Really love his new song. Im (fairly) young and my first bit of Bowie was all the stuff from Labyrinth (watched it over and over as a kid). Dunno why though but I'm almost listening to this new one on repeat!
Mate, I've been feeling all wistful for days now, ever since this new song of his soaked into my brain.
In amongst the meditating I've been doing on people I don't see anymore, places I miss, specific emotions that I intangibly 'recall' having felt at various times... I've just been giving some thought too to how much of an influence this Brixtonian (via Mars) gentleman has had on the shaping of my life and my person through music, film, art... you name it. And I didn't even exist during the entirety of the 1970s, his most fertile period!!
- Every Christmas since I was very young indeed, Bowie, rocking an utterly awesome festive jumper, introduces the timeless magic of
The Snowman into my family home.
- He's the fucking Goblin King ffs, a creature who I both loved and feared for many years of my childhood.
- One of my eariest memories of feeling genuinely moved by a live music performance was watching Bowie's performances at the Freddie Mercury Trubute concert in '92 (with Annie Lennox incidentally dressed up as Pris from
Blade Runner for some reason).
- The highlight of Kurt Cobain's last album released in the year he took his life was an early Bowie masterpiece, and it was during my Nirvana-obsessed period (which all 14-16 year olds in the Western world from Generation X onward must traverse, as a rite of passage) that I really began plunging deep into Bowie's back catalogue.
- A film that well & truly blitzed my tiny adolescent mind wide open, David Lynch's
Lost Highway, begins and ends with an odd little obscure gem of a Bowie track, from his supposed 'shit period':
http://www.youtube.com/v/NI61MEUT_ak^ All that before I'd even properly, seriously 'got into' his music as a curious mid-teen. And that's not even to mention
Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, all those strikingly strange music videos, the classic-TV 'Little Drummer Boy' duet with Bing... all of this would've stealthily seeped in to my mindscape long before I gave
Low my first full listen.
Influential isn't the word. Don't mean to gush like, but there it is.
I very much doubt I'll be able to stop crying the day he does leave us all permanently, so I'm totally appreciating these moments and buzzing for the new album, as well as hoping it all means he's over any mere-mortal health scares for a good while yet, if not forever.