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Simon Critchley first experienced David Bowie in the early '70s, when the vocalist appeared on Britain's most-watched music show, Top of the Pops. His performance of "Starman" mesmerized Critchley: it was "so sexual, so knowing, so strange". Two days and nights later Critchley's mum bought a duplicate of the solo; she liked both the tune and the performer's shiny orange hair (she had previously been a hairdresser). The seed of your lifelong romance was thus planted in the mind of her child, aged 12. In this particular concise and interesting excursion through the melodies of 1 of the world's most significant pop actors, Critchley, whose writings on viewpoint have garnered common compliment, melds personal narratives of how Bowie lit up his flat life in southern England's suburbs with philosophical forays into the way concepts of authenticity and personality are turned inside out in Bowie's work. The result is almost as provocative and mind-expanding as the musician it portrays.
