Mark Steel on Cameron's deep mourning for David Bowie

Funny

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...r-red-shoes-and-dance-the-blues-a6812976.html

 

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"Michael Portillo will present a Bowie special of his train journey programme in which he travels from Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads. "

 

I read that yesterday. Cameron's a lovely person, no arguments from me there, but I have a bit of sympathy with him on this. If I chose my desert island discs, no Bowie tune would get anywhere near the list. I must have written a million words on this BBS, quite a lot on music, and I might have mentioned Bowie once, tops. However, I was genuinely saddened earlier this week when hearing of his death. He's just always been there from when I first became aware of music right until present day when Heroes still moves me and Hunky Dory is still a cracking listen. His songs have become part of the public consciousness in a way that very few artists manage (Queen and The Beatles being the other two I would compare to him, in England at any rate). And when one of his songs comes on the radio, which they do regularly, they still sound good and fresh. You never turn them off, you sing along. I may not play many Bowie tunes on my MP3 player or my turntable, but you don't have to because they're around you all the time. Cameron may have used overblown language, he usually does, he's a bit of a tw@t, but I think the sentiment was genuine.

I've never heard Mark Steele speak of Bowie before, but I don't feel the need to question his credentials for whether or not he can feel sad.

Cheap shot imho.

 

To be honest my favourite bit was about blokes who only ever wears a suit and tie talking about how he broke down cultural fashion norms for them and the local newspaper leading with his milkman. Just thought it was a bit of semi-serious Charlie Brooker-eque parody. And given Cameron said his favourite song is Eton Rifles he dunt half leave himself open to it.

 

Wow

 

Did he actually say that because the interview I heard Cameron quoted 'Hunk Dory' as being his favourite Bowie album.

 

http://www.nme.com/news/paul-weller/84885

 

I am a big Mark Steel fan. Although I doubt if Mr. Cameron is. I saw Mark Sfeel live at Didcot a couple of years back. He was very good value. So much so that a couple who were on the late shift at the local Tesco warehouse had to leave half way through his second half much to his amusement. It was a very late finish.

 

Ah sorry, I thought you meant he'd said his favourite Bowie song was 'Eton Rifles'.