John Maggiore

Bowie sings in Chinese in this video, suggesting that consistent with its name, this song indeed has something to do with Tibet. I never read the book or saw the movie of the same name and don't know if the…

This is a curious song. It is certainly sad, but the reason why is a bit of a mystery. At first it seems to be about coping with the loss of a breakup that's the fault of the song's narrator.…

This is another song that made its album feel like it was really about 9/11, although it is more a coincidence of timing. It really establishes the sense that something consequential, and probably very bad, just happened establishing a paradox…

Here is a clip of Bowie in 1979 performing The Man Who Sold the World, TVC15 and Boys Keep Swinging on SNL. Although I have posted two of these three songs before, and have been saving TVC15, I wanted to…

I thought of this clip because I saw that this album along with Santa Monica '72, another live album, are being reissued on vinyl. Of the three songs in this medley the most interesting (but also least good) is the…

Labyrinth has been popping up in various places as a Bowie tribute and is now going to return to theaters nationwide in September. I suppose Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is too much of a downer. I think of this as…

Why am I posting this song in the aftermath of the Pennsylvania primary? In 1974 Bowie was in the midst of his biggest-production tour to date, the Diamond Dogs Tour.  The Diamond Dogs album was the last of the Ziggy…

I've been waiting for the right occasion to post this one, which is one of my favorites and one of Bowie's signature songs.  The US Treasury's decision to feature women on the backs of $10 bills along with Harriett Tubman…

Today is the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, which was the inspiration for this song. It is my favorite from the album and the most like something he might have done ten years earlier from this period. Album: Never…

In honor of the 400th anniversary of the death of Britain's second greatest artist, William Shakespeare, here is Bowie's most Shakespearian performance.  At one point, Bowie held the record for highest pay per song for a performance- I think he…