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…
Singer and civil rights leader Harry Belafonte has died at the age of 96. There’s not much of a Bowie connection, but I was able to find this picture of them both attending an event honoring Susan Sarandon at the…
This is another concert video that popped up in my YouTube feed. An obvious bootleg, the sound quality is pretty good though there a few interruptions in the recording. There’s an argument that this phase of Bowie’s touring career— his…
The Music Masters Collective in the Catskills is doing a “Camp Stardust”— immersive Bowie experience in a camp-like setting this summer for four days in July. The David Bowie World Fan Convention will take place in New York City in…
This is a link to a documentary of sorts about what Bowie was doing in 1980. It focuses on his stint on Broadway in The Elephant Man, but it also covers Scary Monsters, which Bowie released that same year. It’s…
I went to my first Bowie concert in 1987– when the Glass Spider tour came to Toronto. It was from that’s point on that I became a fan. Around that time, the way we listened to music was changing from…
What possible connection could David Bowie have with Donald Trump? Why would Newsweek superimpose Bowie’s face into a picture of the former president as part of its coverage of Trump’s arraignment in New York? The reason, it turns out, is…
I was embarrassed to admit that I didn’t recognize the name of Ryuichi Sakamoto when I began to see stories about his recent death, all the more so because most of those stories connected him to David Bowie. A pioneer…