White Duke: The David Bowie Thread

[Phil Lawton]

Let's dance!

[mattadore]

Not one of Bowie's better songs. I like "Heroes" and "Suffragette City".

[mmmender]

didn't i read somewhere that bowie is pretty ashamed of that whole 80's thing he pulled?

[Phil Lawton]

didn't i read somewhere that bowie is pretty ashamed of that whole 80's thing he pulled?

From what I know of Mr Jones, he is alternately proud and ashamed of most parts of his career....just depends on who he's trying to pitch his latest incarnation to.

[mattadore]

Quite possible. I think "Let's Dance" is at least somewhat plausible as an album. He had Stevie Ray Vaughn on axe duties, and "China Girl" is a serviceable tune (thanks, Iggy Pop!). Mind you, I wasn't wild about Tin Machine either, or his recent Drum and Bass excursion (although "I'm Deranged" from the "Lost Highway" soundtrack is decent).

[mmmender]

http://www.greatmodernpictures.com/rock-bowiebellbottoms.jpg

[PhillipT]

Quite possible. I think "Let's Dance" is at least somewhat plausible as an album. He had Stevie Ray Vaughn on axe duties, and "China Girl" is a serviceable tune (thanks, Iggy Pop!).

Yeah, I think SVR and Niles Rodgers production had a lot to do with that album. I do enjoy it but "The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust" is such a better and more important album IMHO.

[mmmender]

http://www.greatmodernpictures.com/rock-bowiespaceoddcover.jpg

[Phil Lawton]

I have a real problem with Bowie.

I love lots of his stuff, but by God do his albums bore me. My favourite of his, though, comes from that pile of steaming manure "Outside" (Matt, it's the source album of "I'm Deranged"). "Strangers When We Meet" is just quintessentially him. Marvellous.

[zed]

..still love pin-ups, diamond dogs, hero's , scary monsters , and heathen...............

back then a touch of mascara was the thing fer a young dude................now, it's just the song that counts.
"ART DOES NOT APOLOGIZE!!!"
..............."impromptu"

Z. "i'm under japanese influance and my honor's at stake!"

[Baddy2shoos]

LABYRINTH RULES!!

[mattadore]

For me it's all about "Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars". IMHO, that album is flawless from start to finish... remember, that's just an opinion though, and a famous idiot once opined "Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one.".

[fredofla]

Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust were just fine.

the Berlin/Eno period offered the most in the way of artistic risktaking, growth and break-throughs.

Low is a masterpeice.

much to love about Station To Station.

but when Bowie moved the music away from Eno's influence, i lost most interest in the man creatively, except as a continuously fascinating celebrity personality (who certainly has aged well physically over the years......man, great genes!)

i stopped buying Bowie albums at the point of Scary Monsters.

thought that album was mostly abrasive and ugly.

it was around this time that i came to the realization that maybe Bowie never really did have all that great of a singing voice to begin with.

his last album had a brilliant lead track and then quickly descended unmercifully into the usual late-Bowie mediocrity.

and, yeah, the dude was (much like Elton John) all over the Manhattan gay club scene in the mid-Seventies (no matter what he's claiming these days.....)


FoLA

[mattadore]

Originally posted by FREDofLA
Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust were just fine.

the Berlin/Eno period offered the most in the way of artistic risktaking, growth and break-throughs.

A bit off-topic, but with my penchant for stating the obvious, I must reiterate that Eno is/was so influential in the role of producer/collaborator to so many artists, from U2 to Bowie to Talking Heads. "Remain In Light" is one such example, just an amazing fantastic LP. When he and Byrne kept carrying on and the rest of the Heads said, "Oi! Get a room already you two!", the end result was, "My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts", a truly prescient LP that paved the way for a lot of the music that was made in the 90's.

[fredofla]

Originally posted by mattadore


A bit off-topic, but with my penchant for stating the obvious, I must reiterate that Eno is/was so influential in the role of producer/collaborator to so many artists, from U2 to Bowie to Talking Heads. "Remain In Light" is one such example, just an amazing fantastic LP. When he and Byrne kept carrying on and the rest of the Heads said, "Oi! Get a room already you two!", the end result was, "My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts", a truly prescient LP that paved the way for a lot of the music that was made in the 90's.


i totally agree, yes!

