It’ll always be unfortunate for David Bowie (like he cares) that there are many people, like me, who will continue to prefer the period when he was at his most drug-addled and addicted. This is one of my absolute favourite Bowie songs, but the sad and shocking video absolutely makes it. Bowie, possibly at his lowest, filmed against a completely stark white backdrop. You don’t actually need a “hey kids, don’t do drugs” campaign - just make them watch this and then compare it to footage of a healthy Bowie. It’s all here - deathly pallor, the “where the hell am I?” distant gaze, the vague smiles to himself about a joke only he understands, and worst of all, a face that’s withered and shrunken so much that he appears to have temporarily developed a Gallagher-style monobrow. Happy birthday, Dame Dave - I just hope he hasn’t settled into too quite a retirement watching old episodes of BBC sitcoms downloaded from Bittorrent.
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