# David Bowie vs. Roxy Music

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 15, 2010, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-vs-roxy-music/546846 "2010-07-15T23:10:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-vs-roxy-music/546846/21 "2010-07-17T19:59:48Z")

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This syncs with an epiphany I had while watching the drug-fueled glamness of this viddy right here.

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LPmMveU0dmc/hqdefault.jpg "In Every Dream Home a Heartache") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPmMveU0dmc)

But any Roxy Music vid from the Old Grey Whistle Test or TOTP will do.

Ferry is doing the Thin White Duke before Bowie ever got there. Bowie owes a debt to Ferry, not the other way round. What say you Dopers?

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**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-vs-roxy-music/546846/22 "2010-07-17T20:18:17Z")

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> [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](#):
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> Ferry is doing the Thin White Duke before Bowie ever got there. Bowie owes a debt to Ferry, not the other way round. What say you Dopers?

I say that sounds very smooth, polished, and… I don’t know, British. Bowie brought [the funk and the noise](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEWgIzm7F2U&feature=related). But he was an open admirer of Brian Ferry, so I doubt he’d object to the comparison.

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**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-vs-roxy-music/546846/23 "2010-07-17T20:36:03Z")

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Realizing that some might not get past the noise in the first clip, here’s another number from the Station to Station to era. Bowie funks up [the Dinah Shore show](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXZKsKD1UsY) in ways Ferry never could. Dig that crazy footwork.

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**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-vs-roxy-music/546846/24 "2010-07-17T22:15:38Z")

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It’s too bad Roxy Music only put out two albums, or else they’d be better contenders.

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**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-vs-roxy-music/546846/25 "2010-07-17T23:02:46Z")

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Not even _Country Life_ counts?

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**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-vs-roxy-music/546846/26 "2010-07-17T23:19:55Z")

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Can’t go wrong with two 3/4 naked women. Haven’t heard the whole album but like what I have heard. _Avalon_ is still supremely overrated.

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