RANDAL HUISKENS - featured artwork "David Bowie (Ziggy Stardust) #1"
"The first David Bowie song I ever heard was 'Golden Years.' It was the mid-seventies, I was only 10
years old, and that song was a hit on the radio at the time. I had no idea who the artist was, I just
knew that every once in a while this song would come on the radio, a song that sounded like no other
song I had ever heard. I would always stop what I was doing and wait for that great vocal run near the
end. It wasn't long after that I heard 'Space Oddity' for the first time and saw David Bowie perform it
on a TV special. But it was years later before I realized that the two songs were done by the same
person.
About 5 or 6 years later, a friend loaned me the Diamond Dogs album, and I became totally hooked on
Bowie. I played the hell out of that record. Then I discovered The Man Who Sold The World, and that
became a permanent fixture in my playlist. As I grew older, I started branching out into other musical
styles, and David Bowie was there all the way. Of course, that's one of the great things about David
Bowie. His music ran the gamut of styles and influences. I maintain my collection of Bowie music and
play it often... there is a record for almost any mood that I may have."
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