Track of the Week - 26 January 2020
This week saw the fifth anniversary of me starting this weekly feature. Flown by hasn't it? Have I proved the point that I didn't know I wanted to prove yet? Can I stop now? (Probably not.)
We had the second most influential group of all time in Ramones last week so how about the most influential solo artist ever to follow up? (Lot of question marks this week.)
Singer, songwriter, actor, genius David Bowie had been playing music for about ten years, with little success in the main, before he released character/alter-ego Ziggy Stardust on the world. The 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars is regarded as one of the best of all-time and has sold upwards of 7.5m copies.
The album opens with the magnificent, apocalyptic Five Years, a tale of an Earth doomed to destruction (for reasons undisclosed in the song.)
In other news this week the Doomsday Clock was set to 100 seconds to midnight. This 'symbol of global catastrophe' is now at it's closest time to midnight since it was first conceived in 1947.
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