With fans struggling to come to terms with David Bowie's musical hiatus and likely
retirement, any new Bowie-related material has been eagerly pursued. Last year, the leak of the unreleased album
Toy (
previously) slaked the thirst of those needing a Bowie fix. Last week, an unauthorized preview of another Bowie project emerged—
Bowie: Object. First announced in
2010, the book features 100 objects from Bowie's archive, with text written by the man himself.
posted by kimdog
on Apr 25, 2012 -
12 comments
...there’s some desperation to this junk version of “Dancing in the Street,” with both parties trying to affirm their A-1 celebrity status. One of the more pernicious effects of the whole Live Aid/Farm Aid/Band Aid spectacle was to cement the hierarchy of the “legend” rock acts and a smaller tier of anointed successors from the slightly-younger generation (Tom Petty, Sting, Dire Straits, U2). It was the height of the Boomer Counter-Reformation. The late Eighties would see the over-publicized returns of everyone from Steve Winwood to the Monkees to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, to a revamped George Harrison to a MOR version of Pink Floyd to Robbie Robertson pretending that he was Peter Gabriel (a version of Gabriel who couldn’t sing) to an all-star Yes and a Zeppelin-sampling Robert Plant, culminating in the return of the “revitalized” Stones in 1989, the touring company now reincorporated into a gleaming multinational. As Marcello Carlin said back when Popular covered this single: “Suddenly we were once again reminded who in pop and rock mattered and who didn’t…With their massacre of “Dancing In The Street,” Bowie and Jagger seemed to relish rubbing it in.“
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The Annotated Jagger/Bowie "Dancing in the Street"
posted by anazgnos
on Jan 17, 2012 -
180 comments
Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy with Will Ferrell & John C. Reilly. Well, right or wrong
they sing either way.
posted by punkfloyd
on Dec 14, 2010 -
12 comments
Wow, what a life for
Dana Gillespie. At 14 she was British junior national water-skiing champion. At 15 she was
dating classmate
David Bowie, who taught her
guitar. Had bit parts in
movies by 16. She dated
Donovan for a little while, and Jimmy Page produced and
played on her first album. She went on to a long string of starring roles in London's West End. She has devoted the latter part of her life to the
blues, hosting an annual blues festival on the island of Mustique, recently featuring fellow Mustiquian Mick Jagger. And if all that weren't enough, she has also released several albums in Sanskrit under the moniker
Third Man, devoted to the years she spent living in India.
Allah Ho Akhbar::
Chitta Chora::
Om Shakti
posted by puny human
on Oct 27, 2010 -
20 comments
The Music of Jacques Brel is an article by music journalist Amy Hanson about the career of pop music legend Jacques Brel and his effect on popular music in the English language. A lot of songs and covers are mentioned in the article, below the cut are links to the songs that I could find videos of online.
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posted by Kattullus
on Aug 6, 2010 -
49 comments
Christiane F was a 1981 German film that portrayed the life of young heroin addicts growing up in 1970's Berlin. Notable for the collaboration of David Bowie, the film became
well known for its realistic portrayal of drug use.
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posted by panboi
on Jun 29, 2008 -
28 comments
The great Nat Tate hoax. 9 years ago, writer
William Boyd and singer
David Bowie (easily two of the coolest persons alive) joined forces to perpetrate one of the most elaborate art hoaxes to date: the "rediscovery" of Nat Tate, American Artist. A Boyd-penned
biography was bombastically presented in
Jeff Koons' gallery (who wasn't in on the joke)...to be enthusiastically lapped up by NYC's glitteratti. If only they had bothered to check the date...
posted by Skeptic
on Apr 1, 2007 -
63 comments
Want to know where David Bowie was on a given day between 1974 and 1980? Now you can
find out.
posted by cedar
on Feb 9, 2005 -
34 comments
