Absolute Beginners featured music.
`` Absolute Beginners '' is a song written and recorded by David Bowie . It was the theme song to the 1986 film of the same name ( itself an adaptation of the book Absolute Beginners ) . Absolute Beginners (film) . Although the film was not a success , Bowie 's theme song was very popular in the UK and reached number two in the charts . A rock musical is a musical theatre work with rock music .