# bowie (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover bowie. Page: Feed: --- ## [Night Beat Post 174 – The Clash Part IV: “THE CLASH NOT FOR SALE”](https://mikalggilmore.substack.com/p/night-beat-post-174-the-clash-part) _2026-08-20 · Mikal Gilmore · Night Beat_ WITH BERNARD RHODES GONE, things proved better for a time. ## [Night Beat Post 173 – The Clash Part III: “This is a place where no judge can stand”](https://mikalggilmore.substack.com/p/night-beat-post-173-the-clash-part) _2026-08-19 · Mikal Gilmore · Night Beat_ I want to thank all those who have recently become subscribers to Night Beat. I also want to thank Elaine for encouraging readers to take that step. After I get settled into my new abode here in Fort Worth—furnishing the place, deciding what records and books to bring in from Elaine’s home—I will be embarking on a new personal narrative line: ## [When Iggy met Ziggy](https://krisoverthetopneeds.substack.com/p/when-iggy-met-ziggy) _2026-08-18 · Kris Needs · Kris’s Substack_ Close encounters between Bowie and Iggy Pop; from Vive le Rock 2025 and too big for the memoir. Freebie to celebrate passing 1000 free subscribers. Wahoo! ## [Night Beat – Breaking News](https://mikalggilmore.substack.com/p/night-beat-breaking-news) _2026-08-18 · Mikal Gilmore · Night Beat_ Hi, it’s me, Elaine. ## [Night Beat Post 172 - The Clash Part II: Year Zero](https://mikalggilmore.substack.com/p/night-beat-post-172-the-clash-part) _2026-08-18 · Mikal Gilmore · Night Beat_ Clash article 2 ## [Night Beat Post 171 – The Clash Part I: Guttersnipes](https://mikalggilmore.substack.com/p/night-beat-post-171-the-clash-part) _2026-08-17 · Mikal Gilmore · Night Beat_ THE MOMENT THAT BEST EXEMPLIFIED the Clash didn’t come in England, where they helped tear rock & roll history in half. ## [Night Beat Post 170 - Bob Marley Part V: Redemption Song](https://mikalggilmore.substack.com/p/night-beat-post-170-bob-marley-part) _2026-08-14 · Mikal Gilmore · Night Beat_ BOB MARLEY DIED IN MIAMI, FLORIDA, on May 11, 1981. ## [BRIGITTE FONTAINE: Es...Folle](https://krisoverthetopneeds.substack.com/p/brigitte-fontaine-esfolle) _2026-08-14 · Kris Needs · Kris’s Substack_ The story of the pioneering French avant-chanteuse and original punk polymath leading up to landmark 1968 album Es...Folle (plus her subsequent seven decade artistic odyssey). The world should know. ## [Night Beat Post 169 - Bob Marley Part IV: A Force to Contend With](https://mikalggilmore.substack.com/p/night-beat-post-169-bob-marley-part) _2026-08-13 · Mikal Gilmore · Night Beat_ THE WAILERS’ CATCH A FIRE WAS A LANDMARK: It was the first wholly formed, cohesive reggae album, and it immediately cast Marley into the artistic big leagues for many critics. ## [Night Beat Post 168 - Bob Marley Part III: “The attitude they gave off was like real rebels”](https://mikalggilmore.substack.com/p/night-beat-post-168-bob-marley-part) _2026-08-12 · Mikal Gilmore · Night Beat_ The name of the living God who came to Jamaica was Haile Selassie, the Emperor of Ethiopia, and the product of yet another complicated strand of history that marked the lives of Marley and Jamaica. ## [Reach prospects with real signals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/bIY3pFJiUP9P) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Find prospects talking about your problem and get context-backed moments to engage ## [BILLY IDOL: From Gen X To US MTV superstar](https://krisoverthetopneeds.substack.com/p/billy-idol-from-gen-x-to-us-mtv-superstar) _2026-08-11 · Kris Needs · Kris’s Substack_ Writing about punk's 50th a lot inevitably brought up Generation X and my ten years interviewing Billy Idol; always good fun! In May '24, I wrote this somewhat huge account in Vive le Rock ## [Night Beat Post 167 - Bob Marley Part II: Trenchtown](https://mikalggilmore.substack.com/p/night-beat-post-167-bob-marley-part) _2026-08-11 · Mikal Gilmore · Night Beat_ Bob Marley’s mother, Cedella, was worried that her son had grown too comfortable with ghetto life and was too close to the Rude Boys. ## [Night Beat Post 166 - Bob Marley Part I: Kingston](https://mikalggilmore.substack.com/p/night-beat-post-166-bob-marley-part) _2026-08-10 · Mikal Gilmore · Night Beat_ It had been a while since I’d written for Rolling Stone when an editor called me in 2005 and asked if I’d be willing to look at Bob Marley for a commemoration of his 60th birthday. ## [Night Beat Post 165 - Sinéad O'Connor Part VI: "Everywhere is war"](https://mikalggilmore.substack.com/p/night-beat-post-163-sinead-oconnor) _2026-08-08 · Mikal Gilmore · Night Beat_ Nothing Compares to You is the story—in documentary form—of Sinead O’Connor, and it covers in part the abuse she experienced when she was quite young in her native Ireland at the hands of her mother and parochial Catholicism. ## [KATE BUSH: Fire In The Bush](https://krisoverthetopneeds.substack.com/p/kate-bush-fire-in-the-bush-ed5) _2026-08-06 · Kris Needs · Kris’s Substack_ Lobbing a controversial grenade in Zigzag in 1980, I stuck Kate on the cover after she was assured I wasn't going to stitch her up (happened a lot in the music press then). 