The 2021 Width of a Circle archival collection is for completists only Starting in 2019, Parlophone Records began releasing a series of archival sets exploring the creation of successive David Bowie albums, beginning with Conversation Piece, which chronicled the period…
Laura Crutch is a French singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Lyon. My “cover of the week” selection is her recently posted “Lazarus,” made in collaboration with Italian musician and producer Luca Ascari, who records as The X. Crutch’s description credits…
Saturday Night Live turned 50 last year (2025). That was enough of an achievement for about a year’s worth of retrospectives, both from SNL itself and more outside critics and cultural commentators than I even bothered trying to identify. One…
Emm Gryner is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and author whose career includes work with David Bowie. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, she performed as a member of Bowie’s touring band and contributed vocals to his studio work. One…
2026 is the 50th anniversary year for The Man Who Fell to Earth, the first movie in which David Bowie starred. If “David Bowie” is a kind of meta-character, the crafted fictional alter ego of the artist David Jones, then…
Although I have been writing my comments about listening to Bowie’s albums in order in batches of four albums at a time, that wasn’t by design. The experience itself is far more continuous. By the time I got to Young…
While I have listened to every Bowie album many times, this is the second of a series of blog posts about my immediate reaction to listening to them in order. —- While there are connecting threads between Bowie’s first four…
Welcome to my weekly roundup of Bowie news! The Bowie-related story that got the most coverage this week had to do with the sale at auction of the cover art for Aladdin Sane. But there was, as always, much more…
Singer-songwriter Emm Gryner made a surprise appearance on my YouTube channel earlier today to make an announcment about a cool new Bowie-related project she's going to launch on her Patreaon this ucoming Tuesday, November 4th at Noon (EST). Emm toured…
I almost didn’t post an Ozzy Osbourne remembrance. This is a Bowie blog and Ozzy never collaborated with David Bowie (though he did cover “All the Young Dudes,” which is embedded in this post). Also, while I have long had…