I loved the looks, the songs, and the sounds, but I think above all I loved the poetry… Here’s my top 30 lyrics…

1 “Golden Years”

Last night they loved you opening doors and pulling some strings, Angel

2 “Under Pressure”

Keep coming up with love, but it’s so slashed and torn

3 “Life On Mars?”

It’s a godawful small affair, to the girl with the mousey hair

4 “Man Who Sold the World”

Who knows, not me, I never lost control, you’re face, to face, with the man who sold the world

5 “Ashes To Ashes”

My mother said, to get things done, you better not mess with Major Tom

6 “Lady Stardust”

I smiled sadly for a love I could not obey, Lady Stardust sang his songs of darkness and dismay

7 “After All”

Please treat them gently they don’t like to fall

8 “Drive In Saturday”

Pour me out another phone

9 “Starman”

There’s a star man waiting in the sky he’d like to come and meet us but he thinks he’d blow our minds

10 “Boys Keep Swinging”

They’ll never clone ya, you’re always first on the line, when you’re a boy

11 “Rebel Rebel”

Hot tramp I love you so

12 “Always Crashing In The Same Car”

Must have been touching close to 94

13 “Diamond Dogs”

Just another future song for lonely little kids

14 “We Are The Dead”

Like a portrait in flesh that trails on a leash

15 “Lady Grinning Soul”

She’ll come, she’ll go, she’ll lay belief on you

16 “Jean Genie”

Keeps all your dead hair for making up underwear

17 “TVC15”

Transmission, Transition

18 “Fashion”

beep beep

19 “Scary Monsters”

She began to wail jealousies scream, waiting at the light, know what I mean

20 “Beauty and The Beast”

Someone fetch a priest

21 “Heroes”

I, I wish I could swim like dolphins, like dolphins can swim

22 “Sound And Vision”

Blue, blue, electric blue that’s the color of my room where I will live

23 “Five Years”

News guy wept and told us, Earth was really dying

24 “All The Young Dudes”

Television man is crazy, says we’re all delinquent wrecks. Oh, man, I need TV when I got T. Rex

25 “Time”

Time, he flexes like a whore, falls wanking to the floor

26 “Rock and Roll Suicide”

The water wall is calling, it lingers, and you forget

27 “The Laughing Gnome”

Now they’re staying up the chimney, and we’re living in caviar and honey – hooray! – and they’re making me lots of money writing comedy prose for radio shows

28 “Andy Warhol”

Andy Warhol looks a scream, hang him on my wall

29 “Prettiest Star”

All because of what you are, the prettiest star

30 “Fame”

Fame, puts you there where things are hollow