"Years ago, Mark Saunders — a record producer and a close friend of my family — shared with my dad an unreleased audio clip of David Bowie doing impersonations in the studio during a 1985 session for the Absolute Beginners soundtrack. I remembered the recording again after Bowie’s passing, and my father, a lifelong Bowie fan (he even named our dog “Bowie,” may she rest in peace), recovered it from an old iPod. It is as amazing as I remember. Bowie goes through a handful of sung impressions, including, but not limited to, Bruce Springsteen, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Lou Reed and Anthony Newley, who was such a big influence on the iconic singer that the impersonation almost sounds like Bowie mimicking himself"