“Classic Rock ’n’ roll star, Just watch me now“
The January 2015 issue of Classic Rock magazine has a two-page, nine out of ten review of Nothing Has Changed – The Very Best Of Bowie. (An album which still resides in the UK Top 40)
The review is by David Quantick and here’s an excerpt:
“But the real fun lies in the triple CD, the one with the very forbidding, more recent photo of Bowie looking through a glass darkly. The most striking thing about this collection – apart from the fact that it has 60 songs on it – is that the running order is in reverse, beginning with Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime) and ending with Liza Jane, Bowie’s debut single as Davy Jones And The King Bees, from 1964.
Fifty years, then, going backwards in a spiral like a Tardis of pop. It’s a risky device – it puts the listener into a head-spin – but here it works. It gives proper prominence to the past 20 years of Bowie’s career, from his return with The Next Day to the chunky rock of Reality and the stately brilliance of Heathen.“
The January 2015 issue of Classic Rock is out now.
Reviewer David Quantick is the same DQ who will be interviewing Woody Woodmansey this coming Sunday (14th) that we told you about recently. A recap never harmed anybody…
Woody will also be doing a talk on David Bowie’s lesser known songs in the 1970-73 era at The Hospital Club on Sunday 14 December at 4pm. Woody will be talking to music journalist and writer David Quantick; shining a light on the stories behind Bowie’s outtakes, obscure album tracks and demos from that period: