Mike Vernon

摘要

It may not have been the dumbest thing he ever did, but it was certainly up there. David Bowie announced that the set-list for every performance of his 1990 Sound+Vision world tour would be partially decided by the most popular songs from his back catalogue, as voted for by his fans. However, poor David was left in something of a pickle when voting in the UK demanded that he perform a song from 1967, way back before he was Ziggy Stardust, before he was The Thin White Duke, before, quite frankly, he was really any good at all. That song, ladies and gentlemen, was 'The Laughing Gnome', an embarrassingly awful novelty disc that comprised Dave meeting up with, yup, a gnome, the two conversing together, the gnome in a sped-up Chipmunks-esque fashion.