David Bowie

So Starman, StAR Lab.

And also, of course, it immediately made me think of the David Bowie song, Starman, which has the lyrics, "Let the children lose it.

Let the children use it.

Let all the children boogie." So I am assuming at the StAR Lab [laughs] that Professor Starman lets the children boogie.

[upbeat music] Just for one day, we can be heroes.

One of my favorite, uh, David Bowie songs, uh, right there.

So welcome everybody, Friday, uh...

Yeah.

That's a risk.

And speaking of risk, did you hear how he once called David Bowie full of shit? That's some serious shade.

Wait, really? That's unexpected.

I wonder how Bowie felt about that at the time.

And it's the first and last stanza of the choral ode, the Hymn of the Great Ball, which is itself a prologue to Brecht's play from 1918, the Song of the Great Ball, der Choral vom großen Ball.

And in the past, I actually played the music for you guys of David Bowie singing that in translation.

I'm not going to do that again.

But I did put into the chat, for those of you who are interested, an English translation of the first and last stanzas of the ode to Baal, which are what she uses as her epigraph.

Yeah, before, yeah, as you mentioned in your book, Saul, it's interesting because, again, we want to focus on certain chapters.

And then when you come back at the end of the year and your book is out, we'll be out pretty much around the same time my David Bowie book will be out.

So it'll be a double science fiction, double picture show of Moses.

I hope I get a review copy.

But I do think that his impact on popular music writ large, like rock and roll in the broadest sense of the word, is the kind of thing that is actually indelible, is gonna be remembered 300 years from now.

You can look at the people who point to him as their number one inspiration, Michael Jackson, Prince, Mick Jagger, David Bowie.

I mean, like, people who are in the upper, upper echelons of, like, who is who in rock history.

I also think, you know, that extends even into hip-hop.

They just said 20th century music.

That's a good point, actually.

I think they're getting at the same thing that they recognize that his influence is just as broad as you stated, because you mentioned David Bowie and Mick Jagger.

And then like hip hop would not exist without James Brown and frankly, like outtakes from his band.

Ch-ch-changes.

David Bowie.

So here's the irony.

I also have changes, but I have Tupac's.

I'm only having friends like you on the show.

is that my clone, my AI clone has said to me, you really should delve through those concert reviews that you wrote back in the 1980s when you panned David Bowie and then had him on the phone the next year.

And he knew that you panned his concert and talked to you for a half an hour anyway.

So you're scratching your head.

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