Dey Street Books

Like so many vital figures in British pop history, from Pete Townshend to Paul Weller, Bowie came from a blurry region of British society that encompasses the educated working class, the socially precarious petite bourgeoisie and what could be called the uncomfortably-off middle class, i.e. professional or office workers whose income didn’t quite match their aspirations.

That’s one of the things David Bowie came to show us—we go to music to hear ourselves change.

We’ve lived for just these twenty years, do we have to die for the fifty more?”—felt totally different