Mott The Hoople were a mess of contradictions – exciting, rambunctious and loose, yet they often bared their soul, self-mythologizing their lives and history in their songs, but never coming across as egocentric narcissists.
David Bowie
In some ways, Wooxdmansey’s account gives a more grounded view of the Ziggy years, but it can also be seen to depressingly demythologize this magical time in rock music history and in the lives of seventies glam-rock starchildren nostalgically holding onto a consciously skewed mental image of that golden era in this age of Trump and terror.
As has been our tradition over the past few years, here is the top 30 albums for 2016 according to The Upside News.
If you revelled in the ground-breaking work Bowie was doing in the mid to late seventies and then dreamed what he might be up to forty years later, then Blackstar would be a worthy answer.
Listen to David Bowie’s new song ‘Blackstar’ and watch the video clip here.
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