You’ve seen The Odyssey, now get ready for Bowie’s Odyssey! I originally posted this last year when Simon Goddard joined me on my interview show to discuss his Bowie Odyssey series. At the time, we mostly discussed ‘74 because ‘75…
This interview is something of an experiment: a combination of video and written conversation. In the video above, you can hear directly from Dutch artist, writer and illustrator Hans Meertens as he introduces his new book, Constellation “Heroes.” Below, you…
In this interview, I speak with Tom Hagler, a reporter and presenter for the BBC World Service and the author of We Could Be... Bowie and His Heroes and Bowie at the BBC. We discuss the BBC’s distinctive place in…
In this interview, I speak with author, journalist, and essayist Adam Steiner about CHANGESTWOBOWIE, the 1981 compilation album that followed the highly successful CHANGESONEBOWIE. Adam is the author of Silhouettes and Shadows: The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters…
Tomorrow on my YouTube show, I speak with John Cameron Mitchell, the Tony Award-winning creator and star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, about Bowie’s enduring influence on his life and work, as well as his upcoming Bowie-themed stage performances…
What is it that Bowie is drawing on the back of Station to Station? Why, it’s the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, of course! And if you don’t know what that means, or what “one magical movement from Kether to Malkuth”…
My interview tomorrow will feature Dr. Nicholas Greco, Provost and Professor of Communications and Media at Providence University College in Otterburne, Manitoba, who joined me to discuss his 2015 book, David Bowie in Darkness: A Study of 1. Outside and…
Simon Critchley is a philosopher, professor and author of many books including Bowie and Mysticism (some editions appear as On Bowie and On Mysticism). Simon was the very first guest on my YouTube show, and some of what he has…
I’ve been on a roll in recent months of reading some great and compelling books either about David Bowie or related to him in some way. I’m reluctant to say which one has been the best, in part because they…
David Bowie seems to have had a go-to excuse when he didn’t want to explain himself: the drugs made me do it! Not everyone who studied or knew him buys it. It occurred to me that Bowie might have gone…