Chords for David Bowie & Eno
Tempo:
90.375 bpm
Chords used:
G
C
A
Dm
Am
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[G#m] lie the secondary.
In America people can often withhold judgment on a band
until they've seen them lie to see if they can actually pull it off.
[C#] [G#m]
[B] [C#] I've [G#] always liked the obsolete.
[D]
Pop stars have entertained us royally with their moonlighting attempts at [A] acting,
but a widespread art school background does of [N] course mean that many are [A] restless
within the confines of the genre, making creative cross [G]-pollination inevitable,
[D] as when David Bowie launched a range of self-designed wallpaper for Laura Ashley.
[G] David Bowie, I would have said, was the person [A] who was most confused about what he wanted [D] to do.
He would have given up pop on many, [A] many occasions from his first incarnation as David Jones
and his first record when he became Iggy Stylist and beyond that.
I think [G] almost at any moment he would have given up one for the other.
He wasn't firmly committed to pop, he was committed to all the aspects,
to fashion, to art, to pop, [C] to mime, to theatrical conceptions,
which hadn't even been fully worked out in his mind.
But pop was the one outlet.
You could have all these ideas,
but in the end the only way you're going to get [B] financed and have your life go down a [Em] channel
which you could see where you [A] were going was [D] pop.
As long as [Bm] we're together
Because Bowie was so [C#m] successful as a musician, it will always slightly overshadow anything else he does,
but he doesn't care.
[G] He goes on and does it and takes it all the way [F#] through.
[G] I [D] absolutely love you.
Bowie is definitely one of the great [C] musical polymaths, or transcends music, [Dm] doesn't he?
[Am]
[C] [G] Brian Eno is [E] kind of the prototype of the [Dm] art school product
who isn't defined [Am] as any one thing.
He's just a sort of
He was the original [Dm] creator.
Oh, [A] cheeky, [Am] cheeky.
Oh, [C] naughty, sneaky.
[G]
[F] He's the [Dm] producer of U2 and Coldplay,
but at the same time, you know, he's exhibited sound collages
and, you know, participated in any number of artistic
any variety of artistic endeavours.
He seems to be fairly fearless when it comes to exploring a new domain,
and that's always the sign, I think, of a real musical maverick.
[Am]
[C] He comes out of this sort [G] of approach that developed in [Dm] the [A] 1960s
in particular art schools in Britain,
[C]
where you define yourself [G] first as an artist and you don't pick a particular field.
[Dm] You feel that you can excel [Am] in a number of fields.
It's not about [C] craft, it's about concepts.
It's not [G] about technique, it's about sort of an attitude, really, and a sensibility.
Brian Eno had his reports from Winchester School of Art in the 60s
[F] from the people who were teaching him,
and it was really interesting to read them because they were [G] all dismissing him
as a painter, [C] as a sculptor, because he had no technique, he couldn't do it.
[G#m] And somewhere around the edges you could tell they were talking about something,
but no-one yet knew what it was, and what it was, in a way,
that he was going to make a kind of sonic sculpture, [Am] if you like.
You know, [G#] he had things he wanted to express,
he had an understanding of art history,
but he wasn't doing it in a way that had any precedent,
so they couldn't understand, so they kind of dismissed him as any kind of artist,
not [G] understanding that any minute now he was about to create
exactly the kind of [C#] art that he would want to make
In America people can often withhold judgment on a band
until they've seen them lie to see if they can actually pull it off.
[C#] [G#m]
[B] [C#] I've [G#] always liked the obsolete.
[D]
Pop stars have entertained us royally with their moonlighting attempts at [A] acting,
but a widespread art school background does of [N] course mean that many are [A] restless
within the confines of the genre, making creative cross [G]-pollination inevitable,
[D] as when David Bowie launched a range of self-designed wallpaper for Laura Ashley.
[G] David Bowie, I would have said, was the person [A] who was most confused about what he wanted [D] to do.
He would have given up pop on many, [A] many occasions from his first incarnation as David Jones
and his first record when he became Iggy Stylist and beyond that.
I think [G] almost at any moment he would have given up one for the other.
He wasn't firmly committed to pop, he was committed to all the aspects,
to fashion, to art, to pop, [C] to mime, to theatrical conceptions,
which hadn't even been fully worked out in his mind.
But pop was the one outlet.
