Oh! you pretty things!
Cheer up, Yankees, we all knew the world was ending...
I remember the first time I heard this album in the cool attic bedroom of my friend Brigid Skelton when we were both 17. That year, I was listening one night to the great (and much lamented) KYYX radio station down in Seattle and they were giving away free tickets to the upcoming Serious Mooonlight Bowie tour. The skill-testing question was "What was the name of David Bowie's first commercial album". A few minutes later some guy came on and said, "Uhhh was it Changes 1?"
What? What?!
What kind of a stupid answer was that? EVERYone knows it was Hunky Dory. I called and won the tickets. Then I told the radio guy that I lived in Victoria and could he mail them?
No. No he couldn't.
I didn't see Serious Moonlight, thought by many to be Bowie's greatest. I had to settle for Glass Spider...
All my friends went to Serious Moonlight...
Boooo...
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I also wanted to see Serious Moonlight although being a bit younger I would never have received parental consent. It was such a bummer.
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