the [[Serious Moonlight (1983 film)|''Serious Moonlight'']] concert video (1984) and the identically-named live album included with the ''[[Loving the Alien (1983–1988)]]'' box set (2018) and released separately in 2019.
* Two separate live recordings of the song, performed during Bowie's 1995–96 [[Outside Tour]], appear on the live albums ''[[Outside Tour#Dallas, Texas (Ouvrez le Chien (Live Dallas 95))|Ouvre le Chien (Live Dallas 95)]]'' (2020) and ''[[Outside Tour#Birmingham, England (No Trendy Réchauffé (Live Birmingham 95))|No Trendy Réchauffé (Live Birmingham 95)]]'' (2020).
* A November 2003 live version recorded on the [[A Reality Tour]] was released on the ''[[A Reality Tour (album)|A Reality Tour]]'' album, in 2010.

== Other releases ==
* The song appeared on the following compilations:
* ''[[Chameleon (Bowie compilation)|Chameleon]]'' (Holland 1979) (studio version)
* ''[[Best of Bowie (1980 version)|The Best of Bowie]]'' (1980) (1978 live version)
* ''[[Sound + Vision (box set)|Sound + Vision]]'' box set (1989) (1978 live version)
* ''[[The Best of David Bowie 1974/1979]]'' (1998) (studio version)
* ''[[The Platinum Collection (David Bowie album)|The Platinum Collection]]'' (2005/2006) (studio version)
* It was released as a picture disc in the [[RCA]] ''Life Time'' picture disc set.
* An extended version of the studio recording of the song, originally released as a single in Australia, was made available in digital and CD formats for the first time in 2017, on ''Re:Call 3'', part of the ''[[A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982)]]'' compilation.<ref>((cite web |url=http://www.davidbowie.com/news/new-career-new-town-1977-1982-57146 |title=A NEW CAREER IN A NEW TOWN (1977–1982) – David Bowie Latest News |publisher=DavidBowie.com |date=2016-07-22 |access-date=2017-09-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140729155132/http://www.allaccess.com/hot-modern-ac/future-releases |archive-date=29 July 2014 |url-status=dead ))</ref>

== References ==
*Pegg, Nicholas, ''The Complete David Bowie'', Reynolds & Hearn Ltd, 2000, ((ISBN|1-903111-14-5))
*Wilcken, Hugo, ''Low'', Continuum International Publishing Group Inc, 2005, ((ISBN|0-8264-1684-5))

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[[Category:1978 singles]]
[[Category:David Bowie songs]]
[[Category:1977 songs]]
[[Category:Songs written by David Bowie]]
[[Category:Song recordings produced by Tony Visconti]]
[[Category:RCA Records singles]]

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