I hate to say it but I have varied tastes in music (*yawn* people always say that), but most of the time I'll be listening to jazz and classical at home. My favourite performer is David Bowie, primarily for his lyrics but also for his unique ability to laugh at his own preposterousness - a skill which seems to have passed by that most talentless of gay icons - Madonna.
In the car I'll always be listening to Bowie - especially illegally recorded live concerts which I've been able to acquire overseas.
Bowie has gone though good times and bad. He rose to the peak of his career in 1983 with the launch of the album "Let's Dance" which coincided with the phenomenal worldwide "Serious Moonlight" tour. His career took an immense dive during the mid to latter eighties particularly with the dud "Tin Machine" endeavours and "Glass Spider" tour of 1987.
He has since regained some popularity amongst a new younger audience in the 1990's with the release of "Outside" and "Earthling" albums, however has never been able to attract the critical acclaim he achieved in the 1970's where his progressive work with collaborator Brian Eno (Low, Heroes, Lodger) is acknowledged as the precursor for what would become the "sound of the eighties."
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