You could have all these ideas,
but in the end the only way you're going to get [B] financed and have your life go down a [Em] channel
which you could see where you [A] were going was [D] pop.
As long as [Bm] we're together
Because Bowie was so [C#m] successful as a musician, it will always slightly overshadow anything else he does,
but he doesn't care.
[G] He goes on and does it and takes it all the way [F#] through.
[G] I [D] absolutely love you.
Bowie is definitely one of the great [C] musical polymaths, or transcends music, [Dm] doesn't he?
[Am]
[C] [G] Brian Eno is [E] kind of the prototype of the [Dm] art school product
who isn't defined [Am] as any one thing.
He's just a sort of
He was the original [Dm] creator.
Oh, [A] cheeky, [Am] cheeky.
Oh, [C] naughty, sneaky.
[G]
[F] He's the [Dm] producer of U2 and Coldplay,
but at the same time, you know, he's exhibited sound collages
and, you know, participated in any number of artistic
any variety of artistic endeavours.
He seems to be fairly fearless when it comes to exploring a new domain,
and that's always the sign, I think, of a real musical maverick.
[Am]
[C] He comes out of this sort [G] of approach that developed in [Dm] the [A] 1960s
in particular art schools in Britain,
[C]
where you define yourself [G] first as an artist and you don't pick a particular field.
[Dm] You feel that you can excel [Am] in a number of fields.
It's not about [C] craft, it's about concepts.
It's not [G] about technique, it's about sort of an attitude, really, and a sensibility.
Brian Eno had his reports from Winchester School of Art in the 60s
[F] from the people who were teaching him,
and it was really interesting to read them because they were [G] all dismissing him
as a painter, [C] as a sculptor, because he had no technique, he couldn't do it.
[G#m] And somewhere around the edges you could tell they were talking about something,
but no-one yet knew what it was, and what it was, in a way,
that he was going to make a kind of sonic sculpture, [Am] if you like.
You know, [G#] he had things he wanted to express,
he had an understanding of art history,
but he wasn't doing it in a way that had any precedent,
so they couldn't understand, so they kind of dismissed him as any kind of artist,
not [G] understanding that any minute now he was about to create
exactly the kind of [C#] art that he would want to make
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[G#m] lie the secondary.
In America people can often withhold judgment on a band
until they've seen them lie to see if they can actually pull it off. _ _ _
_ _ [C#] _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] [C#] I've [G#] always liked the obsolete.
[D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Pop stars have entertained us royally with their moonlighting attempts at [A] acting,
but a widespread art school background does of [N] course mean that many are [A] restless
within the confines of the genre, making creative cross [G]-pollination inevitable,
[D] as when David Bowie launched a range of self-designed wallpaper for Laura _ Ashley.
[G] David Bowie, I would have said, was the person [A] who was most confused about what he wanted [D] to do.
He would have given up pop on many, [A] many occasions from his first incarnation as David Jones
and his first record when he became Iggy Stylist and beyond that.
I think [G] almost at any moment he would have given up one for the other.
He wasn't firmly committed to pop, he was committed to all the aspects,
to fashion, to art, to pop, [C] to mime, to theatrical conceptions,
which hadn't even been fully worked out in his mind.
But pop was the one outlet.
You could have all these ideas,
but in the end the only way you're going to get [B] financed and have your life go down a [Em] channel
which you could see where you [A] were going was [D] pop.
_ _ As long as [Bm] we're together_
Because Bowie was so [C#m] successful as a musician, it will always slightly overshadow anything else he does,
but he doesn't care.
[G] He goes on and does it and takes it all the way [F#] through. _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ I [D] absolutely love you.
Bowie is definitely one of the great [C] musical polymaths, or transcends music, [Dm] doesn't he?
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ Brian Eno is [E] kind of the prototype of the [Dm] art school product
who isn't defined [Am] as any one thing.
He's just a sort of_
He was the original [Dm] creator.
Oh, [A] cheeky, [Am] cheeky.
Oh, [C] naughty, sneaky.
_ _ [G] _ _ _
[F] He's the [Dm] producer of U2 and Coldplay,
but at the same time, you know, he's exhibited sound collages
and, you know, participated in any number of artistic_
any variety of artistic endeavours.
He seems to be fairly fearless when it comes to exploring a new domain,
and that's always the sign, I think, of a real musical maverick.
