HAD IT IN MY EAR BEFORE

(6-15-12)  MIXIN' THE COLORS..IGGY claimed that when he wrote the lyrics to the title track of LUST FOR LIFE he had never heard of the bio-pic of the same name about VINCENT VAN GOGH, which makes those lines about "the ear" quite a coincidence ( Bowie MUST have known!).    Perhaps IGGY has seen it since..the IG's own self-portraits suggest the bright colored palette Van Vogh favored after he went to Paris in 1886 and was exposed to the work of the Impressionists..although IGGY's quick, thick, visible brush strokes recall the early work of Neo-Impressionist Paul Signac..
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