Bush Of Ghosts remains more than ever a very important and influential peice of work.

visionary!

funny, too:

Eno is sometimes referred to as the Talking Head's very own Yoko Ono......since Byrne at that time seemed far more excited with Eno than his other bandmates.

it's no surprise that Talking Head split up not long after Eno entered the picture......but, then, i think Byrne had always wanted to be a solo entity; i wouldn't be so harsh on Eno.

let me also throw in here that if any pop star has a more innately unpleasant singing voice than David Bowie, it probably David Byrne.

Byrne was , however, a wickedly good song composer, but with a voice akin to nails on a blackboard.

also, quite interestingly, Eno also produced an album for the B-52s (Mesopotamia?) but with (imo) far less successful results.

[dprid]

Let's not forget David Bowie's crowning glory - The Laughing Gnome :D

On his last major tour they set up a telephone vote thingy to ask the fans which old songs they wanted him to do. They had to rig it because a campaign was started to get him to do Laughing Gnome and he bottled it :D

[Lucibelle]

Originally posted by mmmender
didn't i read somewhere that bowie is pretty ashamed of that whole 80's thing he pulled?
Aren't we all?? :D

[Lucibelle]

Since no one else has mentioned it I must. The Hunger!!! Makes MY tummy growl! ;)

[Brett]

Lets Dance is one of those ones that makes the technophiles foam at the mouth.
"Such pioneering production!"
Get a life, knob-twiddler.


I actually put Low as one of my 22 in Leesa's Top 20 must haves. It is highly acclaimed and affords me much credibility. Yet I must confess, I know it only because it was namechecked so often in association with Joy Division and Japan. At that age you tend not to give a shit who influenced your faves but as you grow up a little you find yourself compelled to appraise the ancestry. I personally found that I retained my favouritism for the 'my era' bands while cultivating a healthy liking and respect for those that influenced.
For example I LOVED Japan but came to learn how unoriginal they were at the time. Roxy-Bowie-Velvets. Imagine how I felt as a Jam fan the first time I heard Revolver!

Going off topic, but Bowie I remain sceptical over. I reckon he might have been something of an ideas thief.

[E-Lo]

Alas, no great artist exists in a vacuum, however there are some who come along who make their mark for decades and David Bowie is one of them.

I love Hunky Dory, Low . . . actually just about everything up to Scary Monsters. Even the megapop songs had a Bowie-sheen that's hard to beat.

Without Bowie, there would probably be no Peter Murphy, and that makes me wince since Bauhaus is part of my Top 5 pantheon (along with CT, Japan, Joy Division, etc.)

[Brett]

Originally posted by E-Lo
Alas, no great artist exists in a vacuum, however there are some who come along who make their mark for decades and David Bowie is one of them.

I love Hunky Dory, Low . . . actually just about everything up to Scary Monsters. Even the megapop songs had a Bowie-sheen that's hard to beat.

Without Bowie, there would probably be no Peter Murphy, and that makes me wince since Bauhaus is part of my Top 5 pantheon (along with CT, Japan, Joy Division, etc.)

I'll bet you LOVE The Bunnymen's 'The Cutter'?

[E-Lo]

Actually, was never a big Echo & The Bunnymen fan . . . did like some of the popstuff, e.g., The Killing Moon, but don't own any of their albums . . .

Now you've put me in a Bowie mood! Time to put on some "Breaking Glass" in time for the weekend! :)

[Brett]

'New career in a new town', for me. Followed by 'Sound and Vision.'

[Pale Clouded]

David B and Petter Murphy just butter my bread......





http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=David+Bowie/v=2/l=IVI/*-http://www.televisione.it/fnts/televisione/immagini/278x182/bowie.jpg

[Pale Clouded]

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=David+Bowie/v=2/l=IVI/*-http://www.riversidestudio.com/img00169.jpg

[Baddy2shoos]

great pics Mel

[Pale Clouded]

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=David+Bowie/v=2/l=IVI/*-http://www.buttonheads.com/images/fullsized/DavidBowie3.jpg

[Pale Clouded]

Originally posted by Baddy2shoes
great pics Mel

I didn't know you were a Bowie fan too my dear.........

