In this interview, I speak with Dr. Nicholas Greco, Provost and Professor of Communications and Media at Providence University College and author of David Bowie in Darkness: A Study of 1. Outside and the Late Career, about his interpretation of…
Simon Critchley was the very first guest to appear on my YouTube show. Simon is a philosopher, professor and author of many books on many topics including David Bowie. I’m reposting that first interview again today by way of preview…
Adam Steiner, author of Silhouettes and Shadows: The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), was one of my first interview guests back in 2024. That was just before I launched my YouTube show, so Adam was…
Around 22 years ago I was sitting in a coffee shop in Buffalo, New York (Spot Coffee on Delaware and Chippewa— it’s still there, you should go), and heard a Bowie cover over the house sound system. It was a…
My interview tomorrow is with Don Klees, author of On Track: David Bowie, 1983–2016. Don had been on the show last year, and while his book covered pretty much the entirety of the second half of Bowie’s career, I felt…
George Orwell’s 1984 was a highly influential book on David Bowie. Diamond Dogs emerged out of a project that began as an attempt to write a 1984 musical. He telegraphed his intentions in a 1973 television musical special called The…
David Bowie achieved one of his lifelong ambitions of launching a musical during the final days of his life in 2015. That production, Lazarus, debuted at the New York Theatre Workshop in Manhattan ten years ago this week. Of a…
David Bowie showed an interest in creating a musical for most of his career. The history of his pursuit of this goal dates back at least to the abandoned 1968 rock-opera project Ernie Johnson, which I know very little about,…
I have had some great interview guests over the past several weeks (really, I have had great interview guests since I launched the feature two years ago). Tomorrow is something that I think might be unique. After reading a book…
Tomorrow, Carlos Alomar will return to my YouTube show for the second part of our interview. Carlos played on more Bowie albums than anyone else, and he was present for the constant transformations Bowie made across his career. Carlos has…