Life on Mars!

Eine sehr liebe Freundin aus HH war in London und hat sich die David Bowie Ausstellung im Victoria & Albert Museum angesehen. Dann war sie so lieb, und hat so viel Schönes über diese Ausstellung berichtet und mir noch dazu den Ausstellungskatalog nach Deutschland gebracht und per Post zugeschickt.

An dieser Stelle nochmals ganz herzlichen Dank, Uncle Neil!

Ja, und dann war's um mich geschehen. Den Mann gefragt, ob er zu seinem Geburtstag nach London möchte, Flug und Hotel gebucht und fix noch eben Mitglied im V & A geworden (alle Online-Termine sind ausgebucht). Mitte Juli geht's los.

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A lovely friend from HH was in London and visited the David Bowie exhibition in the Victoria & Albert Museum. She was then so nice and wrote such a fantastic report about the exhibition, brought an exhibition catalogue back to Germany and sent it to me.

So many thanks to you, Uncle Neil!

Well, and that was it. I asked my man whether he wanted to go to London for his birthday, booked the flights and the hotel and quickly bought a membership for the V & A (all online tickes are sold out). We will go mid of July.

It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
But her mummy is yelling "No"
And her daddy has told her to go

But her friend is nowhere to be seen
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen

But the 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

Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show

Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show

Is there life on Mars?

It's on Amerika's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
'Cause Lennon's on sale again

See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibeza to the norfolk broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns

But the film is a saddening bore
'Cause I wrote it ten times or more
It's about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on

Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show

Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show

Is there life on Mars?


(Ich war 13, als dieser Song rauskam. / I was 13 when this song was released.)