For you then:

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=David+Bowie/v=2/l=IVI/*-http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/10.29.98/gifs/bowie-9843.jpg

[Phil Lawton]

Mel

Another Bowie fan here....but, if you want if you want to meet a Bowie FREAK...dig Ket out.

[Pale Clouded]

What do y'all think of his latest CD? I haven't gotten it yet?

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=David+Bowie/v=2/l=IVI/*-http://www.pays-de-bergerac.com/images/gabarits/partenaires/entreprises/forum-espace-culture/pochettes/david-bowie.gif

[Pale Clouded]

Originally posted by Phil Lawton
Mel

Another Bowie fan here....but, if you want if you want to meet a Bowie FREAK...dig Ket out.

Ah!

Did you get his latest CD?

[Baddy2shoos]

dig some labyrinth pics out :)

[Pale Clouded]

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=labyrinth+the+movie/v=2/l=IVI/*-http://www.speakeasy.org/~cruiser1/labyrnth/movie/activity.gif

[Phil Lawton]

Originally posted by Pale Clouded
Ah!

Did you get his latest CD?

Not yet, Mel, but "New Killer Star" from that album is the best thing he's done in ages.

[Pale Clouded]

Originally posted by Phil Lawton
Not yet, Mel, but "New Killer Star" from that album is the best thing he's done in ages.

Seriously? I'll have to check it out then.......although I do like some of the stuff that he has done over the past few years, I know not many may agree though.......

But hey it's David.......

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=labyrinth+the+movie/v=2/l=IVI/*-http://www.last-goodbye.net/lens/wallpapers/mov_labyrinth1s.jpg

[Baddy2shoos]

god he is so sexy in that film

[Pale Clouded]

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=labyrinth+/v=2/l=IVI/*-http://www.supermanfred.it/labyrinth.jpg

[Pale Clouded]

Originally posted by Baddy2shoes
god he is so sexy in that film

I couldn't agree more! ...sigh.......:D

[Pale Clouded]

OMG! Baddy look!


http://www.supermanfred.it/jarethinwindow.jpg

[Baddy2shoos]

:eek:

[dynamine]

i think David butters Peter's bread as well.

;)

[multymfoiled]

Originally posted by Pale Clouded
What do y'all think of his latest CD? I haven't gotten it yet?

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=David+Bowie/v=2/l=IVI/*-http://www.pays-de-bergerac.com/images/gabarits/partenaires/entreprises/forum-espace-culture/pochettes/david-bowie.gif

I like this album a great deal...Particularly the bonus disc with the new version of "rebel rebel".

[Ghosty]

Originally posted by Pale Clouded
http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=labyrinth+the+movie/v=2/l=IVI/*-http://www.last-goodbye.net/lens/wallpapers/mov_labyrinth1s.jpg
I like the girl better.

[Ketamine]

Did someone mention David Bowie and Pete Murphy???

(swoons)

[Ketamine]

http://www.dukerisst.com/Autografos%20Bands/Bauhaus-PeterMurphy3.jpg

[Ketamine]

http://www.sb-photographies.com/musique/groupes/b/bauhaus/peter.jpg

[Ketamine]

http://www.davidbowie.com/users/yakkobowie/ki.jpg

[Ketamine]

Small point Pale clouded....it's 'HEROES', with an 'e'....xxx

[dynamine]

http://www.bauhausmusik.com/tournotes/peter.jpg

[dynamine]

http://www.ndr2.de/events/images/bowie_tour_240.jpg

[E-Lo]

http://www.pslashg.org/~vool/pages/pictures/ziggy.gif

[E-Lo]

http://home.swipnet.se/~w-54404/images/electric.jpg

[E-Lo]

http://www.rockstore.net/Merchant/graphics/00000001/gpmd1.jpg

[dynamine]

http://www.ananova.com/images/web/61727.jpg

[Ketamine]

ooerr dynamine, that picture above is Gruesome!

