You won’t buy it either

Contrary to what the ad says, I suspect most people have in fact long forgotten Mr Bowie’s second single of 1970, which Mercury Records apparently politely but firmly insisted he record (or re-record, the original version having appeared on his album) after “The Prettiest Star” tanked and sold only about 800 copies. I don’t know who the hell at Mercury thought this song—even if rocked up a bit with newly added Mick Ronson—would work as a single at all, let alone do better than “Prettiest Star”, but they were shortly proved catastrophically wrong as it did as little business as that song did (indeed, Bowie wouldn’t have a proper hit until “Starman” two years later).