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REDUX: The Mid-80s Malaise: 1983 – The Year David Bowie Became Fallible
July 22, 2013 What was it about the mid-80s that made it the harbinger of artistic disaster for so many artists that I had previously thought the world of? By 1985, there seemed to be a perfect storm of political … Continue reading
Posted in Blast From The Past, Bowie, Core Collection, Mid-80s Malaise
Tagged 1983, David Bowie, Let's Dance
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David Bowie Memory Palace [part 27]
1999 [continued] When I did some poking around [Discogs didn’t exist yet, but Bowie’s discography was fairly widespread on the web even in 1999], I discovered that now that I was actually contemplating buying copies of “Let’s Dance,” “Tonight,” and … Continue reading
Posted in Bowie, Core Collection
Tagged 1983, 1984, 1995, David Bowie, DLX RM, Let's Dance, Tonight
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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
Posted in Bowie, Core Collection
Tagged 1983, career lows, David Bowie, Let's Dance, Never Let Me Down, Tonight
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The Mid-80s Malaise: 1983 – The Year David Bowie Became Fallible
What was it about the mid-80s that made it the harbinger of artistic disaster for so many artists that I had previously thought the world of? By 1985, there seemed to be a perfect storm of political and social currents … Continue reading
Posted in Core Collection, Mid-80s Malaise
Tagged David Bowie, Let's Dance, Mid-80s Malaise
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