'Good Ol' Jane' was intended to sound like “an early, lost Bowie song" Johnny Flynn has released the first track from forthcoming David Bowie biopic Stardust, in which the singer and actor plays the chameleonic legend on the 1971 tour of America where the seeds of Ziggy Stardust were first sown.
The glam acoustic track, ‘Good Ol’ Jane’, was written by Flynn to emulate Bowie’s love of The Velvet Underground and was intended to sound like “an early, lost [Bowie] song that people haven’t heard”. “This was the first time I was writing a song as the character,” Flynn told NME, “You can hear BBC sessions from this period and live radio sessions and you can tell what an influence early Velvet Underground records were, he was often trying to copy
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