Bowie performed this version of “Space Oddity” on a New Year’s Eve show hosted by British entertainer Kenny Everett on the last night of 1979. The production is fairly elaborate and uses imagery and at least one set (the padded…
I recently watched the movie, Glass Onion, staring Daniel Craig and, among others, Janelle Monáe. I didn’t know much about Janelle Monae, but the movie includes two Bowie songs in its soundtrack, “Star” and “Starman.” Little did I know there…
Several days ago, when I was doing the top 10 Bowie songs of the year, in which I used Bowie songs to stand in for larger issues of the year, I associated “Space Oddity” with the pictures that came form…
In the category of this being my blog and I can write whatever I want, this particular post is less about Bowie and more about the state of my home town of Buffalo (which I am not in). Buffalo, known…
YouTube is full of Bowie covers from performers ranging from the most famous of bands to amateurs who don’t know what they are doing. It appears, though, that new covers are posted every week. So, starting today I’m going to…
I was thinking about reposting the weird but well-known Bowie/Bing Crosby “Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth” duet, but came across this parody by Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly. One of the funny things about this is that for almost…
In 1984 Bowie appeared in the introduction to this animated film (originally released without the Bowie intro in 1982) based on a children’s book. I never read the book, and to tell you the truth I have never watched the…
This is it, the 100th album I’m commenting on in this blog. And this is a good one. The challenge for any posthumous Bowie album is for it to have anything truly new. This soundtrack manages to do as good…
I have been doing some version of this project since 2016 and am still coming across actual Bowie videos— videos made by Bowie for his songs— that are new to me. Such is the case for this one for “Survive.”…
Look at the Moon is the last of the Brilliant Live Adventures series of albums that were available for a limited time on the DavidBowie.com web site, all of which (mostly) feature live performances by Bowie in the 1990s. This…