[Ketamine]

http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/benjamin/594/bowie/diamonddog.jpg

[Pale Clouded]

Originally posted by Ketamine
Small point Pale clouded....it's 'HEROES', with an 'e'....xxx

Thank you, I'll fix it.....My spelling is terrible.........

[Pale Clouded]

Originally posted by dynamine
i think David butters Peter's bread as well.

;)

Whateva, Whateva.....Pete's married to a woman now so :tongue: ........

[Pale Clouded]

Oh crap DY, I gotta send ya something......I totally forgot....I need ta git my white ass on that......


TYM: So it comes with two discs? Cool! I think I'ma have to pick it up fo sho!

[Ketamine]

Does anyone know of any links to see the advert Dave does for mineral water or the Tommy Hilfiger ad with Iman? We don't get these in the UK and i can't seem to remember what the name of the water he advertises so i can't search..:confused:

[dynamine]

www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/um_797672.html?menu-
http://www.ananova.com/images/web/61725.jpg

is this what you speak of?....the French ad?

...hope this helps

-R

[Ketamine]

Cheers ma friend, that's the one. I've seen those stills before, i'm trying to find the whole advert that i can watch or download, any ideas?

[Ketamine]

http://www.davidbowietribute.com/britvideo.html

i DID find this though...it's quite spooky, it's lookie-likies doing live gig impressions, I have to admit, the guy doing Bowie is great, the short clip of him as Thin White Duke is quite amazin!

Tonight Matthew, i'm going to be.....

[Angel]

http://www.davidbowietribute.com/vid.html

This should have the whole add towards the end of the page.

[dynamine]

very cool

[keefy]

My favorite thing of Bowie's is "I'm Afraid Of Americans" because the video was filmed in my neighborhood on my street. I can't walk to that corner at the beginning of the video without seeing Bowie standing there. Of course everyone on the street knew about it and I was up at 6am on a Sunday peering out my window watching them film the video. So when I went to get coffee that morning (made a point to go buy it rather than to make it) I passed by and got filmed .... can't remember if I actually ended up in the video but it's weird to see my neighborhood on someone's television.

[Baba O'Reilly]

The Bowiemeister rocks.

[Phil Lawton]

Originally posted by keefy
My favorite thing of Bowie's is "I'm Afraid Of Americans" because the video was filmed in my neighborhood on my street. I can't walk to that corner at the beginning of the video without seeing Bowie standing there. Of course everyone on the street knew about it and I was up at 6am on a Sunday peering out my window watching them film the video. So when I went to get coffee that morning (made a point to go buy it rather than to make it) I passed by and got filmed .... can't remember if I actually ended up in the video but it's weird to see my neighborhood on someone's television.

Keefy

I have the DVD - what were you wearing/carrying? I'll have a look later and let you know.

[fornasetti]

I can't believe that no-one has mentioned Aladdin Sane. That's my favourite Bowie album.

[keefy]

Originally posted by Phil Lawton
Keefy

I have the DVD - what were you wearing/carrying? I'll have a look later and let you know.

[QUOTE]

Saw the video, borrowed the DVD. I pass by at the very beginning on a bicycle, just as the camera is zooming in on Bowie. It was shot later in the day from the morning when I thought I was filmed.

[mmmender]

http://content.rollingstone.com/content/331/Images/00344421.jpg

for those of you with access to north american television programs..........bowie will be appearing on the tonight show with jay leno on wednesday, april 21, 2004.

for more info visit nbc.com (http://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/index.shtml)

[mmmender]

DAVID BOWIE is urging bedroom DJs to bootleg his songs.

The star has given fans the right to use his songs in an Internet competition to create a bootlegged "mash-up" of two existing tracks.

The winning tune will be released on MP3 and its creator will win a car.

"I'm very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself," Bowie told The Times.

The contest requires entrants to splice any song from the singer's latest album, 'Reality', with any other Bowie song.

A number of entries will be broadcast via the Bowienet website, with listeners selecting finalists before Bowie chooses the winner.

[andylama]

Nifty!

