Well, this is a fun little artifact.
During a 1985 recording session while Bowie was laying down the theme song to Absolute Beginners, he had a little fun singing the song in the style of Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Neil Young, Iggy Pop, and Lou Reed.
As Bowie says in the session: he’s “just f*cking about”. Some of the musicians he impersonated during the session are dear of friends of his, so we know it’s all in good fun
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Listeners who went to school in the ’70s share “normal” things that used to happen that nobody talks about.
Steve Gorman makes Jane Seymour’s “life” by chatting with her about about a man she fell “madly in love” with on set.
‘It Could Have Been You’ appeared on Journey’s 1986 album Raised on Radio