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…
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…
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…
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…
This full-length video of Bowie’s appearance on the French show, Taratata, is as clear as YouTube videos get, both audibly and visually. It contains Bowie and his 1995 band performing “The Voyer of Utter Destruction as Beauty,” “The Man Who…
Chat GBT gave coherent and plausible responses when I asked it about Bowie’s best albums since Scary Monsters (see yesterday’s post). Its response to my asking about Bowie’s worst song showed the inadequacies of the AI in its current form.…
Inevitably, while it’s new and still funny because it makes mistakes (and not terrifying because it doesn’t), I started asking Chat GBT questions about Bowie. The answers to some, like “what are some of his best songs” are boring (they…
Yet another sign of Bowie as transcendent cultural and marketing phenomena: The Hotel Ziggy is a new rock-themed hotel located on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. The hotel’s proprietor is quite explicit about the hotel being named for Ziggy…
Yet another example of Bowie as a cultural phenomena, or at least an advertising phenomena— Shoezels’ limited edition Bowie-tribute urban boots. These aren’t the first— Vans did a limited run of Bowie-inspired sneakers a few years back. Not sure what…
July will mark the 50th anniversary of Bowie’s self-proclaimed final concert, at London’s Hammersmith Odeon, which was captured on film and turned into a concert movie and live album in 1983. The film will be restored, expanded and released in…