Oh, GOD if I only had large chunks of free time in my life again, I'd be all over this. Alas. Whinewhinewhine.

[mmmender]

DAVID BOWIE's Sixties recordings for Decca are the basis for a new children's sing-along book, Musical Storyland, by illustrator JAMILLA NAJI

[Tinspur]

Whether you're a fan or merely a casual listener, you have to acknowledge Bowie's influence on modern rock. It was his wild live performances, complete with futuristic attire, that paved the way for Gary Numan and other acts of the late 70's. There are at least a few punk rock acts that have claimed him as a source of inspiration.....

As for me, I'm hot and cold, but notable tracks are Heroes and Blue Jean.

[petroldarling]

http://thesplendid.net/treefingers/pictures/bowie.gif

haha, i made that as a 'gift' for my bowie-obsessed best friend. i've even had dreams about catching him with a large net and delivering him to her. HAHAHA. yeah. it's obnoxious, that *points* we joke about his codpiece in the movie 'labyrinth' a lot, though she says it's all real. and i laugh. :P

[mmmender]

DAVID BOWIE was forced to cancel a German gig after being taken to hospital.

The star performed at the Hurricane Festival in the town Scheessel on Friday (June 25), but was later taken to hospital with a sharp pain in his shoulder, later revealed to be a trapped nerve.


The star was kept overnight for treatment, and missed appearing at the Southside Festival in Neuhausen ob Eck in southern Germany on Saturday (June 26).

Other concerts scheduled for Vienna (Jun e29) and Salzburg (June 30) have also been scrapped, reports the BBC.

Bowie , 57, had cut a concert in Prague short on Wednesday (June 23) because of the pain.

He took a 10-minute break during his set and returned to play two songs before apologising to fans and calling a halt to the concert.

[mmmender]

DAVID BOWIE is recovering from emergency heart surgery.

The legendary singer, who pulled out of all of his tour dates in July because of a pinched nerve in his shoulder, was then diagnosed with an acutely blocked artery which required emergency surgery.

A statement reads: “British pop legend David Bowie underwent heart surgery in Germany last month prompting him to cancel his European tour. Bowie sought medical treatment after performing at a festival in the north-western German town of Scheesel (June 25) reportedly for a pinched nerve in his shoulder. It was discovered that the 57-year old rocker had an acutely blocked artery requiring emergency surgery (the procedure is known as an angioplasty). “

Bowie left the clinic earlier this week. He is now with his family, and will start working again next month.

He said: "I'm so pissed off because the last 10 months of this tour have been so fucking fantastic. Can't wait to be fully recovered and get back to work again. I tell you what, though, I won't be writing a song about this one."

The singer was due to headline the T In The Park festival this weekend, and was also scheduled to play festivals in France, Belgium, Ireland, Spain and Switzerland.

[mmmender]

DAVID BOWIE has made his first public appearance since undertaking emergency heart surgery.

The legendary singer was recently diagnosed with an acutely blocked artery which required emergency surgery. He underwent heart surgery in Germany.

Pictures recently posted on the star’s official website show Bowie out for the first time since his hospitalisation.

The singer was snapped by photographers in New York’s Chinatown yesterday (July 27), chatting with fans and local police, and watching people play the game Mah Jong.

Bowie is expected to start working again next month.

He said: "I'm so pissed off because the last ten months of this tour have been so fucking fantastic. Can't wait to be fully recovered and get back to work again. I tell you what, though, I won't be writing a song about this one."

[mmmender]

i'm parting with my very rare bowie lobby card from his appearance on broadway in "the elephant man"

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=3851230320

http://www.cocteautwinsforums.com/images/ebay/Bowie.jpg

[mmmender]

from rollingstone.com........

For this interview I met David Bowie one afternoon in June 2003 at Looking Glass, the Manhattan studio where he was finishing his album, Reality. Bowie was fifty-six at the time, and he walked into the control room promptly at noon, looking fresh and completely composed, even though the weather was wiltingly hot. He plopped down his bag, and asked one of the studio workers to bring him a strong French roast coffee. Then he was ready to get to work.
Before Reality, Bowie had put out Heathen (2002), a record that reflected a spiritual crisis brought on by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Bowie, his wife, the model Iman, and their daughter, Alexandria, who was born in 2000, live less than a mile from Ground Zero. He spoke movingly about the impact of that day and its aftermath.

