After Bowie left the earthly realm, Rolling Stone conducted an extensive interview with Jagger wherein he recounted his friendship with the starman. Again, he reiterated that he and Bowie had become estranged over the previous couple of decades but that he still cherished the memories he shared with Brixton’s favourite son. “We were very close in the ’80s in New York,” Jagger remembered. “We’d hang out a lot and go out to dance clubs. We were very influenced by the New York downtown scene back then.”
This intoxicating, dazzling environment is what influenced Jagger’s choice, and his favourite song of Bowie’s brings him back to those colourful, hedonistic days. The Stones frontman said: “That’s why ‘Let’s Dance’ is my favourite song of his — it reminds me of those times, and it has such a great groove.”
Jagger also discussed the true majesty of Bowie‘s artistry: “He had a chameleon-like ability to take on any genre, always with a unique take, musically and lyrically.” Ascribing Bowie the chameleonic title is the most fitting in the whole of the English vernacular, as no other adjective accounts for the measure of his artistry more.
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