The Next Day Turns 10
“Here I am/ Not quite dying.” So sang David Bowie on “The Next Day,” the opener and title track for an album nobody thought would exist. The song was actually inspired by medieval history, and it set up a collection of music that some critics characterized as more consistently bleak than any other Bowie album — all death and violence and tyranny and apocalypse. But this is David Bowie we’re talking […]
