Look Back in Anger (song)
"Look Back in Anger" is a song written by English artists David Bowie and Brian Eno for the album "Lodger" (1979). It concerns "a tatty 'Angel of Death'", and features a guitar solo by Carlos Alomar. RCA Records was unsure if America was ready for the sexual androgyny of "Boys Keep Swinging", the lead-off single from "Lodger" in most territories, and "Look Back in Anger" was issued instead. The B-side was another track from "Lodger" called "Repetition", a story of domestic violence. The single failed to chart. "Look Back in Anger" has a  mixed reputation among Bowie commentators. "NME" critics Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray described it as "probably the low point" of the album, while Nicholas Pegg considers it "one of "Lodger's" dramatic highlights" and Chris O'Leary has called it "one of Bowie's strongest songs of the late Seventies". Beyond the shared title, the song has nothing to do with the John Osborne play "Look Back in Anger". Bowie performed the song on his 1983 Serious Moonlight Tour (it is the opening number on the "Serious Moonlight" film) and reworked it in the mid-1990s as a heavy rock song  for the Outside and Earthling tours. Music video. David Mallet directed a music video for the song, featuring Bowie in an artist's studio. The scenario was based on the conclusion of Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray", as a self-portrait of the protagonist grows more handsome while he himself physically decays.