You literally have to be living on Venus, to have not heard about the passing of David Bowie. I was so sad to hear it and I know that he meant so much to so many people, from the many tributes on Social Media and of course, the press.
It is funny, I rarely buy records or CD's. My biggest collection is, of course, Steely Dan and it goes without saying, The Moody Blues. I also have all 30 Seconds to Mars CD's, but that is a total of 4, so it is not difficult. As to other performers, it is maybe one or 2 albums or CD's that hang around my house.
When it came to David Bowie, I had a cassette that I got a recording of, in 1977. After a bit of detective work, I figured out that Changesone came out a year earlier. Why did I get this? For me, my listening to David Bowie began when I was in college. I saw the movie "The Man Who Fell To Earth" at the school and I consider it the best one I saw, during my time in Oswego.
My love of Bowie's songs, go back to a party in Onondaga (a dorm), in my final year at school. It was a great party, in a suite with 3 bedrooms, so there was plenty of room to party. What were they playing? David Bowie. If they played anything else that evening, I have no memory of it. Now Bowie, I remember. These two songs specifically, "Rebel Rebel" and "Suffragette City". I don't think I had ever heard those songs before, but they are indelibly imprinted in my brain and when I got home, a few months later, I took care of the fact that I didn't have any of his songs. I played that CD, all the time, in the two years I spent at home in NY, post college.
These songs were the rock, that made me a Bowie Fan.
Side one
"Space Oddity" (from Space Oddity, 1969) – 5:14
"John, I’m Only Dancing (Sax version) (from the non-album single of the same name, 1972) – 2:43
"Changes" (from Hunky Dory, 1971) – 3:33
"Ziggy Stardust" (from Ziggy Stardust, 1972) – 3:13
"Suffragette City" (from Ziggy Stardust) – 3:25
"The Jean Genie" (from Aladdin Sane, 1973) – 4:03
Side two
"Diamond Dogs" (from Diamond Dogs, 1974) – 5:56
"Rebel Rebel" (from Diamond Dogs) – 4:30
"Young Americans" (from Young Americans, 1975) – 5:10
"Fame" (Single edit) (Bowie, Carlos Alomar, John Lennon) (from the single RCA 2579, 1975 and Young Americans) – 3:30
"Golden Years" (from Station to Station, 1976) – 3:59
My Husband and I enjoyed his songs and videos on MTV and of course, his concerts on TV. That was the thing about David, he never disappointed.
Godspeed to you.
Truthfully I never really got into Bowie. As a matter of face when I heard of his death & it happen in New York, I was very surprised, I thought he lived anywhere else. Godspeed to you.
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