Yesterday I summarized the top 10 Bowie songs as expressed in the first ten results from Googling “Top 10 Bowie songs.” There are far more than ten such lists and, in fact, my phone and IPad gave me different results,…
OK, this is a very loose definition of “top 10.” I was wondering what Google would give me if I searched for “Top 10 David Bowie songs.” What follows are the first ten items that came back: 1. Top 10…
Sara Captain is a British artist whose primary subject is David Bowie. She’s had numerous exhibitions and sells her work for upward of £2000. You can see her work— and buy it at her website, which is here. I thought…
I’ve heard segments from this show before but watched the entire thing for the first time when it popped up on my YouTube account. Bowie’s performance is strong and worth hearing, but there’s much more to the show that I…
Sadly here’s another Bowie tribute show (actually, a show featuring the music of Bowie and Prince) coming close to home that I won’t be attending out of concern about the absence of COVID protection protocols. That said, I thought I’d…
OK, here’s the Bowie connection: “Star Wars actor Mark Hamill revealed a connection between the original 1977 movie and David Bowie. Hamill related a ‘fun fact’ tweet, noting that he'd gone inside a papier-mache creature on the set in 1976,…
Ted: Wait, let me guess, Piggy Stardust. Coach Beard: Rashers to rashers, oink to oinky. Ted: I love it. I of course got it immediately and said, “Piggy Stardust” along with Ted in real time. More evidence that Bowie has…
Moonage Daydream, the acclaimed documentary by filmmaker Brett Morgan is in the news because it is becoming available by streaming on HBO Max. It was snubbed at the Academy Awards but it received plenty of other awards and near-universal praise…
Rolling Stone has become as much an online publication as a physical magazine, if not more, and like many such publications, it likes its lists. A recent one listed the 50 worst decisions in rock history. Most lists that have…
This video is very similar to yesterday’s with a few exceptions. I might have skipped it except I was actually at this concert, which turned out to be the final Bowie concert I would ever attend. The video itself and…