10 albums in 10 days - Day 10
Posted: 07 May 2020, 09:58
Day 10 - the final day of mentioning the 10 albums that most influenced the music you listen to.
Well finally, it's this one:
Like a lot of people I had heard Bowie Space Oddity and whilst I quite liked it I didn't really give him a second thought after that, until I heard 'Changes' on the radio and 'Oh You Pretty Things' which for some reason got played fairly regularly at well. I was living in Blackheath at the time, sharing a house with a friend, whilst at college in Bromley.
Soon after this I went to live in one room apartment in Beckenham, only to find out that I was living right above Bowie's half brother Terry and his wife Olga, this was just before Ziggy Stardust exploded onto the world. I only saw Bowie come to visit on one occasion, as he came to the front door wearing a very peculiar looking hat. Oddly I never saw any pictures of Bowie with this hat on until the 'Bowie At The Beeb' album was released and I'm sure it was the same hat - his 'bipperty bopperty hat' perhaps?
Sadly I didn't ever get to meet him though my girlfriend and I did go and have tea/coffee with Terry and Olga, who were both lovely to us, chatting about all sorts of things. I was sad to hear about what happened to Terry but never knew what became of Olga, as we moved elsewhere before Terry died.
Strangely enough my family had a few very minor connections with Bowie. My Mum owned an antique shop in Beckenham and Bowie and partner - Angie I would guess, would go in and browse and my cousin Chris was friend of Bowie, knew him at the Three Tuns and Bowie once asked him play guitar for him on the 'The Man Who Sold The World' album. Sadly, he couldn't because he had just opened his own antique shop, in fact Chris sold him the screen that is behind him on the cover of the MHStW album. He also tells the story about how Bowie went round to his parents' house one day to speak to Chris and how his very straight laced, strict but lovely dad opened the front door to this man wearing a dress with long flowing hair - he had a bit of a shock.
The album itself is up there with the very best of Bowie's work, sometimes I think it is his best - the variety, the melodies, the sound, just everything about it, it's just such a glorious album to listen to and then he unleashed Ziggy, wham bam thank you ma'am, but Hunky Dory was his starter for ten.
Going to cheat a little bit here because on the Facebook equivalent of this I notched up 12 albums and not 10 - the hazards of cutting and pasting and so I am going to include the final two with very little to say about them.
The first is Roxy Music's debut, sounded like nothing else at the time, truly original - 50's rockers from out of space, brilliant.
The second, a Kinks' collection from way back when, loved all the singles and Kwyet Kinks was the only E.P. I ever bought. Didn't get into their albums until a little later but long ago made up for that but this collection of tracks was superb, love it, since frequently updated by any other comps.
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Well finally, it's this one:
Like a lot of people I had heard Bowie Space Oddity and whilst I quite liked it I didn't really give him a second thought after that, until I heard 'Changes' on the radio and 'Oh You Pretty Things' which for some reason got played fairly regularly at well. I was living in Blackheath at the time, sharing a house with a friend, whilst at college in Bromley.
Soon after this I went to live in one room apartment in Beckenham, only to find out that I was living right above Bowie's half brother Terry and his wife Olga, this was just before Ziggy Stardust exploded onto the world. I only saw Bowie come to visit on one occasion, as he came to the front door wearing a very peculiar looking hat. Oddly I never saw any pictures of Bowie with this hat on until the 'Bowie At The Beeb' album was released and I'm sure it was the same hat - his 'bipperty bopperty hat' perhaps?
Sadly I didn't ever get to meet him though my girlfriend and I did go and have tea/coffee with Terry and Olga, who were both lovely to us, chatting about all sorts of things. I was sad to hear about what happened to Terry but never knew what became of Olga, as we moved elsewhere before Terry died.
Strangely enough my family had a few very minor connections with Bowie. My Mum owned an antique shop in Beckenham and Bowie and partner - Angie I would guess, would go in and browse and my cousin Chris was friend of Bowie, knew him at the Three Tuns and Bowie once asked him play guitar for him on the 'The Man Who Sold The World' album. Sadly, he couldn't because he had just opened his own antique shop, in fact Chris sold him the screen that is behind him on the cover of the MHStW album. He also tells the story about how Bowie went round to his parents' house one day to speak to Chris and how his very straight laced, strict but lovely dad opened the front door to this man wearing a dress with long flowing hair - he had a bit of a shock.
The album itself is up there with the very best of Bowie's work, sometimes I think it is his best - the variety, the melodies, the sound, just everything about it, it's just such a glorious album to listen to and then he unleashed Ziggy, wham bam thank you ma'am, but Hunky Dory was his starter for ten.
Going to cheat a little bit here because on the Facebook equivalent of this I notched up 12 albums and not 10 - the hazards of cutting and pasting and so I am going to include the final two with very little to say about them.
The first is Roxy Music's debut, sounded like nothing else at the time, truly original - 50's rockers from out of space, brilliant.
The second, a Kinks' collection from way back when, loved all the singles and Kwyet Kinks was the only E.P. I ever bought. Didn't get into their albums until a little later but long ago made up for that but this collection of tracks was superb, love it, since frequently updated by any other comps.
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