RECORDS: DAVID BOWIE
Every David Bowie record review we ever published in this rag.
HUNKY DORY (1971)
David Bowie
David Bowie gained a slight measure of fame a few years back with”Space Oddity,” one of several fine songs on a better than average album. But the man seemed so obsessed with being the cosmic poet laureate during a summer in which the world was a bit sick of dream machines and science fiction that he created an album predestined for failure.
Early this year he returned, and, lo and behold he’d become the Space Oddity. David Bosie in his fur maxi coat and evening gown and Lauren Bacall hair, parading somewhat pathetically for attention. He paraded so well, in fact, that he nearly overshadowed a pretty fair album, The Man Who Sold the World. But where he really blew it was again with his fanaticism for space-age lyrics. “And gloomy browed with super fear their tragic endless lives.” What the hell? He got a lot of press party attention, but that was about it.