I’ve listened to David Bowie’s music almost all my life. I’m a fan. So, my celebration of his life was to listen to a typical selection of his songs last night. I gave a blow-by-blow account on my Facebook page. I reproduce the posts here.

Brian Silk My Bowie fest starts with Blue Jean, because even his overtly commercial stuff in the 1980s was amongst the best pop music around.

William Shealy, Jonathan Hussey and Paul N Stillman like this.

 Brian Silk Next is Five Years, the opening track from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars. I used to perform this song, back in the day.

 Brian Silk I’ve had to listen to the next track on the album, as Soul Love is a track that just bursts out of the speakers.

 Brian Silk Soul Love made me think of Up The Hill Backwards, from Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps). This is such a musically-clever track!

 Brian Silk Ashes to Ashes, on that same album … obviously. A candidate for Bowie’s most geniusful track, this song goes through so many key changes, seemingly effortlessly, and Bowie somehow gets us back to the key he started in. Awesome.

 Brian Silk Something from Hunky Dory and I was torn between Life on Mars?, but somehow Changes seems more fitting today. ‘Time may change me, but I can’t trace time.’

 Brian Silk Oh! You Pretty Things follows, for some of Bowie’s androgynous lyrics that put him at the forefront of challenging gender and sexuality norms.

 Sharon ‘Silky’ Silk Oh you pretty things! A to the mazing

 Brian Silk Big change of tack, as I revisit Sound and Vision, from Low. Such a long intro, but David Bowie more than gets away with it..

 Sharon ‘Silky’ Silk Love this homage ××

 Sharon ‘Silky’ Silk Fashion × sorry a bit mainstream but a track I loved ×

 Brian Silk Fashion’s great, and I may come to it, but I’m in Bowie’s Berlin period, so it has to be Heroes.

 Sharon ‘Silky’ Silk Put on your red shoes!

 Brian Silk Heroes: “We can be heroes, just for one day.” An anthem for each and every person to win – you can and will have your day, no matter who you are.

 Brian Silk I got close with Modern Love, from Let’s Dance, Sharon. More of that cleverer-than-most polished pop from Bowie.

 Brian Silk I’ll listen to a couple of mins of Let’s Dance… Ooh, that is actually really good. Music and lyrics that stick.

 Sharon ‘Silky’ Silk Hunky dory is my earliest album!

 Brian Silk Mine too

 Brian Silk This is only a short listening session, so a quick pop back in time to John, I’m Only Dancing (Again), from Young Americans.

 Brian Silk Bed time beckons, so I’ll conclude with the opening track of the same name as his final album, Blackstar. I did listen to a few tracks of Bowie’s brand new album, on Friday, not knowing it’s significance of course. It’s hard to listen to these lyrics.

 Sharon ‘Silky’ Silk Lazareth , poignant x love it already x

 Brian Silk Lazarus, then, as I clean my teeth and go find teddy … or womble. Only joking – I won’t bother cleaning my teeth.