A dramatisation of Haydn Middleton’s The Ballad of Syd & Morgan is on BBC Sounds
DAVID BOWIE CERTAINLY KNEWhow to spring a surprise. In 2013, ten years into a recording silence many feared might be terminal, he caught us all on the hop with The Next Day, his hugely-acclaimed penultimate album. Scroll back another 30 years, and his Let’s Dance collection turned the former nabob of glam rock into an unlikely icon of post-disco, scoring him his career bestseller.
And ten years before that — five decades ago this month, on 3 July 1973 — he staggered just about everyone, including two of his bandmates, by telling an audience at Hammersmith Odeon it was witnessing “the last show … we’ll ever do”.
It’s no surprise, however, that since Bowie’s death…
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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2023