Interview index
One of the most rewarding aspects of writing this blog has been the chance to speak with fascinating people from around the world about David Bowie. This page offers easy access to those conversations, and I’ll continue updating it as new interviews are published—usually on Saturdays. Stay tuned for more exciting discussions to come!
Click on the subject’s name to link to their interview.
Denis O’Regan: Photographing Bowie Around the World, September 12, 2026
Simon Goddard on Bowie’s 1976 Odyssey, September 5, 2026
Mapping “Heroes”: Hans Meertens on Bowie, Berlin and the Art of Connection, September 2, 2026
Emm Gryner Remembers Performing with Bowie at NetAid 1999, August 29, 2026
Nick Smart on the New Issue of David Bowie Glamour, August 26, 2026
Alex Storer Goes Inside Outside, August 22, 2026
Prof. Alex Sharp on Bowie and Existentialism, August 15, 2026
Tom Hagler on Bowie, the BBC and his Heroes…, August 8, 2026
Getting a Read on the Bowie Book Club (with Greg Miller and Kristianne Huntsberger), August 1, 2026
James Briggs’ Bowie Bicycle Odyssey, July 25, 2026
Keanan Duffty on Slinky Vagabond’s New Album, July 18, 2026
Bowie Author Adam Steiner on CHANGESTWOBOWIE, July 11, 2026
Susan Compo on David Bowie and The Man Who Fell to Earth, July 4 2026
Talking Bowie with Arsalan Mohammad, host of the Album to Album podcast, June 27, 2026
Peter Bebergal on Bowie and the Occult, June 20, 2026
Bowie collaborator Kevin Armstrong on his new album, June 17, 2026
Daniel Rachel on Pop Music’s Fascination with Nazis, June 13, 2026
Donny McCaslin on MXD, his new album with Ryan Dahle, June 11, 2026
John Cameron Mitchell on David Bowie, June 6, 2026
David Bowie: Early Years with Con Chrisoulis, May 30, 2026
Designer Jonathan Barnbrook on working with Bowie, May 23, 2026
Julian Shah-Tayler: Where Dreams Are Woven, May 16, 2026
From Kether to Malkuth: Jay Michaelson on Bowie, Kabbalah and Western Esotericism, May 9, 2026
This bonus segment with Jay was published on May 13: Bowie, Millennialism, and the End of the World.
Prof. Nicholas Greco on 1. Outside and Bowie in Darkness, May 2, 2026
Brixtone Never Plays to the Gallery, April 25, 2026
Frank Ockenfels 3: Collaborations with Bowie, April 18, 2026
Yuki Numata Resnick Building Community Through Art & Music, April 11, 2026
Simon Critchley on Mysticism and David Bowie’s Spiritual Searching, April 4, 2026
Brixton Jones IS David Bowie, March 28 2026
Bowie Author Adam Steiner on CHANGESONEBOWIE, March 21, 2026
Steve Conte on the New York Dolls, Bowie and a Life in Rock ‘N’ Roll, March 14, 2026
This Ain’t Rock ‘N’ Roll: Daniel Rachel on Pop Music’s Fascination with Nazis, March 7, 2026
Keanan Duffty on working with Bowie, Fashion and Slinky Vagabond, February 28, 2026
Alexander Larman on the Resurrection of David Bowie, February 21, 2026
Loving the Alien: Danny Michel on his Bowie Cover Album, February 14, 2026
Peter Ormerod on Bowie’s Search for Life, Death and God, February 7, 2026
Inside the Labyrinth: Buffalo, NY’s Bowie Experience, February 4, 2026
John Fugelsang on the Separation of Church and Hate, Jesus … and David Bowie, January 31, 2026
John and Jesse Malloy— the Fantastic Voyage Guys— Are Back to Count Down Bowie’s Best Live Performances! January 29, 2026
Bowie Author Don Klees on Heathen, January 24, 2026.
Joel Dinerstein: The Professor of Cool, January 17, 2026.
