A decidedly odd place to attend a concert, a mall in downtown Manhattan was the location for a three day David Bowie Berlin Trilogy free event and it was surprisingly really good. A nice crowd gathered for night one to hear Bowie’s Lodger album and the band did the music justice. I had forgotten how good the Lodger album was for me. Lodger was the follow up to the Heroes collection however,  as I recall, it did not break out nearly as big. The Lodger album’s biggest “hit” had the catchy “I am the DJ, I am what I play” and the album was adventurous but it did not reach the mass appeal Bowie would later enjoy with the wildly popular “Let’s Dance” phenomenon. The performance at the mall was a curiously interesting first evening of the Bowie/Eno Berlin collaborations in reverse order of their release. It is highly unlikely that I shall ever see the Lodger album played live again which made it an even more fascinating exercise to take in and enjoy.

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Rock on!

GQ