Fans of the genius that is David Bowie can catch two programmes that will be showing on BBC Four.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01k0y0n
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01k0y0q
While I am writing this I am saddened that to learn that Justin Tumberlunk's new album has pushed David Bowie off the top slot, a sad reflection, I am afraid of the state of the music industry.
Showing posts with label David Bowie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Bowie. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
TRIVIA : DAVID BOWIE
David Bowie's peculiar mismatched eyes are the result of his hitting his head on the ground during a schoolyard fight over a girl.
David Bowie was born David Robert Jones on January 8, 1947 (22:59hrs 0.5W (Sun in Capricorn) if you wish to be exact), he changed it to David Bowie in 1966.
David Bowie's famous 'Major Tom' silver suit which he wore in the 'Love You Till Tuesday' film was purchased from Dandie Fashions in the Kings Road, Chelsea, London
David appears, albeit uncredited, on The Rolling Stones album 'It's Only Rock 'N' Roll'
David appears in the lyrics to the BBC series 'Only Fools and Horses', the lyrics are :
"We've got some half price cracked ice and miles and miles of carpet tiles
T.V.s, deep freeze and David Bowie LP's
Ball games, gold chains, whatsnames, pictures frames and leather goods
And Trevor Francis tracksuits from a mush in Shepherds Bush
Bush, bush, bush, bush, bush, bush, bush...
No income tax, no V.A.T.
No money back, no guarantee
Black or white, rich or poor
We'll cut prices at a stroke...
God bless Hooky Street
Viva Hooky Street
Long live Hooky Street
C'est magnifique, Hooky Street
Magnifique, Hooky Street
Hooky Street (fade)"
The middle section of 'Move On' on the Lodger album is 'All The Young Dudes' played backwards.
There were two versions of 'The Buddha Of Suburbia' promo video shot in St. Matthews Drive, Bromley, one featuring David 'smoking' and the other 'not smoking'
The credits on the Low album include 'backing vocals by Peter and Paul' who are in fact Brian Eno and Mary Hopkin.
The photograph taken for the cover of the album Pin Ups featuring Twiggy (real name Leslie Hornby) and David was originally intended to be for the front cover of fashion magazine Vogue. When they sent photographer Justin De Villeneuve (real name Nigel Davies) to photograph Ziggy and Twiggy she was tanned and David was his then usual pallid self, so the make-up artist gave them both masks. David liked the photograph and asked to use it for his next album instead. Told that Vogue would sell 80,000 copies and the album about a million, De Villeneuve sensibly agreed.
The photograph that appears on the front cover of Iggy Pop's 'The Idiot' album was taken by David himself. The pose was inspired from the Erich Heckel painting entitled 'Roquairol'.
Scratched messages on vinyl albums and singles by Tony Visconti :
SCRATCHED MESSAGES ON VINYL ALBUMS:
Scary Monsters And Super Creeps: I can't think.... of anything.... Lodger: No sense is better.... than none at all. "Heroes": Dave's RCA. Stage: (Side 1) Zig. (Side 2) Stame. (Side 3) Loroes. (Side 4) Helows.
SCRATCHED MESSAGES ON VINYL SINGLES:
Boys Keep Swinging: Your Bicameral Mind.... Mind Your Bicameral. Fashion: So There! Alabama Song: Ta Kurt. Space Oddity (acoustic version): Sorry Gus. John, I'm Only Dancing (Again): At last. John, I'm Only Danciing.
David Bowie was born David Robert Jones on January 8, 1947 (22:59hrs 0.5W (Sun in Capricorn) if you wish to be exact), he changed it to David Bowie in 1966.
David Bowie's famous 'Major Tom' silver suit which he wore in the 'Love You Till Tuesday' film was purchased from Dandie Fashions in the Kings Road, Chelsea, London
David appears, albeit uncredited, on The Rolling Stones album 'It's Only Rock 'N' Roll'
David appears in the lyrics to the BBC series 'Only Fools and Horses', the lyrics are :
"We've got some half price cracked ice and miles and miles of carpet tiles
T.V.s, deep freeze and David Bowie LP's
Ball games, gold chains, whatsnames, pictures frames and leather goods
And Trevor Francis tracksuits from a mush in Shepherds Bush
Bush, bush, bush, bush, bush, bush, bush...
No income tax, no V.A.T.
