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  1. The Man Who Sold The World [and Bought the White House]

    "We passed upon the stair
    We spoke of was and when
    Although I wasn't there
    He said I was his friend

    Which came as some surprise
    I spoke into his eyes
    I thought you died alone
    A long, long time ago

    Oh no, not me
    I never lost control
    You're face to face
    With the man who sold the world

    I laughed and shook his hand
    And made my way back home
    I searched for form and land
    For years and years I roamed

    I gazed a gazely stare
    At all the millions here
    We must have died alone
    A long, long time ago

    Who knows? Not me
    We never lost control
    You're face to face
    With the man who sold the world

    Who knows? Not me
    We never lost control
    You're face to face
    With the man who sold the world"

    David Bowie, 1970.

    youtube.com/watch?v=u3MX-rUtS6
    #Fascism #ElonMusk #Inauguration2025 #TheManWhoSoldTheWorld #USPol

  2. The Man Who Sold The World

    The Thin White Duke's third album -- released on November 4, 1970 -- has been cited as inspiring the goth rock, dark wave and science fiction elements of work by artists such as Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, Gary Numan, John Foxx and Nine Inch Nails. #davidbowie #themanwhosoldtheworld #70srock #bluesrock #folkrock #glamrock Listen to The Man Who Sold The World by David Bowie on Amazon Music ...

    robinbannks.wordpress.com/2024

  3. Postscript: #ReevesGabrels was playing slide #guitar in “country-pop” band #RubberRodeo after their 1986 release produced by #DavidBowie collaborator Ken Scott (#music engineer on #SpaceOddity & #TheManWhoSoldTheWorld, producer on #HunkyDory, #ZiggyStardust, #AladdinSane).

    So a different and less-#1980s-bombast version of #Bowie’s #NeverLetMeDown could have happened then!

    Maybe critics wouldn’t have panned it so hard; maybe he wouldn’t have reacted with five years of #TinMachine. Maybe, maybe…