{"id":448,"date":"2009-11-18T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larelle.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/18\/heres-a-little-ditty"},"modified":"2009-11-18T21:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T21:02:00","slug":"heres-a-little-ditty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/?p=448","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s A Little Ditty&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    I woke up early (for me) this morning and so decided to listen to some music on my iPod. Sometimes when I&#8217;m in bed at night, trying to go off to sleep and find sleep elusive, I set myself tasks. A favourite one is to do an A-Z of David Bowie songs. I&#8217;ll think of a song title apt for the letter of the alphabet then play the track in my head. It eventually helps get me off to sleep. Better than counting sheep!<\/p>\n<p \/>So this morning when I got hold of my iPod I thought I&#8217;d actually listen to a Bowie A-Z.<\/p>\n<p \/>Here&#8217;s my list:<\/p>\n<p \/>A small Plot of Land &#8211; off the album &#8220;1. Outside&#8221; 1995<br \/>Blackout &#8211; off the album &#8220;Heroes&#8221; 1977<br \/>Cat People &#8211; off the album &#8220;Let&#8217;s Dance&#8221; 1983<br \/>Dead Man Walking &#8211; off the album &#8220;Earthling&#8221; 1997<br \/>Everyone Says &#8216;Hi&#8217; &#8211; off the album &#8220;Heathen&#8221; 2002<br \/>5.15 Angels Have Gone &#8211; off the album &#8220;Heathen&#8221; 2002<br \/>God Knows I&#8217;m Good &#8211; off the album &#8220;David Bowie: Man of Words, Man of Music&#8221; or &#8220;Space Oddity&#8221; 1969<br \/>Heathen (The Rays) &#8211; off the album &#8220;Heathen&#8221; 2002<br \/>I&#8217;m Deranged &#8211; off the album &#8220;1. Outside&#8221; 1995<br \/>Jean Genie &#8211; off the album &#8220;Aladdin Sane&#8221; 1973<br \/>Kingdom Come &#8211; off the album &#8220;Scary Monsters&#8230;and Super Creeps&#8221; 1980<br \/>Law (Earthlings on Fire) &#8211; off the album &#8220;Earthling&#8221; 1997<br \/>Miracle Goodnight &#8211; off the album &#8220;Black Tie White Noise&#8221; 1992<br \/>Neukoln &#8211; off the album &#8220;Heroes&#8221; 1977<br \/>Oh! You Pretty Things &#8211; off the album &#8220;Hunky Dory&#8221; 1971<br \/>Prettiest Star &#8211; off the album &#8220;Aladdin Sane&#8221; 1973<br \/>Queen Bitch &#8211; off the album &#8220;Hunky Dory&#8221; 1971<\/p>\n<p \/>(yet to play)<\/p>\n<p \/>Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll With Me &#8211; off the album &#8220;Diamond Dogs&#8221; 1974<br \/>Stay &#8211; off the album &#8220;Station to Station&#8221; 1976<br \/>Teenage Wildlife &#8211; off the album &#8220;Scary Monsters&#8230;and Super Creeps&#8221; 1980<br \/>Untitled No. 1 &#8211; off the album &#8220;Buddha in Suburbia&#8221; 1993<br \/>Voyeur of Utter Destruction (as beauty) &#8211; off the album &#8220;1. Outside&#8221; 1995<br \/>Wishful Beginnings &#8211; off the album &#8220;1. Outside&#8221; 1995<br \/>(nothing for X sadly)<br \/>Young Americans &#8211; off the album &#8220;Young Americans&#8221; 1975<br \/>Ziggy Stardust &#8211; off the album &#8220;The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars&#8221; 1972<\/p>\n<p \/>As you can see I got up to the letter &#8220;R&#8221;. I will finish listening to the rest tonight.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"posterous_download_image\" src=\"\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up early (for me) this morning and so decided to listen to some music on my iPod. Sometimes when I&#8217;m in bed at night, trying to go off to sleep and find sleep elusive, I set myself tasks. A favourite one is to do an A-Z of David Bowie songs. I&#8217;ll think of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/?p=448\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Here&#8217;s A Little Ditty&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,93,182,199,201,294],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-apple","tag-david-bowie","tag-lists","tag-mp3","tag-music","tag-songs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}