Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, May 26, 1972 PaeTw H MCIGNDIL riaMa 6,17 OPEN MEMORIAL DAY MON., MAY 29 BOWLING FOOSBALL BILLIARDS PING PONG Michigan Union FREE AM & FM STEREO installation included FREE WITH PURCHASE OF ANY '72 TOYOTA FREE TOYOTA of Ann Arbor 907 N. Main 663-8567 OPEN MON. AND THURS. TILL 9 P.M. Bowie: Everything's Hunky Dory By MIKE HARPER David Bo'wie's newest, Hunky Dory (RCA, lsp-4623) is sim- ply stunning. Period. Musical- ly and indeed lyrically, this is the finest solo album released within the last year; a fulfill- ing collection of fantasy, deep introspection and gil o r i o u s beauty. Bowie, English and quite rightly so, has been around as a soloist since 1968, when he and another unknown, Cat Stevens, were picked to launch the then-new Deram record label - Stevens won though. One poor Deram album and two fair Mercury, abums later, Ba- wie appears to be at home and, thank God for it; performing in Correction In an ad for Blue Sky. Pottery in Thursday's Daily, we mistakenly printed their address as 7280 Platt, 1 mile South of Michigan Avenue in Ypsilanti. Platt Road is NOT in Ypsilanti. grand style. Except for a rather maniacal eight line poem, each recorded track on this album shows much thought and work. Rock-and- roll lives through the style of "Changes"; a song about grow- ing up from both sides of the fence-"Look out you Rock 'n Rollers/ Pretty soon you're gonna get a little older/ Time may change me/ But I can't trace time." "Changes" is mus- ically superb, ending with a brief but nice sax run by Bowie. "Oh! You Pretty Things" is an- other "growing" song, built on a firm foundation of tight music and seemingly intense lyrics (yet it is presented in a happy fashion). "Kooks" is, in six words, a jolly good time for all. Written for his- son Zowie, this self - indulging song makes light of growing up (again!), as it warns the child, "Don't pick fights with the bullies or the cads/ 'Cause I'm not much cop at punching / Other people's Dads." The refrain, "Will you stay in our Lovers' Story/ If you do you won't be sorry/ 'Cause we believe in you," adds to the feeling of contentment that comes with listening to the song. The only non-Bowie compo- sition, Biff Rose's "Fill Your Heart," is a difficult song to master but Bowie does a fine job on it. Vocally, Bowie's ver- sion is delightfully tongue in cheek; with a simple but nice musical background. "Queen Bitch" is good fun, sung in a voice much like Lou Reed's. Nonsensical lyrics in "She's so swishy in her satin and tat/ In her frock and bipperty-bopper- ty hat" add to a driving musi- cal theme. Two songs pay "homage" to the superstars, Dylan and Andy Warhol. "Andy Warhol" (or- iginally "Andy Monument") is a strange look at an even stranger man - "Like to take a cement fix/ Be a standing cine- ma/ Dress my friends up just for show/See them as they real- ly are." The tale of the soup can kid is strengthened by Mi- chael Ronson's crisp acoustic guitar in all its splendor. Fol- lowing it is "Song for Bob Dy- lan," a well-sung and perform- ed tribute to the former Mr. Zimmerman; encompassing at- titudes of a deified poet - "You gave your heart to every bedsit room/ At least a picture on my wall/ Sat behind a mil- lion pair of eyes/ And told them how they saw." The music is su- perb, built on Ronson's electric and acoustic guitars and Rick Wakeman's fine piano work. "The Bewlay Brothers" is, what appears to be, a "confes- sion-piece" relating the story of Bowie and a friend on a jour- ney through strained obscurity. Lyrics are masked, and thus troublesome - "The Bewlay Brothers/ In the Blessed and Cold/ In the Crutch-hungry Dark/ Was where we flayed our Mark/ Oh, We were gone/ Kings of Obilivion/ We were so Turned On/ In the Mind-Warp Pavilion." It's a difficult but worthwhile song to listen to- take the time. "Life on Mars?," a song "in- spired by Frankie (Sinatra)," sees life through a continually- marvelous yet painful system of fantasy and film--But the 603 east liberty S10th SMASH WEEK! MI H ~nTheatre, Phone* 66S-6290 NOW TH E ALL-TIME RECORD- SMASHING MOIE~ HIT \ \ EVERYWHERE! "'THE GODFATHER' IS A MOVIE THAT SEEMS TO HAVE EVERYTHING! WARMTH, VIOLENCE, NOSTALGIA; THE CHARISMA OF MARLON BRAN- Shows at 1-4:30-8 p.m. DO IN ONE OF HIS FINEST PERFORM- $1.50 UNTIL 4:30 ANCES, AND THE DYNAMIC SWEEP $2.50 AFTER 4:30 OF AN ITALIAN-AMERICAN 'GONE $2.50 All Day SUNDAY WITH THE WIND'!" -Time Magaz ne UAC & SCHOOL OF MUSIC PRESENT AN OUTDOOR CONCERT The University Summer Symphony Mozart: Overture to Abduction from Seraglio Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 Conducted by GROVER WILKINS III WED., MAY 31 7:30 P.M. Dental School Courtyard Admission Complimentary film is a saddening bore/ For she's lived it ten times or more/ She could spit in the eyes of fools/ As they ask her to focus on .. ." The song continues with sad imagery of fighting sailors ("Oh man! Look at those cave- men go"), a lawman "beating up the wrong guy (Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know)," Mickey Mouse ("grown up a cow"), fame - struck workers and mice; building to a des- perate climax, "Is there life on Mars?" as Bowie holds the final word till his last breath. This well-arranged piece cries out in defiant crescendos, sounding the words into a requiem; featuring the death-shadowings of Ron- son's tragic guitar. Finally, is the most intro- spective song of the album, "Quicksand"; the total por- trait of the artist. A study in consciousness as a disease, the song completes Bowie's cycle of moods and his increasing un- certainty in his work. "I'm clos- er to the Golden Dawn/ Im- mersed in Crowley's uniform/ Of imagery" shows the artist in his full glory. He decays; sink- ing into a sea of insecurity- "I'm frightened by the total goal/ I'm drawing to the ragged hole/ And I ain't goth the pow- er anymore/ No I ain't goth the power anymore" --a "mere" man. Sheer emotionalism as he coitinues as he sees himself as "destiny," yet he is "drawn be- tween the light and dark"; fac- ing strong indecision. In a final state of awareness, the artist joins in, "I'm not a prophet or a stone age man! Just a mor- tal with potential of a super- man/ I'm living on/ I'm teth- ered to the logic of Homo Sa- pien/ Can't take my eyes from the great salvation/ Of bullshit faith." In final confession - "I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought! And I ain't got the power anymore"; the artist is lost. This album is a classic; a finely painted masterpiece from' a true artist. Put this album on the old turntable, and you'll never want to take it off-ex- cept to change sides every once in a while. A sheer joy. Coming soon: Bowie's fifth, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars! The Michigan Daily, edited and man- aged by students at the University of Michigan. News phone: 764-0562. 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