Ezeregy dal, amit érdemes meghallgatni: 0307 David Bowie: The Man Who Sold the World (1970) Writer: | David Bowie Producer: | Tony Visconti Label: | Mercury Album: | The Man Who Sold the World (1971) One week in 1970, David Bowie’s telephone rang every day at the exact same time—but whenever he answered it, there was no one there. Stoked up on thoughts of Tibetan Buddhism and the occult writings of Aleister Crowley and H. P. Lovecraft, Bowie became convinced that it was his late father trying to contact him from the next world. Such was the mentality that produced the title track of his third LP, a vignette that co-opted the “man who wasn’t there” from Hearst Mearns’s 1899 nursery rhyme “Antigonish,” which had previously been set to music in the swing era. The singer’s voice was drenched with phasing to suit the spooky narrative, and double-tracked at emphatic moments (at the word “surprise,” the two Bowies sing with comically varied intonation). New recruit Mick Ronson, fresh from gigging with Bowie and bassist Tony Visconti in the short-lived superhero-rock band Hype, provided the record’s spiraling, Eastern-flavored guitar motif. Hidden away on an album full of proto-metal—and with a controversial cover on which the singer reclined like a mermaid in a “man’s dress” from Mr. Fish—the song was overlooked by the record-buying public. A post-Ziggy reissue of Bowie’s back catalog in 1972 brought it to wider attention, but it achieved its greatest recognition thanks to an unplugged cover by Nirvana, released posthumously in 1995. youtu.be/d-0UrJHYGAY
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