Tuesday, January 8, 2013

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID BOWIE!!!! WHERE ARE WE NOW?

David Bowie is lucky number 66!!! Happy Birthday to him, but really LUCKY US for his PRESENCE on this planet!!!

I swear somedays I think the only reason I came to this incarnation was to hear David Bowie sing.

And that pretty much makes the whole thing worth it.  So THANK YOU DAVID BOWIE for the new single:



I cannot stop listening.  And the film that is the music video is just stunning and beautiful.

Perfect.  So breathtakingly fantastically perfect.

And the lyrics-- just layered, and so many echoes, just even on the first listening to it.

A T.S. Eliot Wasteland translated to the Post World War 2 European experience.  The legacy of loss- so different from the U.S. and the fat cat Baby Boomer generation.

European nations did not revel in unbelievable wealth and technological advances in the 1950's- they struggled to rebuild decimated countries and adjust to life with new iron curtains and dividing walls.

And Germany has been forever changed.  Every street and alley; every corner, every depot.

For Bowie here, too, are years that he spent-- often with "Jim", that is, Iggy Pop-- shooting up and ending up very desolate.

The clean up from those lost Berlin years would become the album Scary Monsters (Super Creeps) and the song "Ashes to Ashes" in particular.

But I think there may also be a hearken back to We Are The Dead.

I have to listen to the single ten thousand more times-- and I cannot wait for the album!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID ROBERT JONES AKA BOWIE!!!!

I am so so thankful to you for your music and your life!!!!!!

AS LONG AS THERE'S YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


3 comments:

  1. Nothing of any consequence has issued forth from Mr. Bowie since Ziggy played guitar.
    Or so my Tutor says.

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  2. That is so sad to hear about your Tutor's hearing loss. Does it affect everything or just his Bowie listening skills. Well, we all have our problems, I am sure Tutor is lovely otherwise.

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  3. ".....That is so sad to hear about your Tutor's hearing loss......"

    Now THAT is funny!
    The Tutor has questionable tastes. As far as being otherwise lovely, the Jury is still out.

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