There was a fairly immediate, unanimous verdict that everything about David Bowie‘s abrupt return to music at the start of last year with ‘The Next Day‘ was pretty much untouchable. Short shrift given to anyone who thought otherwise.
But Andrew Loog Oldham, the manager who shaped The Rolling Stones into the creative force now so fondly remembered, has broken ranks to give a far more withering verdict on Bowie’s comeback.
Speaking to the Sabotage Times, Oldham has labelled his new material as ‘the worst of Scott Walker‘, and also reserved some scorn for Aldi’s current festive poster-boy Jools Holland. “I just heard the new Bowie single; he seems to be cloning the worst of Scott Walker,” Oldham said. “As I’ve said old people make old music.”
“I was watching that great music show hosted by that awful Jools Holland,” he continued. “They really should inject his hands with cocaine so that he cannot play piano any more. I’ve watched him walk all over Bill Medley, Amy Winehouse, Paul Weller. I’m sure he went to the Russ Conway piano school.”