| The Rolling Stones – Angie Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[bannelee:8121] @[songman3367:8122] What's your evidence that it's about Keith's romantic partner Anita? I don't mean that defiantly but just curious. Certainly when the song first came out a lot of us back then thought it was about Angie Bowie. Rumors abounded that Mick had bedded each of the Bowies. | |
| David Bowie – Watch That Man Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I have always wondered if the Lorraine at Shaky's party has any relationship to Lou Reed's "Wild Child" Lorraine, the woman Reed can't get over in that song. Bowie produced Reed and gave Lou's career a big boost. | |
| David Bowie – Watch That Man Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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A Benny Goodman fan painted holes in his hands is a clear heroin reference (Benny took heroin, holes in your hands from the needle). I think there is a lot of hallucinatory/psychedelic action here--a lemon in a bag plays the tiger rag, etc. Shaking with anxiety and not following the conversation also applies to hallucinogens at least as well as it does to cocaine. Cracking the mirrors, however, is a clear coke reference, as cocaine was snorted off of mirrors in the 70s. It is NOT a reference to crack, however; this is too early in history even for a vanguard person like Bowie to refer to crack. I don't think even freebase was yet available in 1973. Also, I don't see why Shaky is necessarily Bowie. He could literally be a party guest and not the host/producer/emcee. |
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| David Bowie – Watch That Man Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[Teakettle:8120] The bodies on the screen stopped bleeding--I think this is a Vietnam War reference. The war was still going on when this album was released, and Americans were exposed every night on the news to quite graphic and gory video of the war. So the party was so good, or the drugs so strong, or both, that the bodies on the (TV) screen stopped bleeding. | |
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