Popular television shows have been named after it, people have gotten married to it. “Life on Mars?,” as fits its cinematic lyric, has become the Citizen Kane of Bowie songs-the youthful masterpiece, the epic, the best thing he ever did. I started working it out on the piano and had the whole lyric and melody finished by late afternoon. Workspace was a big empty room with a chaise lounge a bargain-price art nouveau screen (‘William Morris,’ so I told anyone who asked) a huge overflowing freestanding ashtray and a grand piano. Jumped off two stops into the ride and more or less loped back to the house up on Southend Road. ![]() I took a walk to Beckenham High Street to catch a bus to Lewisham to buy shoes and shirts but couldn’t get the riff out of my head. ![]() ‘Sailors bap-bap-bap-bap-baaa-bap.’ An anomic (not a ‘gnomic’) heroine. ![]() A really beautiful day in the park, sitting on the steps of the bandstand.
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