musical madness 3

This time, "All The Madmen", a song written by David Bowie in 1970 for the album The Man Who Sold the World, released later that year in the U.S. and in April 1971 in the UK. One of a number of tracks on the album dealing with insanity, it has been described as depicting "a world so bereft of reason that the last sane men are the ones in the asylums". Bowie has said that the song was written for and about his half brother, Terry, who was diagnosed as having schizophrenia and who was an inmate of Cane Hill mental institution (pictured on the original U.S. cover of The Man Who Sold the World) until his suicide in 1985.


All The Madmen