With this album, Bowie has genialisiert his former style. Only at first hearing perhaps "slightly" sounding, the music far from easy listening and whose irrelevance is removed. Music, arrangements and lyrics (not simply "texts") are combined in a one-off for Bowie genius. This is drawn from a torn character, demonic and cryptically he dresses in a sweet chocolate that leaves a gloomy idea on the auditory nerve. Some pieces are melancholy ballads of the former junkies and drug Soaked awareness of the songs light up more or less openly through the pores of our hero. Bowie celebrates a bizarre heroin Revue, (un) suitable for twilight Parisian transvestite shows. Just superficially entertaining everyone's favorite Bowie songs come therefore, show the same false smile for an audience, which watched him everyday suspicious. This tragedy is shown on the album partly pompous (Oh! You Pretty Things), avant-garde (Andy Warhol) or open (The Bewley Brothers). Simultaneously it also makes from the intensity of the music. Behind the glittering curtain true life is hidden. Brilliantly staged!
