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Brew York and Beyond
Well, in the history of this newsletter, I’ve never skipped a week, even in my busiest week. But sometimes, as a writer with a day job (yes, believe it or not, I do have one beyond just traveling to drink beer and occasionally write about it), you have to declare newsletter bankruptcy and take a week off, even when your newsletter is nearly half-written. There was a lot of stress and restlessness in my life last week, and I needed a mental health break. I urge you all to take the time you need to yourself when you can, too. But my apologies for leaving you with some extra room in your inbox last week.
Jet lag definitely took its toll on me, as I’ve been playing catch up on sleep since I landed back in the states from Australia and New Zealand ten days ago, and the recovery last week seemed like it got progressively harder as the week went on. It didn’t help that I missed my connection on trip home due to mechanical issues with the plane, and ended up with a second layover in Detroit as a result. It also didn’t help that a trip to the other side of the world was swiftly followed six days later by a friend’s bachelor party in Philadelphia. Heck, it took almost a week before my body had recovered enough for me to justify having a beer at my local brewery
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Teenage Wildlife: inside the song about Bowie's midlife crisis
Around , London clubs began having “Bowie nights”, where DJs played Bowie records and clubgoers came dressed as an edition of him. For some, it was the pupal stage before they became punks. Others kept at it. By , the big Bowie night was at Billy’s in Soho, where Rusty Egan was the DJ and Steve Strange worked the door. By the turn of the 80s, the scene had shifted to the Blitz club in Covent Garden, where Bowie nights became competitive pose-offs. Doing a variation on Bowie was work. In summer , Jon Savage saw a group whose lead singer, “banging around in a Lurex mini-dress, was drawing entirely from a vocabulary invented by Bowie. And people stood and took it.” Egan and Strange formed Visage, later described by Simon Reynolds as “a confederacy of punk failures looking for a second shot at stardom” (so, very Bowie).
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Bowie recognised his heirs, visiting the Blitz (he was sneaked in and ensconced in an upper room, like slumming royalty) and using Strange and other Blitz kids as mourners in his video for Ashes to Ashes. Each party had few illusions about the other. Strange regarded Bow
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