10/1/23 Update: Much of the commentary I’ve read about this song focuses on the first part, which, as the name implies, is about a “free festival” and is usually interpreted to be Bowie’s disillusioned goodbye to the 60s. My great…
In don’t know much about the band, Pulp, but came across this video that features various parts of the song performed by impersonators of a wide variety of familiar singers, including Bowie. Instead of linking to the video, I’m linking…
I came across this video by French musician Sébastien Bédé while looking for videos of the week. This doesn’t qualify for my own made-up rules because it wasn’t posted in the last week— it’s a few years old. But it’s…
Amidst a higher than average number of “Space Oddity” and “Heroes” covers this week (some of which were quite good), this video by Sunken Screens stands out. It has all the aspects of videos I like for this weekly feature—…
“Nacho” is a YouTuber who makes terrific unofficial videos. Here he claims to have “restored” this video of Bowie and Cher on the Cher Show performing “Can You Hear Me” as a duet. I am not seeing major differences from…
KillerStar is a new band largely made up of Bowie alumni about to release a new album. The band has already released its first single, which is featured in the above video, “Should Have Known Better.” The song does not…
I posted an update on “Holy Holy” a few days ago which features a version of the song that was actually recorded for potential inclusion on Ziggy Stardust, but was dropped until it was used as a B-side later and…
My original 2016 post about this song (click to link) uses an excellent video of the band Shearwater performing it from a series of videos of the band covering the entire Lodger album. So this is the first appearance of…
The Bridge School is a program for educating children with severe speech and physical impairments. Neil Young and his wife are supporters and have organized an annual fundraising concert on the school’s behalf at which Bowie once performed (see my…
Update: 9/17/2023 “Holy Holy” sounds almost like a fragment of a song. Bowie juxtaposes religious words, thus “holy,” with intimate terms like, “hold on to anyone.” Like he couldn’t make up his mind between “holy” and “hold me.” Adding to…