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David Bowie & Mick Ronson - Moonage Daydream
I could literally write an entire essay enthusing about the Bowie’s 70s era. My favourite periods being specifically the Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane right through to the Berlin sessions. All loved for different reasons but all loved.
This performance of Moonage Daydream captures the creativity, charisma, spirit, vision and panache of Bowie at his peak. For me it’s in iconic performance with Bowie all snake-hipped and mysterious as his alien alter-ego. However the song is underpinned with Mick Ronson’s guitar riffs and soloing. Like all good front men, Bowie has a guitar god as his foil and Ronson himself is a creative equal that makes the performance.
I say it with a sigh and a feeling of immense flush of nostaligia (I grew up in a household where we listened to Bowie) but is there any modern recording artist who can match Bowie’s for pure style, creativity and raw charisma? All we have to look forward to these days is Kasabian and X-Factor and that really is depressing.