The Listening Log

17 January 2026

Tin Machine – Working Class Hero (1989)

David Bowie. Genius. Yes, we all know he’s a genius. Even those who don’t like him know he’s a genius. Yet, here I am listening to David Bowie in a band covering a John Lennon song.

I never knew this was a John Lennon song. Tin Machine is an improvement on the original. Don’t tell Yoko Ono I said that.

She doesn’t like that kind of thing.

George Harrison told me. In a dream. One night after I’d watched Cambridge United lose again.