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…
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…