Sophia Anne Caruso: Lazarus Star Talks About Working With Bowie On His Final Project, January 10, 2026
Bowie Birthday Special: Emm Gryner’s New Podcast! January 8, 2026
Modern Love: Tribute Band Recreates the Bowie Experience, January 3, 2026
Media Critic Frank Housh on Jazzin’ for Blue Jean, December 27, 2025
Dr. Leah Kardos on the Legacy of David Bowie, December 20, 2025
Pittsburgh Duo Canary on Bowie: Annual Covers and a Legacy Across Time, December 13, 2025
Henry Hey and Mark Plati on the Sound and Vision of David Bowie Concert! December 6, 2025
Prof. Gretchen Shae’s Year of the Diamond Dogs, November 29, 2005
KillerStar returns with The Afterglow, November 28, 2005
Prof. James McAllister on 1984 and Bowie, November 22, 2025
Sophia Anne Caruso: One of of the Stars of Lazarus on the Play’s 10th Anniversary, November 15, 2025
Dancing with Queen Anne, November 8, 2025
The Swingles Bring “Life on Mars” Down to Earth, November 1, 2025
Bonus Interview: Marc Lowe on Buddhism, October 30, 2025
Bowie and Buddhism: Prof. Donald Lopez Interview, October 25, 2025
A conversation about “nothing” with Professor Lawrence Krauss, October 18, 2025
The Beat of Denny Seiwell, October 9 2025
The Return of Carlos Alomar, October 4, 2025
Donny McCaslin on his new album, the Blackstar Symphony and Bowie, September 27 2025
Carlos Alomar Goes Back to Berlin, September 20 2025
The Cynz Rock: Exclusive Interview, September 13, 2025
Emm Gryner on touring with Bowie, Voice and the Healing Power of Singing, September 6 2025
Record Executive Marty Scott on a “Jem” of a Bowie Tribute Album, August 30 2025
Saturn Stories: Simon Jacobs’ Out of This World Tales of David Bowie, August 23, 2025
Pushing Ahead with Chris O’Leary, August 16, 2025
Sandy Kaye Takes Us For A Breath of Fresh Air, August 9 2025
Carl Ewens on David Bowie’s “Golden Years,” August 2 2025
David Power Takes Us Beyond Bowie and Berlin, July 26 2025
Inside Nocturnicorn’s Bowie Anthology with Alex S. Johnson and Alea Celeste, July 19, 2025.
Bowie, Bauhaus, and The Hunger: Alex S. Johnson on Vampires, Music, and Myth, July 18, 2025
The “Heroes” of Karin Ann, July 12, 2025
The Beat of Tony Newman: An Interview with the Diamond Dogs Drummer. July 5, 2025
Reading Through Bowie’s bookshelf: A Conversation with the Hosts of the Bowie Book Club Podcast, June 28, 2025
Marc Lowe on Bowie and Dystopia, June 21, 2025
On Track with Bowie Author Don Klees, June 14, 2025
Stars of the Berklee College of Music Bowie Show! June 7, 2025
Jennifer Elster Takes Us Inside: An Exclusive Interview with the Artist Who Designed Bowie’s Look for his Album, 1. Outside, May 31, 2025
A Fantastic Bowie Voyage Continues: A Conversation with John and Jesse Malloy, May 24, 2025
Professor Alex Sharpe on Bowie, outlaws, monsters and love…, May 17, 2025
Eric Folino on Bowie and Making Music, May 10, 2025.
Simon Goddard takes us through Bowie’s Odyssey, May 3 2025
Glenn Hendler– the Man Who Wrote the Book on Diamond Dogs! April 26, 2025.
Curating Bowie: Video Artist Nacho Talks Sound and Vision, April 19, 2025.
Donny McCaslin– An exclusive interview with Bowie’s Blackstar bandleader! April 12, 2025.
Good News from Ava Cherry! April 11, 2025.
“To Be Quiet Does Not Mean That You Will Be Safe”: Masha Alyokhina’s Urgent Warning to America (Pussy Riot Co-Founder), April 6, 2025
“He Just Wanted It to Be Good”: Henry Hey Reflects on Bowie’s Late Career and More; March 29, 2024.
Paul Gorman Guides us Around Bowie’s London, March 22, 2025.
Because THEY’RE Young: Dr. Mindy Landeck Teaches Bowie in Texas, March 15, 2025.
Kev Gahan helps us find “Where’s Bowie,” March 8, 2025.
Charlie Fowler of David Live plays the part and makes it all worthwhile…, March 1, 2025
Gerry Leonard on making music with Bowie, the Dublin Bowie Festival and more, February 22, 2025.
