David Bowie, song by song
But, lo, as you would quaffoff his fraudstuff and sink teeth through that pyth of a flowerwhite bodey behold of him as behemoth for he is noewhemoe. Finiche! Only a fadograph of a yestern scene. James Joyce, Finnegans Wake. 1. The David Bowie Is exhibit opened in London in March 2013 and closed five years [ ]
Do They Know It’s Christmas? (Live Aid, 1985).Bowie’s 2013 Christmas “Elvis” Message.Peace on Earth/The Little Drummer Boy.Peter and the Wolf.The Snowman.Feed the World. Another year, another Christmas. And we re about to hit a big anniversary 10 years after Blackstar, 10 years without Bowie. As he once sang, time will crawl. But it also will run at [ ]
Presenting: The second edition of Rebel Rebel: The Songs of David Bowie, 1963-1976, which will go on sale on Tuesday, 8 July 2025, and which can be pre-ordered right now. This site gives you some options, from Bookshop to Barnes Noble, Powell s to Walmart (e-books are available for pre-order, too). Why a new edition? [ ]
It could have been Lulu in Memphis. David Bowie began working with Lulu in the summer of 1973, producing her takes on The Man Who Sold the World and Watch That Man, and now he envisioned making a full soul record with her. But his frustrations upon trying to get Mick Ronson and Trevor Bolder to [ ]
Do They Know It’s Christmas? (Live Aid, 1985).Bowie’s 2013 Christmas “Elvis” Message.Peace on Earth/The Little Drummer Boy.Peter and the Wolf.The Snowman.Feed the World. The 15th Christmas for this blog time keeps at it. I hope that you ve had a good year, or at least a middling one. Not much news to report, apart from Rebel Rebel [ ]
Announcing: Rebel Rebel (Revised). Or maybe Rebel Rebel Again? Rebel Rebel (Second Edition). Rebel Rebel in some form. Coming, via Repeater Books, in summer 2025. I m about to send in the manuscript. This is a fully revised and corrected (yes, no longer does Britain win the 1966 World Cup, sorry) version of the book that [ ]
I was never quite sure of what real position Terry had in my life, whether Terry was a real person or whether I was actually referring to another part of me. Bowie, on his half-brother, Terry Burns. The world was asleep to our latent fuss. 1. Take two (master), recorded ca. 9-15 August 1971, Trident [ ]
Fifteen years ago today, I published the first entry on a WordPress blog that I d set up a few days earlier. It was a six-paragraph essay on David Bowie s first single, Liza Jane. My insightful assessment: There’ve been greater debuts, but there’ve been far more worse. Not auspicious. But that was the idea: do some quick [ ]
Do They Know It’s Christmas? (Live Aid, 1985).Bowie’s 2013 Christmas “Elvis” Message.Peace on Earth/The Little Drummer Boy.Peter and the Wolf.The Snowman.Feed the World. Has it been another year? Somehow, it happened. A very quiet year on the Bowie front (will there at last be a Ziggy Stardust-Aladdin Sane archival box set in 2024? ah, who [ ]
Thirty years ago today, David Bowie released the soundtrack of The Buddha of Suburbia, a four-part serial which was, at the time, being aired on Wednesday nights on BBC2. More accurately, this record was billed as the soundtrack, complete with a cover photo of a seemingly crucified Naveen Andrews, with Bowie s name given as much [ ]