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Line 137: ''Ziggy Stardust'' -- "It Ain't Easy" (Ron Davies) ''Aladdin Sane'' -- "Let's Spend the Night Together" ([[The Rolling Stones]]) ''Young Americans'' -- "Across the Universe" ([[The Beatles (band)\|The Beatles]]) ''Station to Station'' -- "Wild Is the Wind" (Johnny Mathis, though Nina Simone's version was the one that inspired Bowie's take) ** ''Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)'' -- "Kingdom Come" (Tom Verlaine) Line 153: * [[Creator Breakdown]]: ''Low'' was written and recorded while Bowie was starting to wean himself off cocaine, and while his marriage to Angela was showing fissures that would soon lead to divorce. That set the tone for both the album and its title. ** And this was the album where Bowie was ''recovering'' (it has been described, not inaccurately, as "a cocaine come down put to music"). His previous album, ''Station to Station'', was recorded in LA while Bowie was suffering a full-blown cocaine-induced psychotic breakdown. He has claimed in interviews he remembers nothing about the recording other than describing the guitar sound he wanted on the title track to the session musician, but there are many stories about his behaviour at the time. * [[Creator Thumbprint]]: Apocalypses, dystopias, cocaine, mental instability, celestial imagery, and science fiction imagery/subject matter turn up again and again. ''[[The Onion]]'''s article "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131018072029/http://www.theonion.com/articles/nasa-launches-david-bowie-concept-mission~~%2C2907~~,2907/ NASA Launches David Bowie Concept Mission]" is built around references to his "spacier" work, and mentions other common subjects of his when it notes that "the mission will primarily study paranoia, decadence, and the fluidity of sexual identity in a zero-gravity environment". There is also a reflective, often melancholy bent to his last three studio albums. * [[The Criterion Collection]]: Appears in three films that have made it into this august series: ''[[The Man Who Fell to Earth]]'' (also participated in the audio commentary for it), ''[[Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence]]'', and ''[[The Last Temptation of Christ]]''. He also figures into the special features on the ''[[La Jetée\|La Jetee]]'' disc via a French TV excerpt that looks at how the "Jump They Say" video directly homages that [[Short Film]], and another Criterion title, ''[[The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou]]'', has a soundtrack featuring [[Translated Cover Version\|translated cover versions]] of his songs. * [[Darker and Edgier]] / [[Lighter and Softer]]: His albums alternate between these a lot. ''Space Oddity'' -> ''[[Darker and Edgier\|The Man Who Sold The World]]'' -> ''[[Lighter and Softer\|Hunky Dory]]'' is one example—though ''Hunky Dory'' only counts as lighter musically, as lyrically it's incredibly dark. Line 202: * [[Last-Note Nightmare]]: "Space Oddity" has a particularly nasty one. * [[Lean and Mean]]: The Thin White Duke. * [[Leave the Camera Running]] / [[Throw It In]]: The closing track of ''Diamond Dogs'' ("Chant of the Ever-Circling Skeletal Family") ends with a tape loop, the result of a blunder in the studio that [https://web.archive.org/web/20140902090540/http://www.teenagewildlife.com/Albums/DD/COTECSF.html Bowie and company decided to keep in]. * [[Limey Goes to Hollywood]]: Bowie moved to the U.S., ultimately settling down in [[Los Angeles]], after the release of ''Diamond Dogs'' to work on courting American audiences (the Ziggy Stardust period was merely a cult success there); the Diamond Dogs Tour solely toured North America. During this period he recorded ''Young Americans'' and ''Station to Station'' and filmed ''[[The Man Who Fell to Earth]]'' (a British production shot in the U.S.)...the downside was his [[Creator Breakdown]] unfolding during all this; he didn't think well of L.A. for a long time afterward. * [[Limited Special Collectors' Ultimate Edition]]: Several of his albums have received this treatment, but none more so than ''Station to Station'' in 2010—the Special Edition included an additional two discs containing his much-bootlegged Nassau Coliseum concert from '76. The ''Deluxe'' Edition...[http://www.amazon.com/Station-Deluxe-5CD-DVD-3LP/dp/B003UTUQ3O/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1292665767&sr=1-1 oh my]...all for an album that has a less-than-40-minute runtime and six songs. Line 238: Industrial and electronic with ''1. Outside'' Mainstream alt-rock with ''Reality'' * [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: At the Video Game Lookalikes website, he [https://web.archive.org/web/20120120165430/http://www.videogamelookalikes.com/david-bowie.html warrants a separate page] due to the surprising number of characters who resemble him, including several from the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' franchise. There's even a [[Pokémon]], Zangoose, who resembles Bowie's famous ''Aladdin Sane'' cover! Castor in ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'' is based heavily on Ziggy Stardust. Brian Slade in ''[[Velvet Goldmine]]'' is [[Suspiciously Specific Denial\|most definitely]] ''[[Blatant Lies\|not]]'' based on David Bowie. 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