Pretentious as ever, David Bowie says that the US tour he makes next summer will be the last time that he performs his old material on stage, and he wants to make sure that he doesn’t highlight Space Oddity if all the fans really want to hear is The Laughing Gnome: to that end, he has set up a toll-free 800 number so that fans can phone in with the five tracks they most want him to do – and suddenly there is a run on autodialliers and voice response systems from enterprising fans wanting to ensure the mailbox is full of only their favourites.