He seemed interested in conveying as genuine a sense of himself as he could. The everyman identity with which he'd grown so comfortable now seems all the more poignant after the heart attack that forced him to cancel months of touring in the summer of 2004. A significantly longer version of this conversation appears in a section of In Other Words called "Beyond Irony," which also features interviews with David Byrne, Iggy Pop and Bryan Ferry.

After all these years of unsettling absolutes, you're calling your new album Reality.

It is ironic. You haven't seen the artwork yet, but there's a fakeness to the cover that undermines that. It's the old chestnut: What is real and what isn't? It's actually about who's stolen this world.

Do you feel like your thinking about those questions has changed or deepened?

I honestly believe that my initial questions haven't changed at all. There are far fewer of them these days, but they're really important. Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: "Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months." [Laughs]

Describe the process of making this album.

Very simple. I'd just written some songs, and I amalgamated them with a couple of covers I'd wanted to do. I didn't approach this with any kind of through line involved. It wasn't a conceptualized piece at all.

Heathen was very different. It was written as a deeply questioning album. Of course, it had one foot astride that awful event in September. So that was quite a traumatic album to finish. This one hints at that, but it's not really trying to resolve any trauma. [September 11] did affect me and my family very much. We live down here.

Were you here on September 11?

My wife and child were. I was up in Woodstock making the album. It was just unbearable that day -- well, actually the next two or three days, coming back down and coming up against the cordon around that part of town. I had to get my wife to come to the barricades with a passport, so I could show the guy that I lived there. He said, "I'm sorry, I know who you are, but I have to see . . .," and all that. It was really weird. And that fine silt dust everywhere.

I never had seen New York so off its axis. What do you feel has been the aftermath?

I think there's a new awareness in New York about our isolationist stance in the rest of the world. There is a realization that even though this is one of the most important cities in the world, others are watching us. I don't think we ever felt that before. There's a slight unease. We really felt freewheeling and that "tomorrow belongs to us," anything can happen. Now, there's not quite that swaying surge of hopefulness.

I still love this town. I can't imagine living anywhere else. We've been here now, my wife and I, for ten years. I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

You always seemed rootless, a citizen of the world.

I kind of thought I was. But, frankly, that changed when I met Iman. We got nesting!

Can you describe how your life has changed in recent years?

What's my day like? Don't you dare say, "David, what makes you tick?" [Laughs] That's the one I'm not going for. Any interview -- not mine, but any one I'm reading -- I can't wait for that question to come. I love it. It's such a funny question: "But, Jack, what makes you tick?"

Well, one thing that's different is I don't have that sense of loneliness that I had before, which was very, very strong. It became a subtext for a lot of things I wrote.

What do you see yourself doing in the next few years?

My priority is that I've stabilized my life to an extent now over these past ten years. I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad! [Laughs]

That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God -- so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true . . . Hell, don't pose me that one.

From Anthony DeCurtis' collection of interviews, In Other Words.

[Phil Lawton]

Strange that he didn't make an appearance at Live 8.

[hiddendoor]

i'm parting with my very rare bowie lobby card from his appearance on broadway in "the elephant man"

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=3851230320

http://www.cocteautwinsforums.com/images/ebay/Bowie.jpg

I remember reading that several days before John Lennon was gunned down, Mark Chapman attended one of these shows. It's horrible to think that Bowie along with Lennon was a potential target for Chapman too.

[mmmender]

Bowie concert on TV today, details here:
http://www.vh1.com/artists/rock_on_tv/show_info.jhtml?type=tv&motvId=&days=&startdoc=44

[mmmender]

Bowie to make rare live appearance:
http://www.nme.com/news/david-bowie/24361

[mmmender]

Bowie in Spongebob cartoon:
http://www.nme.com/news/david-bowie/24679

[sglavas]

Low is a masterpeice.
It's my favorite Bowie album - well, part of it, to be exact.
This part:
7. A New Career in a New Town
8. Warszawa
9. Art Decade
10. Weeping Wall
11. Subterraneans (my favorite Bowie track)
12. Some Are
13. All Saints

[Simonp]

David Bowie is to release the bulk of his back catalogue in the first three months of next year.

