In a strange way it was fortuitous that the original link I used for this song during my 2016 song-a-day tribute stopped working because Picasso died 50 years ago this month. That coincidence is just about the only thing this…
Moonage Daydream, the acclaimed documentary by filmmaker Brett Morgan is in the news because it is becoming available by streaming on HBO Max. It was snubbed at the Academy Awards but it received plenty of other awards and near-universal praise…
Rolling Stone has become as much an online publication as a physical magazine, if not more, and like many such publications, it likes its lists. A recent one listed the 50 worst decisions in rock history. Most lists that have…
I came across this video of the Bowie cover band, Holy Holy performing “Width of a Circle,” one of the early heavy metal-style songs from The Man Who Sold the World. The video identifies the band as “Woody Woodsmansey’s Holy…
This video is very similar to yesterday’s with a few exceptions. I might have skipped it except I was actually at this concert, which turned out to be the final Bowie concert I would ever attend. The video itself and…
Singer and civil rights leader Harry Belafonte has died at the age of 96. There’s not much of a Bowie connection, but I was able to find this picture of them both attending an event honoring Susan Sarandon at the…
This is another concert video that popped up in my YouTube feed. An obvious bootleg, the sound quality is pretty good though there a few interruptions in the recording. There’s an argument that this phase of Bowie’s touring career— his…
I am not especially drawn to reggae music. Bowie’s main experiment with the genre was with Tonight, the album that is probably least popular among fans (which, in fairness, is not a reggae album, thought some of the songs are…
I usually like to select a new video by a lesser known performer for the cover of the week, but this appears to be an older cover by an established band. Nonetheless, it was recently posted to YouTube, so that…
This should be funnier than it actually is. I never saw the show, Flight of the Conchords, but apparently an episode in 2007 had something to do with David Bowie. Part of the episode was the eponymous band performing this…