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The Laughing Gnome
David Bowie
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This is my favourite David Bowie song partly because it tells a good story. He clearly wrote great songs but some of the lyrics can be a bit 'word-salad-y'

I also like the Laughing Gnome because it mentions my college :)

There's this too, from Wikipedia

In 1990, Bowie announced that the set list for his "greatest hits" Sound+Vision Tour would be decided by telephone voting, and NME made a concerted effort to rig the voting so Bowie would have to perform "The Laughing Gnome" (with the slogan "Just Say Gnome"). The voting system was scrapped.[4][9] Bowie later joked to NME's rival Melody Maker that he had been considering performing it in a new 'Velvet Underground-influenced' arrangement. He also considered performing it on his 2003 tour.


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