Bowie Style

Garland for the rock generation”. The song was
made popular by Garland in the 1939 evergreen,
The Wizard Of Oz (below).
‘Look Back In Anger’
This John Osborne play, a key Angry Young Man
text, was filmed by Tony Richardson in 1959 and
popularised the idea of the solitary male raging
against his sorry lot.
Lodger
Roman Polanski’s 1976 movie, The Tenant, was a
morbid study in paranoia and insanity, and a likely,
though rarely acknowledged, source for the
Lodgeralbum title.
‘Dead Man Walking’
Sean Penn directed and co-starred with Susan
Sarandon in this Oscar-winning true story from the
mid-Nineties.
‘Seven Years In Tibet’
Heinrich Harrer’s account of an ex-Nazi on the run
from the Allies, who journeys to the mountains of
Tibet where he befriends the Dalai Lama, provided
an ideal launching-pad for a Bowie song.