Loving The Alien

Tonight, 1984

While Bowie always preferred the version captured on his original demo, his passionately delivered (and possibly never more pertinent) Holy Land-based indictment of all forms of organised religion is one of very few highlights to be found on the moribund, time-marking and, depressingly, commercially titanic Tonight album. One of only two tracks (the other being Blue Jean) written solely by Bowie for the record, its brilliance lies in an astonishing vocal performance that shines in spite of a laboured, synth-heaped and polite production job so irretrievably 80s that it might as well be wearing Deely boppers. But that voice…