Thursday's Child (David Bowie Song)

Thursday's Child (David Bowie Song)

"Thursday's Child" is a song written by David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels for the album 'hours...' in 1999. As with some of the other songs from 'hours...' it was originally written for the computer game Omikron - The Nomad Soul from 1999.

This was the first single lifted from 'hours...' and preceded the album by two weeks. An error from EMI UK led to a moderate number of mispressed UK CD version 2 being released; most of which made it to the US retail and online CD market. These CDs were indistinguishable from the correct CD version 2, but had the audio tracks from CD version 1 instead of CD version 2. They did however have the correct "Thursday's Child" video on the enhanced CD portion. The mispressed CDs quickly became a collector's item.

In a performance for VH1 Storytellers, he revealed that the title of the song was prompted by the memory of the autobiography of actress Eartha Kitt. The book, also called Thursday's Child, used to be a favourite of his when he was 14 years old.

A clip from the song was featured in the fourth season premiere of the MTV cartoon Daria.

A "Rock mix" of the song was also released on the single with heavier sounding drums and more guitar.