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ [C] He comes out of this sort [G] of approach that developed in _ [Dm] _ the [A] 1960s
in particular art schools in Britain,
[C]
where you define yourself [G] first as an artist and you don't pick a particular field.
[Dm] You feel that you can excel [Am] in a number of fields.
It's not about [C] craft, it's about concepts.
It's not [G] about technique, it's about sort of an attitude, really, and a sensibility.
Brian Eno had his reports from Winchester School of Art in the 60s
[F] from the people who were teaching him,
and it was really interesting to read them because they were [G] all dismissing him
as a painter, [C] as a sculptor, because he had no technique, he couldn't do it.
[G#m] And somewhere around the edges you could tell they were talking about something,
but no-one yet knew what it was, and what it was, in a way,
that he was going to make a kind of sonic sculpture, [Am] if you like.
You know, [G#] he had things he wanted to express,
he had an understanding of art history,
but he wasn't doing it in a way that had any precedent,
so they couldn't understand, so they kind of dismissed him as any kind of artist,
not [G] understanding that any minute now he was about to create
exactly the kind of [C#] art that he would want to make
In America people can often withhold judgment on a band
until they've seen them lie to see if they can actually pull it off. _ _ _
_ _ [C#] _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] [C#] I've [G#] always liked the obsolete.
[D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Pop stars have entertained us royally with their moonlighting attempts at [A] acting,
but a widespread art school background does of [N] course mean that many are [A] restless
within the confines of the genre, making creative cross [G]-pollination inevitable,
[D] as when David Bowie launched a range of self-designed wallpaper for Laura _ Ashley.
[G] David Bowie, I would have said, was the person [A] who was most confused about what he wanted [D] to do.
He would have given up pop on many, [A] many occasions from his first incarnation as David Jones
and his first record when he became Iggy Stylist and beyond that.
I think [G] almost at any moment he would have given up one for the other.
He wasn't firmly committed to pop, he was committed to all the aspects,
to fashion, to art, to pop, [C] to mime, to theatrical conceptions,
which hadn't even been fully worked out in his mind.
But pop was the one outlet.
You could have all these ideas,
but in the end the only way you're going to get [B] financed and have your life go down a [Em] channel
which you could see where you [A] were going was [D] pop.
_ _ As long as [Bm] we're together_
Because Bowie was so [C#m] successful as a musician, it will always slightly overshadow anything else he does,
but he doesn't care.
[G] He goes on and does it and takes it all the way [F#] through. _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ I [D] absolutely love you.
Bowie is definitely one of the great [C] musical polymaths, or transcends music, [Dm] doesn't he?
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ Brian Eno is [E] kind of the prototype of the [Dm] art school product
who isn't defined [Am] as any one thing.
He's just a sort of_
He was the original [Dm] creator.
Oh, [A] cheeky, [Am] cheeky.
Oh, [C] naughty, sneaky.
_ _ [G] _ _ _
[F] He's the [Dm] producer of U2 and Coldplay,
but at the same time, you know, he's exhibited sound collages
and, you know, participated in any number of artistic_
any variety of artistic endeavours.
He seems to be fairly fearless when it comes to exploring a new domain,
and that's always the sign, I think, of a real musical maverick.
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ [C] He comes out of this sort [G] of approach that developed in _ [Dm] _ the [A] 1960s
in particular art schools in Britain,
[C]
where you define yourself [G] first as an artist and you don't pick a particular field.
[Dm] You feel that you can excel [Am] in a number of fields.
It's not about [C] craft, it's about concepts.
It's not [G] about technique, it's about sort of an attitude, really, and a sensibility.
Brian Eno had his reports from Winchester School of Art in the 60s
[F] from the people who were teaching him,
and it was really interesting to read them because they were [G] all dismissing him
as a painter, [C] as a sculptor, because he had no technique, he couldn't do it.
[G#m] And somewhere around the edges you could tell they were talking about something,
but no-one yet knew what it was, and what it was, in a way,
that he was going to make a kind of sonic sculpture, [Am] if you like.
You know, [G#] he had things he wanted to express,
he had an understanding of art history,
but he wasn't doing it in a way that had any precedent,
so they couldn't understand, so they kind of dismissed him as any kind of artist,
not [G] understanding that any minute now he was about to create
exactly the kind of [C#] art that he would want to make