Frank Housh, February 15, 2025. Media critic Housh returns to discuss Bowie’s appearance on Extras.
Mike Garson and Rupert Wainwright, February 14, 2025. Bowie’s legendary collaborator Mike Garson and film director Wainwright discuss the “Heroes: Ukraine” project.
Gretchen Shae schools us on David Bowie!, February 8, 2025. Musician and Berklee College of Music professor who teaches a Bowie class atthe prestigious school that gave Bowie an honorary degree.
Ingrid Goudswaard shows us that Bowie is Still Here…, February 1, 2025. Dutch photographer discusses her photo book, David Bowie: Still Here, which chronicles her journey to places of importance to Bowie.
Mark Wardel Strikes Gold in Depicting Bowie, January 25, 2025. Mark returns to the blog to discuss his approaches to depicting Bowie, using art to promote Glitterbox, and the artistic potential of Polaroids.
Author’s Roundtable: Lance Olsen and Jordan Rothacker discuss Rothacker’s new Bowie-inspired novel, January 18, 2025. Authors Lance and Jordan return to the blog to discuss Jordan’s newest Bowie-inspired science fiction detective novel.
Marc Lowe on His Tributes to Bowie, January 11, 2025. Marc discusses his Bowie tribute albums, Lost in the Minotaur’s Lair, and Some Kind of Future 2.0.
Julian Shah-Tayler, January 4, 2025. The musician and producer joins me to discuss Bowie, Aladdin Sane, the tribute album Forget that I’m 50 and his upcoming original album.
Arjan van Gent, December 27, 2024. Dutch artist who has painted Bowie and his musical collaborators.
Frank Housh, December 22, 2024. Art and music critic who writes the Media Room Substack.
Hannah Breschard, December 14, 2024. Music journalist and beloved figure in the Bowie universe, Hannah first became famous for her “space cadet” comment in Alan Yentob’s 1975 documentary Cracked Actor.
Nick Smart, December 7. 2024. The author discusses his bestselling book, David Bowie: the Collector.
Mark Plati, November 30, 2024. Yes, the Mark Plati. Bowie collaborator who co-produced, engineered, and programmed the Earthling album, served as musical director for Bowie’s tours from 1999 to 2001, and contributed to Bowie’s albums and projects through 2003.
Kevin Armstrong, November 23, 2024. Yes, the Kevin Armstrong. Distinguished guitarist who collaborated with Bowie on ‘Absolute Beginners,” 1. Outside, “Dancing in the Street” and Tin Machine and played with Bowie at Live Aid. Kevin has played with Iggy Pop, Morrissey, Sinead O’Connor, Thomas Dolby and just about everyone else!
Michael Dwyer, November 15, 2024. Dwyer is a member of the Australian tribute band, The Thin White Ukes and is a noted music journalist who intergvewe3d Bowie.
Mark Wardel, November 9, 20924. Noted artist whose subject is often Bowie.
Julian Shah-Tayler, November 2, 2024. Musician, AKA “The Singularity,” covered the entire Diamond Dogs album and, among other things, leads a Bowie tribute show.
Jordan Rothacker, October 19, 2024. Jordan returned on October 26. Author of Bowie-inspired SciFi novels.
Rob Fleming, October 22, 2024. Lead singer of KillerStar, a band featuring Bowie collaborators.
Ava Cherry, October 5, 2024. Yes, the Ava Cherry! Singer, model and collaborator of David Bowie and Luther Vandross. Part 2 of this interview ran on October 12.
Melissa “PK” Tonning-Kollwitz, September 21, 2024, with part 2 running September 28, 2004. Playwright and co-author of “Turn and Face the Strange”
Nick Smart, September 14, 2024. Founding co-editor of David Bowie Glamour Magazine.
David Currie, September 7, 2024. Author of The Grand Illusion of David Bowie and founder of Starzone magazine.
Lance Olsen, August 25, 2024. Author of Always Crashing in the Same Car: A book After David Bowie, and about 30 other books, too! The companion second interview with Lance posted on August 31, 2024.
Earl Slick, August 17, 2024. Yes, the Earl Slick! The legendary guitarist and long-time Bowie collaborated talks about his new memoir, Guitar, his recently-released remix of the “lost” Bowie song, “Isn’t It Evening,” and working with Bowie since ‘74!
