Monthly Archives: June 2023

I posted the 4K upgrade of the “Life on Mars” video a few days ago, and now here’s a similar upgrade to Bowie singing “Ziggy Stardust” from Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture. I’m still not sure how this is different…

OK, this entry is really just an excuse to post a video of the Andrew’s Sisters singing, “The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B,” which is actually a clip from the 1941 Abbot and Costello movie, Buck Privates. The…

I posted a song yesterday by Janelle Monáe that mentions Bowie. I wrote that Monáe admired Bowie and had previously covered, “Heroes.” The song was used in an anti-bullying campaign that, I guess was sponsored by Pepsi. This video tells…

Back on December 30th, I posted a video of Janelle Monáe and Young Pete performing, “Moonage Daydream,” explaining that Monáe and co-star Edward Norton almost performed the song in the movie, Glass Onion. As it was, that movie included two…

This one picked itself: as you will notice, the opening frames of this video label it “cover of the month.” I’m a little unclear what that exactly means, but for purposes of this blog, it is the Bowie Cover of…

I don’t like to post the same video more than once in this blog, and unless I’ve done so accidentally I don’t think I actually have. That said, I’ve posted at least two versions of “Life on Mars,” which is…

Yesterday I posted the original version of “Its Only Rock ‘N” Roll (But I Like It)” on which Bowie sang backup. While looking for a link to that audio, I came across this liv version of Bowie performing “Diamond Dogs”…

How did I not know that Bowie was involved with this Rolling Stones’ hit? Well, that’s because Bowie isn’t on the album version that I’ve heard for most of my life. But it turns out that he sang on the…