12 Jan 2016: it's... David Bowie remembered

[dischead]

1/12/16 - Tuesday!  It's a David Bowie Memorial

1. Absolute Beginners
    (TV:  VH1 Storytellers:  David Bowie:  "Oh the things i could tell you -- oh, you don't know the half of it!")
2. Life On Mars (live)
    (David Bowie relates how he met Marc Bolan)
3. Rebel Rebel
    (David Bowie tells stories about his early career)
4. Can't Help Thinking About Me
5. Hang Onto Yourself (live)
6. Ziggy Stardust
    (David Bowie talks of Iggy at a punk club in Berlin)
7. China Girl (live)
8. Five Years (live)
    (David Bowie explains that 1975 and 1976 were dark years for him)
9. Word on a Wing
10.Starman

Nos. 4, 7, 8,  and 9 appear to be bust-outs; nos. 2 and 5 are first appearances for the live versions.

[urth]

There's not much in his 70s output that's not worth checking into. I'd start with Hunky Dory and just go forward from there. 

which is what I'm doing. HD is on now. Rick Wakeman!

Wakeman did a lot of session work, it would seem, around London in the 70s -- he was on Madman Across the Water, Electric Warrior, a Cat Stevens album or two, and lots of others. Not to mention Yes and the Strawbs, of whom he was a member.