I was never quite sure of what real position Terry had in my life,
whether Terry was a real person or whether I was actually referring to
another part of me. Bowie, on his half-brother, Terry Bur...
Fifteen years ago today, I published the first entry on a WordPress
blog that I’d set up a few days earlier. It was a
six-paragraph essay on David Bowie’s first single, “Liza Jane.”
My i...
Do They Know It’s Christmas? (Live Aid, 1985).Bowie’s 2013
Christmas “Elvis” Message.Peace on Earth/The Little Drummer
Boy.Peter and the Wolf.The Snowman.Feed the World. Has it been anoth...
Thirty years ago today, David Bowie released the soundtrack of The
Buddha of Suburbia, a four-part serial which was, at the time, being
aired on Wednesday nights on BBC2. More accurately, this re...
Lloyd Cole, “The Idiot” (On Pain, 2023). “We’ll cycle to the
discotheque,” Iggy Pop says, a smile cracking across his face, as he
and Bowie sit in the limo, stalled in Los Angeles traff...
You often ask me why I don’t write. I could answer you by saying I
have no sense of history. It costs me an entire day’s effort to
think about the next day. Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Tres Tr...
Time Isn’t Passing, It’s You Passing Graffito on a broken piece of
the Berlin Wall, ca. late 2000s By the summer of 2012, the obscure
song-by-song David Bowie blog that I’d started on a whi...
Do They Know It’s Christmas? (Live Aid, 1985).Bowie’s 2013
Christmas “Elvis” Message.Peace on Earth/The Little Drummer
Boy.Peter and the Wolf.The Snowman.Feed the World. Hello! I hope
you...
1. The first sound that you hear, creeping in via Ken Scott’s
faders, is Woody Woodmansey’s kick drum and closed hi-hat, in 3/4
time, with a snare hit (flutter) on the third beat, then (wham!...
“Heathen” kind of felt right, in as much as it was about the
un-illuminated mind. It was an idea, a feeling, a sense of what 21st
Century man might become, if he’s not already: someone who...
