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Quotation of the Day for March 30, 2012"Because of the way Bowie ceaselessly reinvented himself, from his first gig, playing saxophone with the Kon-Rads at the Bromley Tech PTA school fête in June 1962, to his apparent retirement five or six years ago, through 27 studio albums, an estimated five thousand live shows, some of the best and a fair few of the worst songs of the last fifty years, the cliché is to call him a chameleon. Bowie got in with the description first, in "The Bewlay Brothers", the wilfully opaque final song on Hunky Dory (1971): "He's chameleon, comedian, Corinthian and caricature." But he was more like the very hungry caterpillar, munching his way through every musical influence he came across: much of Hunky Dory consists of pastiches of Bowie's musical heroes of the 1960s - John Lennon, Syd Barrett, Anthony Newley, Bob Dylan, the Velvet Underground. Which would make Ziggy Stardust the beautiful butterfly that emerged from the chrysalis." - Thomas Jones, in "So Ordinary, So Glamorous" from the London Review of Books. Submitted by: Jennifer Labach Mar. 29, 2012  |
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