Thursday music corner: To commemorate what would've been David Bowie's 77th birthday this coming Monday, here's one of my favourite of his album tracks, from my favourite of his many albums. Eight Line Poem features Bowie on piano and Mick Ronson on guitar, and appears as the third track on side A of Hunky Dory, Bowie's fourth studio album.
In his 2000 book The Complete David Bowie, Bowie scholar Nicholas Pegg describes Eight Line Poem as 'an impressionistic snapshot of a city room, in which a cat has just knocked over a spinning mobile while a cactus sits enigmatically in the window. Swamped by the big production numbers around it, Eight Line Poem is quiet, mysterious and strangely magnificent; Bowie's future friend William Burroughs considered the lyric reminiscent of The Waste Land.'
David Bowie - Eight Line Poem (1971)
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