It's interesting that after that forced attempt to
Philly-ize himself into some sort of "
plastic soul" man (circa
Young Americans -- and all he got was that lousy t-shirt and
Carlos Alomar),
Bowie probably had his
funkiest moments to date with "Sound and Vision", and other parts of the original Side One of
Low. All he had to do was go to
Berlin with
Eno,
Iggy, and Tony Visconti instead of his suitcase-full-of-
coke, and enlist Mary "
Those Were the Days" Hopkin (Mrs. Visconti) to handle the "doo-doo-doo..."
Berlin: The Epicenter of Da Fonk. For a few days, anyway. Bonus points for learning lyric brevity.