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Oh! Buddha!

Worked it out, yet?

The anagram?

The album slipped by, almost unnoticed. Some considered it to be the soundtrack to the TV play, but it wasn't.

Recorded at lightning speed, it kickstarted the best second half of a career ever. Of course, those born too late for Ziggy and whose first interaction with db is 'Serious Moonlight' or (even worse) the 'Glass Spider' will not agree at all. They will recoil in horror at the mention of Tin Machine or '1. Outside' while slavering all over the awful and tiresome 'Sound & Vision' Tour. Even Bowie disowns this commercially-successful but artistically-barren period (84-88).

One of his best recordings from this time is an interview he did where he discusses anthropology!

This is where Bowie's audience splinters into two: there is a constant tension hereafter between the pop (commercial) Bowie and the artistic avant-garde experimentalist.

It still lingers, with the box sets being welcomed with open arms by the 'money-no-object' illiterati.

Rougvie, who did an incredible amount of research to support the 'Sound & Vision' Ryko releases, concurs too.

This, then, is the precursor to the Second Golden Age of Dave, which continued more or less intact (with some minor indiscretions) right up to his rather sudden and shocking demise. 'The Buddha of Suburbia' provided Bowie with an unexpected opportunity to experiment with a multi-talented multi-instrumentalist and to reunite with some very important characters from the past.