David Bowie and me had a strange affair. Not physically.... of course. I much prefered Bolan, but my eldest brother had bought me Hunky Dory for my birthday (maybe 14th in 1977) and I loved it but didn't go beyond it. My brother passed away in 1980. Never been ill in his life, goes to bed one night a month after his 21st birthday and has a brain hemorrhage. Three days later he's on a life support machine and after his kidneys and eyes are donated, it was switched off........... The weird thing is, my brother influenced me greatly musically, I said this in the 1979 year, I listened to what he was playing though the bedroom wall. Bowie / Bolan / Slade / early punk. But then he got into Springsteen / Hall & Oats / Tom Petty / Nils Lofgren. No idea how or where he was even hearing this stuff. But a few months after he died, I heard a song on the radio. Must have been Radio 1 as there was no other station around. But this song came on and immediately I liked it. Never heard it before. But I said to myself "This sounds like Bruce Springsteen". I swear to you all reading this I had never heard a Springsteen song before. And the song finished and the DJ said "that was Bruce Springsteen and his new single 'Hungry heart'" To this day I can't explain that..... but it happened 100%. A turning point in my life in so many ways..... My brother had the NME delivered every Thursday when he was alive, I'd scan it but without any conviction. My parents continued to have it delivered after he had died because to cancel it, was like cancelling their son..... I now picked it up and read it religiously from front page to back page.......
