![]() ![]() There’s certainly no clear narrative regarding the Berlin triptych, which, depending on how you look at it, couldn’t have happened without one mentioning at least five or maybe six interconnected records, including two under the name of Iggy Pop. ![]() ![]() That assumption is as misleading as it is fallacious. In the same way that conventional wisdom told us for too long that disco sucked, or that punk toppled prog leading to some kind of year zero, it has been assumed that Bowie suddenly rocked up in Berlin with Iggy Pop, knocked the drugs on the head, and then made three lauded albums of experimental electronica with Brian Eno at his side. It’s in great danger of becoming an immobile, sterile fascist that constantly spews its propaganda on every arm of the media”ĭavid Bowie supposedly changed musical styles as capriciously as he changed his hairstyles during the 1970s, and yet what’s rarely discussed is how difficult - and even painful - that process sometimes was. “Rock & roll has been really bringing me down lately. ![]()
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