By the close of business, by which I mean teatime, the podcast had been listened to fifteen times, which is respectable enough for my first time, and will no doubt climb as my publicity strengthens. I'm not spending money on advertising if I can help it, although I have quite an elaborate postal campaign coming up. I figured that it is quite easy to ignore an email, as we get several hundred emails a day and we can be fatigued by that. By my logic, receiving something through the post that isn't a bill is something of a novelty these days, and so will grab the recipient's attention. Worth a try.
My next move is to latch on to as many forums as possible, and Facebook fan groups, that sort of thing. I've already started writing the next instalment, which will start with the release of Aladdin Sane and go as far as The 1980 Floor Show, which will be a good place to end it and make episode eighth in the series cover Pin Ups.
I have been re-reading To Major Tom: The Bowie Letters by Dave Thompson to get an idea of timescale. The book, (which I recommend to any Bowie fan, and would love to do the audio book for), is a collection of fictional letters to David Bowie from a boy at boarding school, who continues to write to his hero right through his life. The boy also reports on what else is happening in the music world at the time, and as the book was written in 2002 I can only assume that this line, although written for a naive schoolboy, was put in as a reference to the future that we the reader already occupies:
"Gary Glitter's turned into a total wimp and if he really wants us to 'remember him this way', he'd better hope we all have short memories".
Indeed.
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