Aladdin Sane, Hunky Dory, The Man Who Sold The World, Pinups, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and Space Oddity will be released on January 16 while Diamond Dogs, Heroes, Lodger, Low, Station to Station and Young Americans will follow on February 20.

Hitting the shops in March will be Let's Dance, Never Let Me Down, Scary Monsters, Tin Machine and Tonight.

[dprid]

Didn't realise they'd ever been unavailable. The Bowie section always seems to be fully stocked.

[100%Clown]

lol, there are only like a half dozen versions of each of those albums. Multiple re-issues, multiple-masterings, etc. Kind of difficult to miss them when they are so many options to choose from!

[Simonp]

Didn't realise they'd ever been unavailable. The Bowie section always seems to be fully stocked.

It probably means they've been re-mastered Dave with extra tracks that weren't good enough to feature first time round.

[aeonaside]

lol, there are only like a half dozen versions of each of those albums. Multiple re-issues, multiple-masterings, etc. Kind of difficult to miss them when they are so many options to choose from!
my thoughts exactly

[Fritter]

Loved Let's Dance as a teen and Low and Lodger as a grown-up, basically any Bowie album that begins in L. Can't imagine why they'e bothering to re-release Tonight or Tin Machine though.

[037Leo]

I like DB, but I already have most of those songs.

"Re-issue ! Re-package ! Re-package !
Re-evaluate the songs
Double-pack with a photograph
Extra Track (and a tacky badge)"

http://www.neukol.org.uk/blogzene/media/Morrissey.jpg

[Chora]

I like DB, but I already have most of those songs.

"Re-issue ! Re-package ! Re-package !
Re-evaluate the songs
Double-pack with a photograph
Extra Track (and a tacky badge)"

http://www.neukol.org.uk/blogzene/media/Morrissey.jpg


The quote above I find it so contraditing especially for Morrissey who is a queen of repackaging, re-issue etc. "Viva Hate" "Kill Uncle" "Your Arsenal" and "Vauxhall and I" are going to be re-master in 2007.

[E-Lo]

I wonder if these re-issues will have all those interesting bonus tracks from the Rykodisc reissues done in the 90s

[037Leo]

The quote above I find it so contraditing especially for Morrissey who is a queen of repackaging, re-issue etc. "Viva Hate" "Kill Uncle" "Your Arsenal" and "Vauxhall and I" are going to be re-master in 2007.


Yep, he is a repackage whore, he wrote those lyrics on the Smiths final album though. However It's the evil record companies that keep regurgitating and milking the artists. He almost fainted by the "The very best of the Smiths cover" and track listing. He's such a primadonna.

[plink]

It probably means they've been re-mastered Dave with extra tracks that weren't good enough to feature first time round.
i thought that's what they did the last time simon, i recall some dreadful stuff on hunky dory when i bought it (again) a couple of years ago :(

did the laughing gnome ever see the light of day again anywhere? it still raises a smile each time i hear it :lol:

[mmmender]

FROM UNCUT.CO.UK's website:

Everyday, we bring you the best thing we've seen on YouTube -- a great piece of archive footage, a music promo or a clip from one of our favourite movies of TV shows.

Today: Watch a '70s Thin White Duke-era Bowie perform “Fame” – the 1975 track that was named and partly written by none other than The Beatles’ John Lennon.

This memorably bad example of lip-synching was a US TV performance for “The Cher Show” on November 23, 1975.

Strange filming techniques mean that Bowie's head appears to be floating free of his body – spooky.

WATCH HERE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ6Lnl4LZBI

[Simonp]

Happy Birthday to David Bowie who is 60 today!

