In this interview, I welcome back Nick Smart, co-editor of the David Bowie Glamour fanzine and author of David Bowie: The Collector, to discuss the long-awaited 12th issue of David Bowie Glamour. Nick explains that the fanzine combines interviews and…
Arsalan Mohammad is a journalist, writer, and podcast producer whose David Bowie: Albumtoalbum podcast offers an in-depth examination of Bowie’s discography, discussing each album on its own terms through conversations with musicians, critics, writers, artists, and, at times, Bowie collaborators…
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…
This is another in my series of reactions to Daniel Rachel’s excellent book, This Ain’t Rock ‘N’ Roll: Pop Music, The Swastika and the Third Reich. Bowie’s inclusion in the book revolves around a series of seemingly pro-fascist statements he…
David Bowie made a series of seemingly pro-fascist statements in the mid-1970s during and around his Thin White Duke phase. He described the character itself as “a very Aryan, fascist type.” He claimed to “believe very strongly in fascism” and…
I recently came across a reference to this song, pulled it up on YouTube, and found myself wondering—how do I even know it? That seems like an odd question for a guy who writes about David Bowie on a daily…
Yesterday I interviewed Carl Ewens, author of the On Track book on Bowie’s albums and songs from 1964-1982 (watch for that interview in coming weeks). Carl mentioned a song about Bowie that I didn’t know— Adrian Belew’s “Animal Grace” (1982)…
I don’t know what it is with me, but I like to rank things and put things in lists that usually exist only in my head. When I turned six years old I followed my practice of the previous two…