Painfully self-absorbed David Bowiecommencement address (Berklee School of Music):
I adored Coltrane, Harry Parch, Eric Dolphy, Velvet Underground, John Cage, Sonny Stitt. Unfortunately, I also loved Anthony Newley, Florence Foster Jenkins, Johnnie Ray, Julie London, the legendary Stardust Cowboy, Edith Piaf and Shirley Bassey.
Florence Foster Jenkins?!? One of my heroes:
After a taxicab crash in 1943 she found she could sing "a higher F than ever before." Instead of a lawsuit against the taxicab company, she sent the driver a box of expensive cigars.
Elsewhere: anothercommencement address that also namedrops FFJ! (Hampshire College)
Painfully self-absorbed David Bowie commencement address (Berklee School of Music):
