“Little Wonder” by David Bowie

"Little Wonder" was the second single from Earthling, David Bowie's 21st album, out on 27 January 1997 with three remixes in tow. He and Reeves Gabrels wrote it among the first songs for the record, with Mark Plati sharing the composing credit, and Bowie called the lyric a ridiculous stream-of-consciousness exercise: a line for each of Snow White's seven dwarves, plus some brand-new dwarves once he ran out.

It was planned as a nine-minute jungle epic before being cut to six for the album, and biographer Chris O'Leary hears arena rock welded to electronica, with percussion and power chords borrowed from the Prodigy's "Firestarter". The single reached 14 in the UK and topped the Western chart in Japan, and Floria Sigismondi's video shows Bowie at three different ages.

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