“Uncle Arthur,” (1966)
I am in the process of writing the companion piece to the blog entry of a few days ago, “Bowie knew how to end an album,” which, of course is going to be, “Bowie knew how to start an album.”…
Gail Ann Dorsey and Matthieu Chedid cover “Space Oddity”
Gail Ann Dorsey was a conspicuous and much-welcomed presence in Bowie’s live shows for the last several years he performed and was a regular member of his band, playing bass and singing, from 1995 until his death. Of course she…
Bowie’s version of “In the Heat of the Morning” (1967)
After posting the Last Shadow Puppets’ version of this song it occurred to me that I have never posted a stand alone version of Bowie singing it. I have never been drawn to this song so I haven’t devoted too…
The Last Shadow Puppets’ version of “In the Heat of the Morning”
I posted a cover of “Moonage Daydream” by this band as the cover of the week yesterday. In the course of reading about the band, I saw that their first single was a 2008 cover of this obscure Bowie song…
Bowie cover of the week: The Last Shadow Puppets perform “Moonage Daydream”
The Last Shadow Puppets are very much a “real” band, and I’ll link to both their Wikipedia page and their own web page at the end of this post. I had never heard of them before finding this recently posted…
The 1973 Cherry Vanilla Interview
Cherry Vanilla was (is— she’s still very much alive) a figure out of Andy Warhol’s “Factory” who, among other things, appeared in Warhol’s infamous play, Pork in 1971. Bowie saw the play and hired various people involved with the production…
“Hammerhead,” vocal version (1992)
My new favorite Tin Machine song. I never heard this before today. In writing yesterday’s post, I came across a reference to a vocal version of the unlisted piece of music that ends Tin Machine II called “Hammerhead.” To make…
Bowie knew how to end an album!
Most Bowie albums are structured in a particular way. With some exceptions, Bowie was very deliberate in song order. Time and again he picked the perfect song with which to begin and end an album. I’ve been wanting to write…
Markus Klinko Bowie photos
Photographer Markus Klinko has an exhibit on display in Dallas through June 22nd called, Icons: Bowie to Beyoncé featuring photos of various celebrities including — you guessed it, Bowie and Beyoncé. I didn’t recognize the name but came to leader…
And now for something completely different…
I came across this video of the cover of Heroes comically brought to life via a YouTube page called Dave’s Hit Parade. “Dave” “presumably” has made a series of such videos, poking fun at different famous album covers. Not really…