Aug 2, 2021
Bowie explained on the VH1 Storytellers series that he penned "Word On a Wing" as a prayer to see him through the period when a debilitating coke addiction had him flirting with fascism and black magic. He recalled: "I think it was so steeped in awfulness that recall is nigh on impossible, certainly painful, and I was concerned with questions like: 'Do the dead interest themselves in the affairs of the living?' 'Can I change the channel on my TV without using the clicker?' Unwittingly, this next song was therefore our signal of distress; I'm sure that it was a call for help."
