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Old 27-05-2010, 07:37 PM   #816 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by King Pietersen View Post
Bowie's had a few real stinkers. Not quite sure how someone can go from writing beautiful songs like Letter to Hermione to something as dire as The Laughing Gnome; well, I do, it was all the drugs he was taking in the 60's, must have been particularly off-his-face when he wrote and recorded that tripe though.
IIRC he confessed to not remembering 1972, the year Ziggy Stardust was released.

Honestly, how some of those blokes survived that era is beyond me.
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