Following up on yesterday’s post about Meta’s use of “Five Years” in a (possibly) unintentionally chilling ad about AI and the future, I thought I’d rank Bowie’s top 10 songs about the apocalypse… 1. “Five Years” (1972) Yeah, had to…
Bowie’s song predicting the end of the world, “Five Years” (1972) from Ziggy Stardust, unexpectedly made news when Meta, the company that makes Facebook, Instagram, eyeglasses connected to the internet and other insidious mechanisms that have helped degrade how human…
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 Masayoshi Sukita to receive Lifetime…
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 Bowie band to stage Loch…
Khadhu Capanema is a Brazilian singer whose YouTube channel explains that he plays original songs as well as covers from the 60s and 70s with “heart and soul.” And that’s what stands out to me on this cover of “Five…
I had a tough time choosing a single “cover of the week” this time and contemplated featuring several, but in the end I’m pulling the trigger on this lovely cover of one of the songs from the Labyrinth soundtrack. Oddly,…
Movie: Night of the Living Dead (1990) Bowie Connection: This movie really has very little to do with David Bowie. Nothing, actually. But there are some thematic connections. I’m not giving anything away to say that the movie is set…
I wasn’t sure that I was going to write anything about my 2020 experience on my Bowie blog. However, it occurred to me that the music of Bowie helped me get through that year, and my decision to turn blogging…