{"id":31669,"date":"2025-06-11T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/david-bowie-23-years-ago-pagan-back-to-the-roots\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T05:20:00","slug":"david-bowie-23-years-ago-pagan-back-to-the-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/david-bowie-23-years-ago-pagan-back-to-the-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"DAVID BOWIE 23 years ago: Pagan back to the roots?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/11-06-DavidBowie_Heathen-550x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/11-06-DavidBowie_Heathen-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/11-06-DavidBowie_Heathen-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/11-06-DavidBowie_Heathen-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/11-06-DavidBowie_Heathen-636x636.jpg 636w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/11-06-DavidBowie_Heathen.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>David Bowie<\/strong> released \u201cHeathen\u201d on June 11, 2002. His 23rd album made it into the top 10 of the charts in more than 15 countries. Musically, \u201cHeathen\u201d is characterized by an art-rock and art-pop sound reminiscent of Bowie&#8217;s works from the seventies. The spiritual lyrics reflect his accumulated feelings of horror, thoughts about getting older and the hope for a better future for his then newborn daughter.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listen to the album here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/intl-de\/album\/34Uxe13FFYnUa5rvPYuYFK?si=nvmVEKF3Q-qsHicf4grL4g\" title=\"Spotify Embed: Heathen\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/34Uxe13FFYnUa5rvPYuYFK?si=nvmVEKF3Q-qsHicf4grL4g&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Bowie released \u201cHeathen\u201d on June 11, 2002. His 23rd album made it into the top 10 of the charts in more than 15 countries. Musically, \u201cHeathen\u201d is characterized by an art-rock and art-pop sound reminiscent of Bowie&#8217;s works from the seventies. The spiritual lyrics reflect his accumulated feelings of horror, thoughts about getting older [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1177],"tags":[1276,6549,5373,3739],"class_list":["post-31669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-complete","tag-david-bowie-en","tag-heathen-en","tag-history-facts-en-2","tag-nostalgia"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DAVID BOWIE 23 years ago: Pagan back to the roots? - Orkus1.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"David Bowie released \u201cHeathen\u201d on June 11, 2002. 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