Future Legend
Posted by Moonage | Filed under Interpretations
For those of you familiar with Future Legend from Diamond Dogs, you’ll find this interesting. It’s an interpretation of the origins of the lyrics:
I was looking through Strange Fascination by Fathead Buckley and found some interesting things out about Future Legend. Bowie based the characters of Hunger City on a story by Lord Shaftesbury, who was a building inspector in London. In his inspection, Lord Shaftesbury found hundreds of “urchins” living on top of the buildings in the slums. This is also coupled with homage to William S. Burroughs, who influenced Bowie with his use of “cut-ups” and fascination with mixing science fiction with “low-life culture.” By vividly portraying Hunger City as a dystopic city populated with “de-humanized humanity” with “as series of impressionistic snapshots,” Bowie also paid homage to Burroughs with his style of writing in Future Legend. Interesting, no?
–Andrea
For those of you not familiar with Future Legend, it’s a Bowie MUST HAVE!
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