Indeed, the saxophone is faintly reminiscent of Bowie's "Sons of the Silent Age".
Author Nicholas Pegg speculated that the line "platforms, blank looks, no books" alluded to the Nazi regime.
silent film | Bronze Age | Iron Age | Age of Enlightenment | Charles Scribner's Sons | New Age | Viking Age | The Age | Queens of the Stone Age | Stone Age | Silent Night | Steinway & Sons | My Three Sons | John Wiley & Sons | Ice Age | Golden Age | Sons of Anarchy | William the Silent | Silent Witness | Sons of the American Revolution | Mumford & Sons | Islamic Golden Age | Sons of the Pioneers | Sons and Daughters | Silent Night, Deadly Night | Jazz Age | Gilded Age | First Age | Dutch Golden Age | Sons and Daughters (Australian TV series) |