Hello listeners. This week's tune is kind of an obvious choice of subject matter, it's a collection of four Bowie related memories, one being a super early memory of hearing Pin Ups on my parents record player, the next one being when I was a teenager and an older friend of mine saying him and his girlfriend from his teenage years used to play Bowie records in her room and feel like they were someplace else, like they were part of something bigger than the small town nothing going on mentality that they were subjected to most of the time. The next is another earlier memory of Molly Meldrum asking Bowie about his sexual exploits on telly, Molly kinda PG tiptoed around bisexuality and Bowie laughed it off saying you can't believe everything you read, (this was super cool 80's Bowie, I think he was just pointing out how irrelevant that line of questioning was).
Then there's me playing Space Oddity to my kids on the acoustic guitar at bed times, and also Boys Keep Swinging, (they loved that one, I hammed it up good). Full circle, now my own kids are Bowie fans, in fact aside from the Beatles he's the only artist my youngest son can remember the name of and my eldest is turning ten on Thursday, he's old enough to proper dig the man and his songs, and he totally does. Losing David Bowie sucks hairy balls, he's put out some great tunes to say goodbye with but it's a guarantee that if he had more time there'd be more tunes.
I hope this is a nice listen anyways, it's a simple thing, like always, maybe you can relate, surely anyone who digs what I'm doing for some unknown reason definitely digs Bowie for all the obvious reasons.
Thanks for your time, here's a video too:
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