I was the

I would be king

And you, you will be queen

For nothing will drive them away.

Hello, and welcome to a special Tuesday edition of the Great Albums podcast.

I am Brian, and I will be taking this one solo today.

Normally, we save things like this for our proper episodes,

but due to the passing of David Bowie early yesterday morning, we felt it would be appropriate

to interject. I'm going to try to keep it mostly personal, kind of sharing my own experiences

with David Bowie, my own exposure and things like

that growing up, and just my perception of what I feel he kind of meant to people. My first exposure

to David Bowie, funny enough, was through a Schwep's soda commercial, and they played the song Space Oddity as this

really big bottle of raspberry ginger ale got set to take off and you know the commercial was kind of neat

it was kind of like pop artie and stuff but the the song is what intrigued me the most and when I

heard the song on the radio,

I remember driving somewhere with my dad,

I asked him what it was, and he told me, you know,

it was space oddity,

and I thought, you know,

what a weird, neat title for a song,

and that was the first time Bowie really came on my radar.

And we didn't really have any in the house no CDs

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