On this day

[hankhank at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu]

On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Henry M wrote:

> Am I wrong, or is today both Elvis P's and David Bowie's birthday?

It is true: Mr. Jones is 50 today. Which leads me to notice that there was
space oddity in the air already when GR came out. It wasn't totally an all-
straight 60's atmosphere (to which GR has so often been connected) in 1972-73 
anymore, in popular music at least. Bowie, New York Dolls -- The Factory
having actually fallen down but dissiminated in the process. _Transformer_, 
T. Rex, Alice Cooper in a way, too, and that hybrid of a gorilla and
Liberace, Gary Glitter. Slade was also quite glittery in spite of their
Brit working class machoism. Roxy Music. Yes with the eunuch-like Jon
Anderson. And others subverting the "natural" "authenticity" of the
previous decade. Admittedly, America was still more into All-Man Brothers
and Co., wasn't it. 
  
Isn't there some similarity betw. Pynchon and Bowie, by the way, both
producing great stuff until their mid-thirties, after which...

Heikki