No money back, no guarantee
Black or white, rich or poor
We'll cut prices at a stroke...
God bless Hooky Street
Viva Hooky Street
Long live Hooky Street
C'est magnifique, Hooky Street
Magnifique, Hooky Street
Hooky Street (fade)"
The middle section of 'Move On' on the Lodger album is 'All The Young Dudes' played backwards.
There were two versions of 'The Buddha Of Suburbia' promo video shot in St. Matthews Drive, Bromley, one featuring David 'smoking' and the other 'not smoking'
The credits on the Low album include 'backing vocals by Peter and Paul' who are in fact Brian Eno and Mary Hopkin.
The photograph taken for the cover of the album Pin Ups featuring Twiggy (real name Leslie Hornby) and David was originally intended to be for the front cover of fashion magazine Vogue. When they sent photographer Justin De Villeneuve (real name Nigel Davies) to photograph Ziggy and Twiggy she was tanned and David was his then usual pallid self, so the make-up artist gave them both masks. David liked the photograph and asked to use it for his next album instead. Told that Vogue would sell 80,000 copies and the album about a million, De Villeneuve sensibly agreed.
The photograph that appears on the front cover of Iggy Pop's 'The Idiot' album was taken by David himself. The pose was inspired from the Erich Heckel painting entitled 'Roquairol'.
Scratched messages on vinyl albums and singles by Tony Visconti :
SCRATCHED MESSAGES ON VINYL ALBUMS:
Scary Monsters And Super Creeps: I can't think.... of anything.... Lodger: No sense is better.... than none at all. "Heroes": Dave's RCA. Stage: (Side 1) Zig. (Side 2) Stame. (Side 3) Loroes. (Side 4) Helows.
SCRATCHED MESSAGES ON VINYL SINGLES:
Boys Keep Swinging: Your Bicameral Mind.... Mind Your Bicameral. Fashion: So There! Alabama Song: Ta Kurt. Space Oddity (acoustic version): Sorry Gus. John, I'm Only Dancing (Again): At last. John, I'm Only Danciing.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
NEWS: DB RUMOURS
Rumours, rumours and more rumours.
You can't have missed the story that had been doing the rounds that David Bowie was set to resurrect his Ziggy Stardust alter-ego and that he has been in talks with organisers of California’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts festival, who wanted him to perform his classic album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars in its entirety.
Most I'm sure would have seen the stories for what they were, pure fantasy.
The 62-year-old singer famously killed off his alter ego on stage in London in 1973, a year after the album’s original release.
Bowie has been in semi-retirement since his heart scare in 2004, which led to him cancelling his World Tour, however another rumour that crept up was that he may well be working on new material in Berlin, Germany, a comment was left under his name on the social networking site Twitter, a user named David Bowie wrote "Cheers from a snowy Berlin! Working on some new material.", there is one problem with this though, according to the official David Bowie site, David does not have a Twitter account, that and the fact that anyone could open an account using the name "David Bowie".
Bowie's last studio album was "Reality" that was released in 2003, however he did provide backing vocals on Scarlett Johansson’s album "Anywhere I lay My Head".
What will be the next big rumour, that "The Smiths" will reunite, oops sorry that one has already been rolled out more than a few times.
The news story on davidbowie.com is here
You can't have missed the story that had been doing the rounds that David Bowie was set to resurrect his Ziggy Stardust alter-ego and that he has been in talks with organisers of California’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts festival, who wanted him to perform his classic album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars in its entirety.
Most I'm sure would have seen the stories for what they were, pure fantasy.
The 62-year-old singer famously killed off his alter ego on stage in London in 1973, a year after the album’s original release.
Bowie has been in semi-retirement since his heart scare in 2004, which led to him cancelling his World Tour, however another rumour that crept up was that he may well be working on new material in Berlin, Germany, a comment was left under his name on the social networking site Twitter, a user named David Bowie wrote "Cheers from a snowy Berlin! Working on some new material.", there is one problem with this though, according to the official David Bowie site, David does not have a Twitter account, that and the fact that anyone could open an account using the name "David Bowie".
Bowie's last studio album was "Reality" that was released in 2003, however he did provide backing vocals on Scarlett Johansson’s album "Anywhere I lay My Head".
What will be the next big rumour, that "The Smiths" will reunite, oops sorry that one has already been rolled out more than a few times.
The news story on davidbowie.com is here
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