The alien among us: searching for the meaning of David Bowie A tribute to the man who reinvented pop culture and changed Britain, by John Gray, Olivia Laing, Philip Hoare, Kate Mosse, Paul Du Noyer, Kate Mossman, John Burnside, Will Self and Yo Zushi. First published in a special issue of the New Statesman on 15 January, 2016, marking the death of David Bowie (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016). Philip Hoare: Lighting up a blacked-out Britain In the hot summer of 1976, in white school shirt, black evening waistcoat and trousers, my hair slicked back and sprayed gold, I took the train to London where Kraftwerk’s crackling nuclear “Radioactivity” and the surreal brutality of Luis Buñuel’s
And so this is Christmas. And what have we done?
I reflect on those two simple lines every December.
It was 40 years ago this month that the world lost John Lennon.
To mark the anniversary, a slew of new Lennon books were released this year.
Lennon died in 1980, before I was born. People under 50 probably don’t remember him alive, though we all know his music and his legend.
On this weekend before Christmas (or xmas) I want to focus on Lennon.
Because this was a year we needed him specifically the word he tried to spread.
The word was Peace.
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