And these children that you spit on, As they try to change their worlds…
I know Will Young is the kind of artist to make BowieNetters switch off automatically, but he’s really not a bad person and he has good taste, a good sense of humour, and he knows his own music really isn’t all that much cop…though I don’t mind admitting I personally enjoyed the chorus tune of Leave Right Now.
Anyway, young Will was the subject of yesterday’s Soundtrack Of My Life feature in
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Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (1973)
I didn’t really ‘get’ David Bowie until a few years ago, when I watched a documentary on his 1973 US Spiders From Mars tour. I texted my ex-boyfriend, who is obsessed with Bowie, to tell him I’d finally got it. It was a revelation. If I were a teenager back then I’d be dressing up like him.
It makes things now seem a bit shit and tame, and after watching it I thought, ‘I may as well stop music because it’s pointless compared to what Bowie did three decades ago.’ It’s amazing theatre, with tricks like going up on a giant telephone. He’s really sexy, but sexless at the same time.
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I think Will is actually recalling the Cracked Actor documentary, but I’m sure everybody knows where he’s coming from.
Also in the piece there is another section entitled: The record that started it all. Here’s a bit from it…
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Peter And The Wolf Prokofiev (1936)
My gran had a record player, and she had a sunroom at the top of her bungalow where we listened to this. She threw away her record, which I wish she hadn’t, because I’m sure someone fabulous like Peter O’Toole narrated it. It’s the only music I remember from when I was really young, four or five.
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Well, I can’t find any record of Peter O’Toole having narrated Peter And The Wolf. And given that the above Bowie-narrated version is thirty years old, I’m wondering if Will was actually a fan of David Bowie’s voice much earlier than he realises.
Will’s album, Let it Go, is out on September 29th and his single, Changes, is released on September 14th. However, the title of the single is the only thing the track shares with the Bowie song of the same name.