This is David Bowie’s fault for calling the salting the minds upcoming song off his upcoming salting the mines Greatest Hits album “Sue” ripe for Tony Visconti to be misquoted. Last year (last year? call it 20,000 albums ago) Bowie produced the Visconti produced dead in the water The Next Day. TND wasn’t a bad album by any means and ten years ago it might have gone gold, but it wasn’t Let’s Dance and in this day and age, albums lack cachet. Even david Bowie albums lack cachet.
With no concerts, let alone tour, to push the product, it of course died on the vine. So any way CNN interviewed producer Tony Visconti who gave up with this thrilling piece of information: “There’s gonna be another album, definitely… soon.”
Or, rather, he didn’t, what Visconti said according to his tweet is: “CNN, I didn’t say new Bowie album ‘soon’. I quoted THE MAN who said ‘More Music Soon’ on Bowienet. That music is Sue.” Ergo, the new song we already know about. I am guessing Bowie is so rich he is happy not hitting the road and as Tony noted, he didn’t lift a finger to promote The Next Day.
At the turn of the century Bowie was playing live all the time and I saw him a great deal and like the Ramones in the 1980s you thought it would never end, there would always be another concert, but it ended and you just wish you went to more. Now, the promise of Bowie ever getting on stage again seems fraught with peril. If he didn’t support the last chapter of the Berlin song cycle, what would get him on the stage again?
Meanwhile, thanks for nothing CNN.
