2. David BowieTonight
With David Bowie, there’s a dozen albums you could choose. I chose this because it was the first new David Bowie album that came out after I discovered him. After I bought [my first Bowie album] Ziggy I worked my way through the back catalogue because they’d been reissued, and they were selling for £2.99, which was pocket money. Then, when ’Blue Jean’ came out as a new single, I read all the press and looked at this photograph of him with blue makeup on. And then there was Jazzin’ For Blue Jean [a 21-minute promo film directed by Julien Temple], which premiered on The Tube, which I still have a very fond memory of – well, not even a memory because I do still occasionally watch it.
But yeah, Tonight, much maligned, and even Bowie said he wasn’t really into it when he was doing it and just wanted to get it over with as soon as possible. But I listened to it when I was trying to decide which Bowie record to choose and I still think there are good things about it. ‘Loving The Alien’ is just is such a great song and I guess he realised that too eventually, because he did start playing it live again in a different kind of form. I guess I just wanted to give it some love, because it’s one that’s so dismissed.
