BOWIE ~ I HAVE NOT BEEN TO OXFORD TOWN ~ LIVE 95

David Bowie Performing during the Outside Tour from Meadows Music Theatre, Hartford,Connecticut, USA 14th September 1995 Oxford Town Is From Davids Then Currant Album Outside As The Excellant Bowie Songs Website Pushing Ahead of the Dame States ( The fact that Bowie came up with the lyric (and top melody?) in a half-hour is witness to his creative strength at the time. Working at a steady pace since Buddha of Suburbia, gaining the confidence and insight to abandon most of one idea (the Leon suites) in favor of, at the relatively last minute, new, improvised material, it’s as if Bowie had physically willed himself back into an earlier state of creativity. It couldn’t, and it didn’t, last for long. But it produced “I Have Not Been to Oxford Town,” which is a marvel, the best song Bowie wrote in the Nineties. It began as “Trio,” a rhythm track that Brian Eno, Carlos Alomar and the drummer Joey Baron worked up at the Hit Factory on 17 January 1995, one of the las