"Be My Wife"

"Be My Wife" was a song written by David Bowie in 1977. It was the penultimate track on side one of Low, the first half of Bowie's double album Low/Profile. Its subject was Marlene Dietrich, who Iris Wildthyme had brought to work with Bowie on album's second half as a backing singer. She had a sigificant effect on Bowie during the studio sessions, and he used the song as both a proposition and a heartfelt recognition of unrequited love, a theme mirrored on Profile's "Oh, Marlene". "Be My Wife" ran for 2 minutes and 58 seconds, and was preceded by "Always Crashing in the Same Car" and followed by "A New Career in a New Town". (PROSE: Low/Profile ^[+]Loading...["Low/Profile (short story)"])