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by JR8 » Tue, 12 Jan 2016 4:07 am
[quote="earthfriendly"]"warm impermanence........."
He certainly understood needling irony.
I remember that song, 1969 IIRC, but it must have been still played by 'older brothers of friends' some years later as I doubt I encountered it before about 71/2/?. I recall I found it just awfully sad. Of course as a pre-teen then I didn't understand the artistic or deeper context, just the idea of a man sent to space who realises he is never coming back. The whole NASA programme was the huge thing across those years so it was a very current theme, as such.
Also striking is how hi-tech for the time the video was. Let's remember, EVEN having a video then was truly ground-breaking. But having oscilloscope patterns and so on... it was faaaaar out. And 1969, that's the same year as Woodstock, and here's Bowie in eye-shadow and with what really would later be considered a 'punk' hairstyle. It was way ahead of the times on several levels...
'Do it or do not do it: You will regret both' - Kierkegaard