Welcome to my weekly roundup of Bowie news! Actually, there was little genuine news this week, but there were plenty of the other types of stories that make it to this feature. Be sure to check out this week in…
Daniel Rachel returned to my show for a second discussion of his book, This Ain’t Rock ’n’ Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika and the Third Reich. Whereas our first conversation focused largely on David Bowie’s role within the book, this…
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 started drafting this post a few weeks ago following my reading of Daniel Rachel’s book, This Ain’t Rock ‘N’ Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika and the Third Reich, and also because I had recently watched three movies and a…
Marc Lowe has produced what he believes to be the only multimedia solo performance built around Bowie’s 1. Outside project and the related material from its predecessor, the unreleased (but easily found on the internet), Leon Sessions (aka Leon Suites)…
Welcome to my weekly roundup of Bowie news! Read on for summaries of Bowie-related stories that posted this past week, and click on the bolded story names to link to the original articles… — NEWS Kingston University Announces “Late Bowie:…
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…
I’ve been writing this series of posts about Bowie’s lyrics and fascism after reading Daniel Rachel’s excellent book, This Ain’t Rock ‘N’ Roll: Pop Music, The Swastika and the Third Reich, and then interviewing Rachel. At last, tomorrow I will…
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…
It is tempting to try to speculate as to what David Bowie meant by his lyrics. Despite writing about Bowie on a daily basis, I don’t pretend to understand what he was actually thinking. Surely there is overlap between the…