Feel a bit roughed up Feel a bit frightened Nearly pin it down some time #davidbowie #bowie

Red sail action Wake up in the wrong town Boy, I really get around #davidbowie #bowie

His burning eye will see me through One of these days, one of these days Gotta get a word through One of these days #davidbowie #bowie

Struggle with a child whose screaming dreaming Drowned by the props all steely sunshine Sick of you, sick of me #DavidBowie #Bowie

The vacuum created By the arrival of freedom And the possibilities It seems to offer #davidbowie #bowie

While we sleep they go to work We're legally crippled It's the death of love #davidbowie #bowie

On this day, 50 years ago, David Bowie released his Hunky Dory album in 1971

Up the hill backwards It'll be alright #davidbowie #bowie

Oh, hear this Robert Zimmerman I wrote a song for you About a strange young man called Dylan With a voice like sand and glue #davidbowie #bowie

And so the story goes they wore the clothes They said the things to make it seem improbable #davidbowie #bowie

And the world was asleep to our latent fuss Sighing, the swirl through the streets Like the crust of the sun The Bewlay Brothers #davidbowie #bowie

I was Stone and he was Wax So he could scream and still relax, unbelievable, And we frightened the small children away #DavidBowie #Bowie

And our talk was old and dust would flow Thru our veins and Lo! it was midnight Back o' the kitchen door #DavidBowie #Bowie

Now my Brother lays upon the Rocks He could be dead He could be not He could be You He's Chameleon, Comedian, Corinthian and Caricature #DavidBowie #Bowie

Come out of the garden, baby You'll catch your death in the fog Young girl, they call them the Diamond Dogs #DavidBowie #Bowie

On this day, 48 years ago, RCA held a press lunch with David Bowie as guest of honour at Rules, London's oldest restaurant on Maiden Lane. He was presented with an outstanding musical achievements award from RCA for having 6 albums in the UK charts for 19 weeks during 1973

African nightmare one-time Mormon More men fall in Hullabaloo men I slide to the nearest bar Undermine chairman I went too far #DavidBowie #Bowie

I'll make you a deal Like any other candidate We'll pretend we're walking home 'Cause your future's at stake #DavidBowie #Bowie

But the key to the city Is in the sun that pins the branches to the sky #DavidBowie #Bowie

Me I'm fresh on your pages Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud #DavidBowie #Bowie