Thin White Duke Turns 65

The Guardian ^ | Friday 6 January 2012 | Alexis Petridis

[Calusa]

It's a cliche when a rock star reaches 65 to mention the time when it didn't look like they'd make pensionable age, but with David Bowie who marks the milestone on Sunday, it's almost unavoidable. Look at a picture of him in the mid-70s, when he was ravaged by cocaine, living off a diet of red peppers and milk and so paranoid that he apparently kept his own ***** in a fridge lest persons unknown steal it: this is not a man destined to make old bones.

[Larry Lucido]

Happy birthday!

[Secret Agent Man]

That is probably the worst recording ever made. And gayest too.

[Amberdawn]

(We Can Be) “Hero’s” is mine.

[AppyPappy]

A freeper played in concert with him. I met him at the MFJ

[rabidralph]

Young Americans was my favorite in high school and I loved the songs he put out later on, like Blue Jean and Let’s Dance.

[yup2394871293]

Ground control to major tom....

[InvisibleChurch]

happy birthday to the man who sold the world .... way before obama did it

[DIRTYSECRET]

Saw him 3 times in concert. Money well spent.

[eclecticEel]

Don’t you wonder sometimes
About sound and vision

Blue, blue electric blue
That’s the color of of my room
Where I will live

Blue, blue

Pale Blinds drawn all day
Nothing to do, nothing to say

Blue, blue

And I will sit right down
Waiting for the gift of sound and vision

And I will sing
Waiting for the gift of sound and vision

Lifting into my solitude
Open my head
Don’t you wonder sometimes
About sound and vision

[DC Packfan]

Thanks, I know I’m insane, I just don’t tell anybody! OOPS.

Does the refrain from ‘Five Years’ go through anybody else’s head every time you hear some talking head spouting about the world’s going to end because of something we’re doing?

We’ve got five years, that’s all we’ve got,
We’ve got five years, my brain hurts alot!

[Dr. Sivana]

That is probably the worst recording ever made.

Not quite. Don't forget Jagger and Michael Jackson's "State of Shock".

And anything by Yoko Ono.

[Dr. Sivana]

From the article:
Bowie's music was never about nostalgia

The entire Pinups album was just that. There's also a nostalgic feel to parts of Hunky Dory.

For years I have used the "Young Americans" album as the dividing line between "old" and "new" music.

That album, Station to Station and Side Two of both Low and Heroes were not well received when released. Now they are considered classics. Station to Station is the most forgotten, even though it has a couple of his biggest hits.

[SuzyQue]

Urine.

[Dr. Sivana]

And, because this is Free Republic, we must note Bowie's presiction of OWS:

And in the death
As the last few corpses lay rotting on the slimy thoroughfare
The shutters lifted in inches in temperance building High on Poacher's Hill
And red mutant eyes gaze down on Hunger City
No more big wheels

Fleas the size of rats sucked on rats the size of cats
And ten thousand peoploids split into small tribes
Coveting the highest of the sterile skyscrapers
Like packs of dogs assaulting the glass fronts of Love-Me Avenue
Ripping and rewrapping mink and shiny silver fox, now legwarmers

(Fro "Future Legend")

"Cygnet Committee" seems to size up what a second Obama term might bring. (About Soros: "We had a friend, a talking man.. who talked of many powers he had. Not of the best of men, but ours. We used him, we let him use his powers. We let him fill our needs, now we are strong. But the road is coming to its end. Now the damned have no time to make amends.")

[Dr. Sivana]

We’ve got five years, my brain hurts alot!

Someone should count all of the Bowie lyrics with the word "brains" in it. Frightening:

I can get it started:

Day after day, they take some brain away. They turn my face around, to the far side of town. And tell me that it's real, then ask me how I feel." (All the Madmen, The Man Who Sold the World)

[Beowulf9]

http://youtu.be/VbpMpRq6DV4

Wild is the wind...gorgeous.

[DC Packfan]

Ziggy sucked up into his mind.

Does that count?

[38special]

Nothings going to save him in his golden years?

[Dr. Sivana]

No, we really want the bodily organ. Here’s another from “Time”:

“The sniper in the brain,
regurgitating drain
Incestuous and vain,
and many other last names”

(Rest of lyrics extremely indecent, along with 90% of the entre Aladdin Sane album)

[Free Vulcan]

I’m a Ramones fan.