This Is A Mad Planet," David Bowie

Questioning My Spiritual Life Has Always Been Germane To What I Was Writing. Always. It's Because I'm Not Quite An Atheist And It Worries Me. There's That Little Bit That Holds On: 'well, I'm Almost An Atheist. Give Me A Couple Of Months.'

David Bowie Emerged As A Rock Star In The Late '60s. And As Ken Tucker Wrote, "in The Face Of The Hippy Era's Sincerity, Intimacy And Generosity, Bowie Presented Irony, Distance And Self-absorption. His Song 'changes' Announced The Arrival Of A New Counterculture," Unquote.

Of Course, We Found Out Later Syd Barrett Had Mental Problems. But There Was Something So Otherworldly About Him. He Was Hovering, Like, Six Inches Above The Ground.

I'm Afraid Of Americans; I'm Afraid Of The World; I'm Afraid I Can't Help It.

I Didn't Say That Wearing A Glamorization Of The Rock Artist Was Any Truer From The Other Thing.