Bowie - Planet Earth is Blue.....
This is a quick memory about my childhood spurred on by the news of David Bowie's death.
I spent a good part of my elementary school years in my cousin's basement bedroom playing chess and listening to his records. He was (still is!) nine years older than I and those formative years opened my eyes. He had hundreds of albums. The Beatles, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Gentle Giant, Genesis, The Rolling Stones and so many other great artists and bands. One of them was Bowie.
Of the first ten album I ever bought two of them were Bowie's. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars was one I bought new at either Sam the Record Man on Ste-Catherine or Phantasmagoria on Parc near Sherbrooke. Cellophane wrapped with a 3.99 of 4.99 written in black marker across the cover. The second was Diamond Dogs - I bought that one used at Cheap Thrills (can't remember if that store was on Mountain, Stanley, or Drummond....one of those three anyway). That one likely cost a buck or so and seemed to be in good enough shape.
I clearly remember listening to them both lying on my bed face up staring at textured popcorn ceiling. There was no need of meditation in those days. It was music that carried me away and made me conscious of the moment - oblivious to past or future.
Future Legend opens up Diamond Dogs....
His music, his look, his eyes, his makeup, his sound, his weirdness. I did not realize it when I was young but it was his uniqueness that made him special. Provoking, passionate, insanely human and not afraid to show it.
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Let me know what you think about what you have just read. Please and thanks!
I spent a good part of my elementary school years in my cousin's basement bedroom playing chess and listening to his records. He was (still is!) nine years older than I and those formative years opened my eyes. He had hundreds of albums. The Beatles, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Gentle Giant, Genesis, The Rolling Stones and so many other great artists and bands. One of them was Bowie.
Of the first ten album I ever bought two of them were Bowie's. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars was one I bought new at either Sam the Record Man on Ste-Catherine or Phantasmagoria on Parc near Sherbrooke. Cellophane wrapped with a 3.99 of 4.99 written in black marker across the cover. The second was Diamond Dogs - I bought that one used at Cheap Thrills (can't remember if that store was on Mountain, Stanley, or Drummond....one of those three anyway). That one likely cost a buck or so and seemed to be in good enough shape.
I clearly remember listening to them both lying on my bed face up staring at textured popcorn ceiling. There was no need of meditation in those days. It was music that carried me away and made me conscious of the moment - oblivious to past or future.
Future Legend opens up Diamond Dogs....
His music, his look, his eyes, his makeup, his sound, his weirdness. I did not realize it when I was young but it was his uniqueness that made him special. Provoking, passionate, insanely human and not afraid to show it.
Thanks.
Let me know what you think about what you have just read. Please and thanks!
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