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David Bowie Memory Palace [part 14]

1990 [continued] 1990 also brought forth the completely unnecessary po-mo remix of “Fame ’90” as used in both the “Pretty Woman” OST as well as a promo vehicle for the “Sound + Vision” tour. It was something I saw on … Continue reading

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David Bowie Memory Palace [part 12]

1989 [continued] While 1989 got off to a great start with Bowie undergoing a rock colonic to blast all of the trite and ill-advised pop traits out of his system courtesy of Tin Machine, the end of the year featured … Continue reading

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David Bowie Memory Palace [part 11]

1988 After the Glass Spider Tour juddered through 1987 to a miasma of mixed signals, Bowie took some time off the following year for a re-think. I had not bought any of his contemporary albums by 1988 for as long … Continue reading

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David Bowie Memory Palace [part 10]

1986 [continued] Another soundtrack project [these were getting far too numerous for comfort] popped up before 1987 rolled around. Julien Temple’s “Absolute Beginners” project was given copious amounts of UK hype, given the Colin MacInnes origins of the film. His … Continue reading

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David Bowie Memory Palace [part 9]

1985 The next year brought the CD format into my life. By the summer of 1985, I had my first player. Soon, I was  trading in my vinyl [see: The Great Vinyl Purge] at used record stores for the shiny, … Continue reading

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David Bowie Memory Palace [part 8]

1983 When the hype machine started building up for “Let’s Dance” I was fully engaged. After all, I had been waiting over two years for a new Bowie album. The charts were full of his imitators, taking presumably inferior Bowie … Continue reading

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David Bowie Memory Palace [part 6]

1981 The year of 1981 shaped up like a Bowie party with no guest of honor. In England, the New Romantic movement; the Bastard Children of Bowie were all over the charts. Peaking peacocks. Steve Strange, who had been recruited for … Continue reading

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