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[Simonp]

http://www.intuitivemusic.com/images/C-david-bowie-2.jpg

[Simonp]

http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/David-Bowie-Poster-C10087534.jpeg

[Simonp]

http://www.musik-base.de/images/groups/David-Bowie.jpg

[Simonp]

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[Simonp]

http://muppet.wikia.com/images/2/2d/Character.jareth.jpg

[Simonp]

http://www.muzieklijstjes.nl/Tips/BowieDLOw.jpg

[Simonp]

http://www.marstalent.com/marssouth/pics/bowie_brighton.jpg

[randomrob]

http://www.monkeysvsrobots.com/mvsrpm/images/moviestv/thehunger3.jpg

[Angel]

Seems like just yesterday I was watching "An Earthling at 50".

[mmmender]

Test your knowledge of David Bowie

http://www.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/quiz/quiz.cgi?quiz=arts_bowie

[randomrob]

5 out of 10 ouch

[Nomen_Luni]

7 out of 10. Not bad at all. :)

[postlibyan]

6.

not bad considering i am not really a Bowie fan at all.

PJK

[elysium]

You scored 2 out of 10.
Major Tom to ground control: No signs of intelligent life here.

:lol:

[Jeek]

7 out of 10

[andylama]

5

[pilgrimx]

3

[mmmender]

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David Bowie has been getting arty in the name of charity, designing a personalised mug for charity artwork project, Whatever It Takes.

The singer's artistic, personalised mug features a self-portrait and his interpretation of a symbol of hope conveys his message of 'Peace Thru Art.'

Monies raised will be donated to Bowie's choice of charities, including Trade Plus Aid and Save The Children.

Bowie is a supporter of Whatever It Takes, whose aim is to "sell merchandise with a meaning." The charity gathers artwork from celebrities, each of them donating a symbol of hope, a self-portrait and a message of hope for the future. The artworks have been used to create clothing, tableware and ethical cosmetics.

Symbols of hope have previously been donated by Coldplay, Paul and Heather McCartney, Queen's Brian May and Pink Floyd's Nick Mason.

A Bowie mug is a bargain £9.99 and available online by clicking here (http://www.whateverittakes.org/)

In other Bowie news, he is curating the first High Line Festival, in the neighbourhood of the disused railway park of the same name, in New York, this May.

Bowie will headline the large outdoor concert, his first show in New York since 2003. He will also be picking newer artists appear throughout the festival. He told Billboard last year, "I've been particularly excited about seeking out emerging artists and giving them a place in a festival that will also feature some very well-known names."

More details are expected to be announced soon.

[mmmender]

David Bowie gets internet award

He's set to win lifetime achievement award

04.May.07 3:07pm
David Bowie (http://www.nme.com/artists/david-bowie) is set be honoured for his pioneering internet work.

It has been announced he will receive a Webby Lifetime Achievement Award on June 5.

The Webby Awards honour excellence on the internet, and the awards ceremony will be held in New York.

As well as launching BowieNet in 1998, the singer created UltraStar- a digital media company that creates cutting edge online content for artists like The Rolling Stones (http://www.nme.com/artists/the-rolling-stones) - and BowieArt, a site which connects emerging visual artists with collectors worldwide, reports Paste.

[mmmender]

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David Bowie has denied that he is to play an evil alien abductor in the fourth series of Doctor Who, as reported in The Sun newspaper today (August 30).

The Sun said that the rock legend was to appear in the two-part episode in which he was to play the role of crime author Agatha Christie's kidnapper.

The singer's publicist has now denied Bowie has any involvement in the project.

As previously reported, Kylie Minogue is guest-appearing in the Doctor Who Christmas special.

[mmmender]

Rare David Bowie memorabilia up for auction



Mask from 'The Hunger' available

11.Dec.07 10:57am
Rare David Bowie (http://www.nme.com/artists/david-bowie) memorabilia in form of a mask from 'The Hunger' has gone up for sale.

It is a "life mask" of Bowie's face, cast in white plaster from the mould taken directly from the singer's face during production of the movie.

It was made for use as a makeup tester for the film and according to the description on 991.com (http://991.com/Buy/ProductInformation.aspx?StockNumber=393906) it "is amazingly detailed with every wrinkle and pore evident and would look amazing mounted."

Bowie starred in the film in 1983 with Catherine Deneuve.