Sorry squire I scratched the record, Sorry squire I scratched the record, Sorry squire I scratched the record,
Sorry squire I scratched the record, Sorry squire I scratched the record, Sorry squire I scratched the record, Sorry squire I scratched the record, Sorry squire I scratched the record...
Whenever I listen to Satalite of Love on Transformer I still love Ronsons soft backing vocals and then Bowie's big "Ah ooh" on the clicky finish to the song.
The thing is, although I love Dylan, the Stones, Cohen and many others who came out of the sixties and I know Bowie first charted in 68/69 or whenever it was to me and my mates that he was ours.........ours from the seventies. He was the first great artist that WE were brought up with and that...
I always sort of thought he was playing himself in that film in a roundabout way. Remembering what the reaction to him was in his early days. I do love that film.
During the last music lesson of term when I was at school our music teacher - a complete eccentric and really rather nice chap - would say to us that because we had put up with Mozart, Schubert and the like we could bring our music in for him to listen too just to prove that he was open to all...