Madam Tussaud’s London wax museum launched a “Music Festival Experience” earlier this year featuring a new wax figure of Bowie as Ziggy. Attached are two photos— it looks pretty lifelike to me. In a press release (click to link to…
Add Tom Petty to the list of artists who name-drop Bowie in a song. I’m a fan of Tom Petty’s, but I didn’t know “Same Old You” and don’t own the album its on, Long After Dark. Not surprisingly, I…
Well, the answer to the question is no, David Bowie did not inspire the actual Robert Oppenheimer. The physicist died in 1967 and thus did not live long enough to hear “Space Oddity.” Alas. But, Bowie did inspire actor Cillian…
OK, this one has absolutely nothing to do with David Bowie. We did see Mission Impossible 7: Dead Reckoning, Pt. 1 on a Saturday night, so there’s that. Its also the first drive in movie night of season that had…
Velvet Scaffoldings is a two-person French band that was originally formed in 2020 (what a year to for a band!) Based on their social media presence, it’s a “real” band, not just two people in their living room performing the…
This is a remastered version of a clip of Bowie singing “Rebel Rebel” on a Dutch show called TopPop. Bowie is lip-syncing here, and I think he’s doing a good job of matching his mouth with the words. But he…
I was half-watching the 2014 movie, A Most Wanted Man, which is mostly noted as being the actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s last, when Hoffman’s character walks into a bar and “Everyone Says Hi” is playing. Except it isn’t Bowie’s version…
Debbie Harry turned 78 earlier this month (on July 1st, to be precise). I saw a lot of social media posts about that, perhaps in part because, well, I don’t think of Debbie Harry as being 78. I’m guessing others…
In poking around for uses of “Starman” in movies— and there are many— I came across this audio clip of “Space Oddity” from the soundtrack of the 2013 Ben Still film, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. The clip uses…
OK, one more of these— Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox Story is a 2007 comedy starring John C. Reilly as the fictional rock star, Dewey Cox. It’s a parody of just about every rock star biographical movie, almost all of…