I was looking through Strange Fascination by Fathead Buckley and found some interesting things out about Future Legend. Bowie based the characters of Hunger City on a story by Lord Shaftesbury, who was a building inspector in London. In his inspection, Lord Shaftesbury found hundreds of "urchins" living on top of the buildings in the slums. This is also coupled with homage to William S. Burroughs, who influenced Bowie with his use of "cut-ups" and fascination with mixing science fiction with "low-life culture." By vividly portraying Hunger City as a dystopic city populated with "de-humanized humanity" with "as series of impressionistic snapshots," Bowie also paid homage to Burroughs with his style of writing in Future Legend. Interesting, no?
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-----Original Message-----Thanks for answering my question. I thought it was
From: BOWIE-BOWIE@yahoogroups.com [mailto:BOWIE-BOWIE@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Sheena
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 3:17 PM
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Subject: Re: [BOWIE-BOWIE] Future Legend
Bowie (a bit too specific to have been lifted) and I
agree that Diamond Dogs is one of his best-written
albums.
In Future Legend he does such a great job of setting
the mood for the story with his speaking complimenting
the written text.
Thanks,
--Sheena
--- A Mrogers <amrogers@...> wrote:
> Bowie wrote that. Diamond Dogs in its entirity was
> some of the best writing he ever did.
>
> -- Anthony
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> --- Sheena <lady_stardust96@...> wrote:
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> > Listening to "Diamond Dogs" today, I remembered
> how
> > much I absolutely love this intro.
> > Did Bowie write it himself? or is it lifted from
> > another work?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > --Sheena
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