David Bowie wrote this song in homage to New Jersey's own "Uncle" Floyd Vivino, a vaudeville-styled comedian and pianist who for 20+ years hosted The Uncle Floyd Show, a kiddie-styled variety hour airing on local access cable in the New York tri-state area (and continues to perform live today). The show started in the 1970s as an actual kiddie show, but it turned out that most of the adult-slanted jokes were going right over the heads of the kids populating the in-studio "peanut gallery

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