david bowie

Ha, Bowie keeps taking the conversation in interesting directions but the guy doesn't even notice. He just wants to get on to the next dumb question.

This period is my absolute favourite Bowie look. I love his hair. So beautiful.

You should see my fifth-grade yearbook.

Why? What's in it?

That haircut x 70

Interesting, in the beginning of part II he mentions that he's about to go to NY to work on Robert Fripp's album (which I can only assume is Exposure, an album that does not feature DB)... I wonder what the story was there.

Sid c. 1973:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BZKw9oTIYAAoalR.jpg

whoa that pic is awesome!

I've heard the story a few different ways/times. Fripp was doing a series of records either with different vocalists, or one vocalist each. Peter Gabriel's second album, Daryl Hall's Sacred Songs and eventually the LPs Exposure and God Save The Queen/Under Heavy Manners. The latter had David Byrne on vocals but he replaced someone else. Or Exposure was supposed to be all Darryl Hall but Hall's label freaked and he was replaced with Peter Hammill? I don't know the story, but it's not hard to imagine Bowie getting mixed up with all that.

It underscores what a weird album Exposure is.

Just in case someone hasn't heard it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=089SH63fiSw

Iirc, Fripp wanted Hall to be King Crimson's singer!

this one is even more frippy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epLXwup4bpA

Anyway, just saw a VERY expensive Louis Vuiton ad w/ Bowie performing "Id Rather Be High"

Which features the Venetian Mix of said song.
Thanks for the links to that '77 interview, I've seen a short clip of it before, the interviewer is embarrassing. And thanks a LOT for that fantastic Sid Vicious photo!

Happy Birthday!

I always play this for the class on Jan. 8:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa6bI_95G9I

And then I try to come up with some kind of explanation of him. Even though I don't have one. (Also played Velvet Goldmine's opening credits this morning.)

Nice choice, that. I'd REALLY love some sort of Criterion release of VG at this point.

New Box Series Launch: http://www.davidbowie.com/news/five-years-1969-1973-box-set-due-september-54571

No Lightning Frightening or Sweet Head?

No cover of "Growing Up" either.

Or "London, Bye, Ta-Ta".

So 25+ years later and nobody has bested the Ryko reissue program

Yeah, his catalogue has passed over to Parlophone now

Are these going to be remastered or will the Steve Hoffman forum members die in terror

6 Original Studio Albums:
David Bowie AKA Space Oddity*
The Man Who Sold The World*
Hunky Dory*
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
Aladdin Sane
PinUps*

*New 2015 Remasters.

as lovely as these will be i think i am happy with my ryko editions and replica jap sleeve remasters.

this review seems a bit "old school":

Still, they cut loose on the album's most brilliant jewel, "Queen Bitch", a furiously rocking theatrical miniature (Bowie-the-character-actor has rarely chewed the scenery harder) that out-Velvet Undergrounds the Velvet Underground.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21066-five-years-1969-1973/

glad it's finally established - for a new generation - that Hunky and Ziggy are timeless classics

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/theater/a-visit-to-the-strange-secretive-world-of-david-bowies-lazarus.html?ref=music

Looking fwd to Blackstar in Jan. o course.

I have no idea what to think tonight. Legit sources reporting his death and insisting it is not a hoax. (Fuck the internet.)

If so ...

http://thr.cm/06iM8z

Its on gmtvnow, god!

yeah don't know but seems to be legit? RIP

certainly seems that way

it's real

https://twitter.com/ManMadeMoon/status/686441083648212992

also, fuck

http://www.davidbowie.com/news/january-10-2016-55521

fucking hell :(

this is hitting me hard. died two days after his birthday, lemmy died four days after his.

Fuck

"I heard a rumour from ground control.
Oh no, don't say its true."

David Bowie R.I.P

New Box Set on Tidal (I don't know if glenn has a copy yet): https://listen.tidal.com/album/64975950

Guardian on same: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/22/david-bowie-who-can-i-be-now-1974-1976-album-box-set-review

The Bowiesongs blog has restarted:

https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2016/10/12/heat/

Bowie: The Man Who Changed the World (2016)

Cannot Recommend. Uneven narrative, insufficient interviewees and terrible editing make for painful viewing.

David Bowie: A Life, the biography from Dylan Jones looks to be very well-reviewed, but i'm not interested in reading about such an visual and aural icon -- i want to see and hear it.

https://lifeonmagrs.blogspot.de/2017/10/fancy-believing-in-goblin-king-my.html

David Bowie: A Life, the biography from Dylan Jones looks to be very well-reviewed, but i'm not interested in reading about such an visual and aural icon -- i want to see and hear it.

― bodacious ignoramus, Thursday, September 28, 2017 3:36 AM

Seems to have gotten a good review from Jon Savage.

still looking for a decent copy of this for less than 50 quid

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51A0MTWYFVL._SX360_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

gonna have to bite the bullet sooner or later.

the Bowie Is exhibit is shutting down apparently and having it's final run in Brooklyn this spring. I booked a trip out there to see it.

Just got the Dylan Jones book 'David Bowie: A Life' which is a brand new oral history with *180* people interviewed. Chris O Leary (of Pushing Ahead blog fame) said nice things about it so that's good enough for me.

So the new 5-yr box set, LOVING THE ALIEN, is out, with rejigged 'Never Let Me Down' album. The new production can't make this a masterpiece, but the new version of Glass Spiders is very nice.