Bill Childs, August 10, 2024. Nationally syndicated radio show host and co-producer of the Bowie tribute album, Let All the Children Boogie.
Con Chrisoulis, August 3, 2024, artist and creator of the Rebel Rebel; graphical biography of Bowie.
Sara Captain, July 27, 2024, artist who paints Bowie (video interview).
Marc Lowe, Part 1, July 20, 2024. Musician and educator. You can access Part 2 of the interview, posted on July 24, 2024, HERE. Marc came back for a brief discussion about the “Leon Sessions” on August 29, 2024. Part 2 of that discussion posted on September 12, 2024.
Enrique Seknadje, July 13, 2024. French author of The Ziggy Stardust Phenomenon, musician and educator.
Dave Pichiligni and Alan Horne, July 6, 2024. Organizers of the Bowie World Fan Convention.
Eugene Kibets, June 29, 2024. Ukrainian concert promoter who organized “Bowie Night” in Kyiv.
Melissa DeRosa, June 22, 2024. Political consultant and author of What’s Left Unsaid. We discuss how topics addressed by Bowie play out in politics and life.
Corrado Rizza, June 15, 2024. Co-author of the Italian book, Bowie at Woodstock.
Tony Zanetta, June 8, 2024. Actor and production manager who worked closely with David Bowie during the Ziggy Stardust era.
Sara Captain, June 1, 2024. Artist whose main subject is David Bowie.
Robert Burke Warren, May 28. Musician, author and guitar teacher discusses his upcoming Bowie show in Albany, NY (don’t worry— this is an evergreen interview).
Lisa Perrott, May 25. Professor of Screen and Media Studies at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and author of David Bowie and the Art of Music Video
Pete Farrugia, May 18. Guitar master, professional musician and teacher, who covered “Starman.”
W3st, May 11, 2024. British musician who covered “Starman.”
Rob Fleming, May 4, 2024. Lead singer and co-founder of the band, KillerStar, which features many Bowie alumni.
Chris O’Leary, April 27, 2024. Author of Rebel Rebel and Ashes to Ashes and writer of the Pushing Ahead of the Dame blog (which puts mine to shame). Originally posted in 2024, I reposted this interview on August 15, 2025 in anticipation of Chris’s return visit, this time in the form of a YouTube interview posted the following day.
Ben Monder, April 20, 2024. Bowie’s guitarist on Blackstar and renowned as a jazz musician.
Sean Egan, April 13, 2024. Journalist, author and editor of the book, Bowie on Bowie, a compilation of interviews with Bowie.
Anthony DeCurtis, April 6. University at Pennsylvania distinguished lecturer, contributing editor to Rolling Stone and author of multiple books about rock music.
Simon Critchley, March 30. Professor at the New School for Social Research, philosopher, moderator of the New York Times‘ “The Stone,” and author of many books, including Bowie.
Adam Steiner, March 23, 2024. British journalist and author of Silhouettes and Shadows: The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps).
Sébastien Bédé, March 16, 2024. French musician who has reinterpreted several of Bowie’s songs. Featuring his reinterpretation of “Space Oddity.”
Dr. Leah Kardos, March 9, 2024. Author of Blackstar Theory, music professor at Kingston University in London and collaborator with Tony Visconti.
EgoB, March 2, 2024. Roeland Verhaeren, known as EgoB, a Belgian electronic musician drawing inspiration from icons like Bowie. Featuring his cover of “Something in the Air.”
Joakim Schiller, February 24, 2024. Drummer of dB: The Bowie Experience, a Swedish Bowie cover band. Featuring the band’s cover of “Moonage Daydream.”
Mr. Hartgrave, February 17, 2024. American musician and YouTube content creator. Featuring his cover of “Life on Mars.”
Marc Lowe Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3, February 10-12, 2024. American living in Japan, musician and educator. Featuring, respectively, his original songs, “The Dial is in the Bathroom” and “We Miss You Spaceboy” and his cover of “All the Madmen.”
DoM, February 3, 2024. French mashup artist. Featuring his mashup titled, “A Forest for Lazarus,” which is a mashup of Bowie’s “Lazarus” and the Cure’s “A Forest.”