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David Bowie (1947-2016)
Rock and roll icon David Bowie died Sunday at age 69, after secretly battling cancer for 18 months. An English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, arranger, painter and actor, Bowie was a figure in popular music for over four decades, and was known as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s.
He had a connection to New Canaan once in his career, when he mentioned architect Philip Johnson, a town resident famous for his Glass House, in one of his songs.
On the 1995 album Outside, the song is called Thru These Architect’s Eyes, with lyrics as follows…
Making a goal, life’s a goal, life’s a goal, and life’s a
Making a goal, life’s a goal, life’s a goal, and life’s a
Making a goal, life’s a goal, life’s a goal, and life’s a
And stomping along on this big Philip Johnson
Is delay just wasting my time
Looking across at Richard Rogers
Scheming dreams to blow both their minds
It’s difficult you see
To give up baby
To leave the job when you
You know the money’s from day to day
All the majesty of a city landscape
All the soaring days of our lives
All the concrete dreams in my minds eye
All the joy I see through these architects eyes
Making a goal, life’s a goal, life’s a goal, and life’s a
Cold winter bleeds on the girders of babel
This stone boy watching the crawling land
Rings of flesh and the towers of iron
The steaming caves and the rocks and the sand
Stomping along on this big Philip Johnson
Is delay just wasting my time
It’s difficult you see
To give up baby
These summer scum holes
This god damned starving life
All the majesty of a city landscape
All the soaring days of our lives
All the concrete dreams in my minds eye
All the joy I see through these architects eyes
Making a goal, life’s a goal, life’s a goal, and life’s a
It’s difficult you see
It’s difficult you see
All the majesty of a city landscape
All the soaring days in our lives
All the concrete dreams in my minds eye
All the joy I see thru these architects eyes
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