Sunday, May 11, 2014

Song of the Day # 113 - David Bowie

 
Bowie gets his turn. B-Side to Space Oddity and on the album of the same name. Not for everyone. This is early Bowie at his most full on.
 
' an innocent boy is threatened with hanging by his fellow citizens and is rescued by the mountain on which he lives, which destroys the village to save his life. 'Everything the boy says is taken the wrong way,' Bowie explained, 'Both by those who fear him and those who love him. I suppose in a way he's rather a prophet figure.' The og added another dimension: the boy's persecution was sparked by a fear that his madness might be contagious. Allowed to speak though he uttered nothing more insane than a cry of universal humanity: the hippie equivalent of Ziggy Stardust's 'You're not alone'. Twenty years later Bowie reflected ' I always felt I was on the edge of things, the fringe of things and left out. A lot of characters in those early years seemed to revolve  around that one feeling.'

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