David Bowie and the Mercedes
01/13/2016
David Bowie, who died last weekend, was certainly not a big car fan. But he did at least drive a classic Mercedes from time to time. And he is said to have had a strange accident with it when he rammed into the car of an alleged dealer in a drug delirium because he had the feeling that the dealer had ripped him off. And finally, Bowie is said to have returned to the hotel garage in the Mercedes and spun around like crazy ....
But this is not the reason why Bowie will be remembered by many car fans for a long time to come. No, it's his music. And we already heard it in the car in the seventies and eighties, from two squawking loudspeakers: "Ground Control to Major Tom".
His music would have fitted perfectly in a Lotus Esprit, preferably in an Essex Turbo, because you could operate the radio from the roof console like a spaceship: "... commencing contdown, engines on ...".
Bowie's sound might have been even better in a Maserati Boomerang, but who has ever had the opportunity to listen to music in a Maserati Boomerang ...
At any rate, I was sitting in a Datsun 160B back then and the car radio tape came from a company called Tacaro, the self-recorded cassettes were from TDK or Maxell. Today's generations are just as unfamiliar with these names as they are with the musician David Bowie and his diverse legacy ....
We are all old-timers ...
