Hello and welcome back to Luke's English podcast which is a podcast for

learners of English around the world.

You're now listening to part two of a special episode

about English musician David Bowie who died just a few days ago on the 10th of January 2016.

The aim of this episode is to talk about David Bowie's significance as an artist, to consider some of the themes of his work,

and to look at why so many people had such a strong emotional attachment to him and to his

music.

Hopefully after listening to this episode you'll be better able to have conversations

about David Bowie but also about art and culture in general. You can find almost everything that I'm saying

transcribed on the page for this episode at teacherluk.co.uk.uk.

UK. In part one I talked about Bowie's career up until about the year 1975. So let's

carry on in just a moment but before that I just want to say that since I've recorded this episode, I've realized that there are lots of other things that I didn't mention.

For example, I could have talked more about his first wife Angie and his second wife I man

They say that behind every great man there's a great woman if that's true then Bowie must have had two great women in his life. And probably quite a lot of

average ones as well I expect. But anyway, joking aside, I'm sure that they had big parts

to play in his life, and I hope they're all right after his death.

It's hard for us to lose an artist that we love, but I can't imagine what it's like for his close

family who must have cared about him in so many other ways.

Anyway, let's now get back into this episode and I'll carry on from where I stopped last time in the mid-70s. So here we go.

It's hard to explain everything that happened, I think, to David Bowie in the 1970s it was a

whirlwind it must have been a whirlwind of different things and incredible music

everything moved so fast for for him at that time and he was really ahead of everyone else in terms of fashion.

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