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| Robyn Hitchcock – The Man Who Invented Himself Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Another possibility is: Bob Dylan. In a tweet RH referred to Dylan as the man who invented himself, which makes sense in terms of Dylan's self-dramatization, nicely portrayed in the film "I'm Not There."
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| David Bowie – Cygnet Committee Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Exactly. One of the things that is often overlooked about Bowie is that his antipathy towards the hippies and the Left more generally was quite consistent through 1970-1977. It's not just personal, it's political: the lyrics of 'Cygnet Committee' explicitly align the hippie movement with totalitarianism, and totalitarianism is a recurring preoccupation, most notably on 'Diamond Dogs.' There is even a kind of playing with right wing ideas on 'Station to Station' and 'Heroes,' (with its title cut's polemic against the Berlin Wall) and the interest in Nietzsche, sometimes thought of as a right wing figure, is a constant throughout his career. In 1978-80 there seems to be a shift, and 'Lodger' and 'Scary Monsters' seem to be a swing to the Left, and after that he never quite goes to where this song goes again. Whether this is fair to the hippie movement or not is another question, but at the very least there is an issue with internal conformism that was discernible from the beginning, which would later get referred to as 'political correctness.' Bowie was always deeply suspicious of people who wanted to save the world, thinking that more likely than not, the individual would need to be saved from *them*. |
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