I read some note today that put a huge smile on my face.
Enrique Bunbury, the Spanish musician I adore to pieces, stated on his website that the music album that has influenced his own musical aspirations the most, thus basically has changed his life, was "Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars" by David Bowie. In other words: One hero of mine loves another hero of mine. How awesome is this?!?!
Here is the source (Spanish):
http://www.enriquebunbury.com/noticia.aspx?i=1641 I know for a fact that there is at least one more person here on my f-list who has also very fond memories of "Starman". Am I right or am I right, dearest NJM? *wink wink*
While we're at it, these are the two genuises:
Bowie's newer rendition of his old "Starman".
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... and the original '72 version:
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And El Maestro Enrique Bunbury with his videoclip for "El solitario", quite dark I would say:
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