1. The only art I’ll ever
study is stuff that I can
steal from.
--David Bowie
O
nly sound so vital at 69 years old
but so surprising as well.
Even over dinner Sunday evening,
after marveling at how bizarre yet inviting
were the various tracks of his that KCRW
pulled into their playlist, I felt ready to
revisit Bowie’s catalog to see what other
surprises awaited.
And that’s the lesson. With something like
five or six careers packed into a one-of-
a-kind, constantly shifting whole, David
Bowie isn’t an artist who can be summa-
rized in one album, much less some puny
playlist. But each song, each unpredictable
shift in his sound, image or even persona,
might bring you one step closer.
DAVID
BOWIE