‘Gee, my life’s a funny thing / Am I still too young?’
typed for your pleasure on 11 January 2016, at 9.03 pm
Admittedly, the first Bowie album I ever owned, bought in the mid-Eighties, was ‘Changesonebowie’ on vinyl, and as that’s a compilation release, it doesn’t officially count. There was a reference to that exact same thing in an episode of The Venture bros, which isn’t surprising, as creators Doc Hammer and Christopher McCulloch are Bowie fans, like any sensible person would be. But apart from the varied range of music he created over five decades — including the dodgy pop phase he was in between 1983 and the mid-Nineties — and the unique sartorial sense that was equally his hallmark, I think the greatest takeaway that I got from Bowie is that his non-stop inventiveness made it okay to be unusual and left of centre, and if for some reason the world doesn’t catch up with you, then you can still stand apart and be your own person.
Clichéd as it is to say, but there will never be anyone like David Bowie. Everyone else will always be in his shadow
In such an early song
I heard a rumour from Ground control
Oh no, don’t say it’s true’
Random similar posts, for more timewasting:
Moving, on a molecular level / Needs more cowbell on September 12th, 2007
On Stereolab / Once again, again with the interviews on March 9th, 2006
