{"id":30,"date":"2016-01-14T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethanlewis.org\/icarus\/2016\/01\/14\/my-back-pages-a-look-at-guitar-player-magazine-back-issues-2-r-i-p-david-bowie\/"},"modified":"2019-04-01T14:47:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T18:47:08","slug":"my-back-pages-a-look-at-guitar-player-magazine-back-issues-2-r-i-p-david-bowie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ethanlewis.org\/icarus\/2016\/01\/14\/my-back-pages-a-look-at-guitar-player-magazine-back-issues-2-r-i-p-david-bowie\/","title":{"rendered":"My Back Pages: A Look at Guitar Player Magazine Back Issues #2–R.I.P. David Bowie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>Rock legend David Bowie died this week<\/a>\u00a0only a few days after his 69th birthday, following a lengthy\u00a0battle with liver cancer<\/a>. Bowie was a relentless trailblazer in areas of music, performance<\/a>, technology<\/a>, and sexuality<\/a> and was a significant pop cultural force on both sides of the Atlantic for decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I can’t say that I loved (or even appreciated) all of Bowie’s music–in fact, it would take a person with very wide tastes indeed to say that. But I’ve been aware of Bowie my whole life, and definitely appreciated him in several guises. As a little kid I used to treasure an LP (on thick green vinyl!) of the Philadelphia Orchestra with Bowie narrating “Peter and the Wolf” on side A and “A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra” on side B which to this day I credit with my ability to recognize the sound of different instruments.<\/span><\/div>\n
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