”The children of the summer’s end gathered in the dampened grass, we played our songs and felt the London sky resting on our hands / It was God’s light, it was ragged and naive / It was heaven,”
– Memory of a free festival (Space Oddity, 1970)
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”I will be king, and you, you will be queen… Nothing will keep us together / We can beat them for ever and ever / We can be heroes, just for one day”
– Heroes, 1977
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”This is Major Tom to Ground Control / I’m stepping through the door / And I’m floating in the most peculiar way / And the stars look very different today.”
– Space Oddity, 1970
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82 Bowie favorites:
”I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman / I’m living on.”
– Quicksand (Hunky Dory, 1971)
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