2 more epics would follow ## [SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES: 20 Minutes to 20 Years](https://krisoverthetopneeds.substack.com/p/siouxsie-and-the-banshees-20-minutes) _2026-08-01 · Kris Needs · Kris’s Substack_ 50 years ago, bands formed who transcended punk to change music their own way, the Banshees a good example. I wrote this history in 2007 for Record Collector when punk had just marked its 30th. ## [Interview Archive: Brian Eno opens up](https://krisoverthetopneeds.substack.com/p/interview-archive-brian-eno-opens) _2026-08-01 · Kris Needs · Kris’s Substack_ In late 1977, Sniffin' Glue/NME scribe Danny Baker and I interviewed Eno for his 'Before and After Science' LP. Despite that and his involvement with Bowie he was not a happy bunny (Zigzag Jan '78). ## [ARTHUR RUSSELL: 'Don't forget about me'; NYC's great overlooked genius](https://krisoverthetopneeds.substack.com/p/arthur-russell-dont-forget-about) _2026-07-28 · Kris Needs · Kris’s Substack_ Prompted by the best archival album I've heard all year from Arthur's old sidekick Steven Hall, the original draft of my Russell epic that appeared in MOJO in 2010 ## [Happy Birthday, George Clinton, 85 today!](https://krisoverthetopneeds.substack.com/p/happy-birthday-george-clinton-85) _2026-07-22 · Kris Needs · Kris’s Substack_ To mark the occasion, here's the story of the Mothership and rise of P-Funk. A lifelong fan, in 2014 I wrote the Godfather of P-Funk's book, George Clinton & The Cosmic Odyssey of the P-Funk Empire. ## [Reviews Archive: Unearthed from Shindig! 2011](https://krisoverthetopneeds.substack.com/p/archive-shindig-2011) _2026-07-21 · Kris Needs · Kris’s Substack_ Unearthed! Definitive Byrds & Stones tomes, Bowie movie, Michael Chapman, Stone Coal White. Done for the love not the money as there wasn't any! ## [Refer a Friend, Earn Rewards (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/4WdZVpN79eH5) _2026-07-21 · **Sponsored**_ Earn rewards when a friend signs up for the Graphite Business Card ## [DAVID BOWIE: Wham Bam Thank You, Ma'am](https://krisoverthetopneeds.substack.com/p/david-bowie-wham-bam-thank-you-maam) _2026-07-15 · Kris Needs · Kris’s Substack_ 54 years ago today, Bowie brought Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars back to the Aylesbury hall where he unveiled his breakthrough persona that January. To mark the occasion, here's what happened. ## [Pi Scanner: the shell script that turned into a web app](https://zedstarr.com/2026/07/14/8571/) _2026-07-14 · zedstarr · Room 7609_ Discover what's a Raspberry Pi and what's not with the Pi Scanner Web App ## [PDA-ing like it’s 1999 – back into EPOC32 with the Ericsson MC218](https://zedstarr.com/2026/03/25/pda-ing-like-its-1999-back-into-epoc32-with-the-ericsson-mc218/) _2026-03-25 · zedstarr · Room 7609_ Travel back in time to when the Psion Series 5mx (& this re-badged Ericsson model) were the pinnacle of PDA power. 32-bit ARM powered, running for 20+ hours on AA batteries with absolutely beautiful, intuitive OS and included apps... here I get the machine connected via some hacked-up serial leads and struggle with CF compatibility ## [“Blitz: the club that shaped the 80s” at the Design Museum](https://zedstarr.com/2026/03/18/blitz-the-club-that-shaped-the-80s-at-the-design-museum/) _2026-03-18 · zedstarr · Room 7609_ I’ve previously talked about why I think 1981 was a pivotal year for UK pop music – and a huge part of that is down to what happened during the two years previous, in a tiny World War 2-themed basement club in Covent Garden, London known as “The Blitz”. An evolution of the Bowie themed Continue reading "“Blitz: the club that shaped the 80s” at the Design Museum" ## [QR codes on a 1989 laptop](https://zedstarr.com/2026/02/19/qr-codes-on-a-1989-laptop/) _2026-02-19 · zedstarr · Room 7609_ Getting my Psion MC400 laptop running its EPOC OS from 1992 to display QR-codes that link to screenshots auto-converted and auto-cloud-synced by the attached Pi... ;-) phew! ## [Blackstar (★)](https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/blackstar-%e2%98%85/) _2026-01-08 · col1234 · Pushing Ahead of the Dame_ 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 \[ \] ## [SharPiKeebo – cute little handheld “computer”](https://zedstarr.com/2026/01/06/sharpikeebo-cute-little-handheld-computer/) _2026-01-06 · zedstarr · Room 7609_ Crowd-funded projects promise much but often are hit and miss... this cute Linux handheld looks good, but struggles to deliver with unfinished hardware and out-of-date software drivers... ## [And Then, It Was Xmas Again](https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/and-then-it-was-xmas-again/) _2025-12-22 · col1234 · Pushing Ahead of the Dame_ 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 \[ \] ## [Battery power & the “Tandy Battery Club”](https://zedstarr.com/2025/09/04/battery-power/) _2025-09-04 · zedstarr · Room 7609_ Remembering Tandy's loss-leading "battery club" from the 1980s - giving away 1 free battery every month to get people in the store ## [Yanko Design tiny Bluetooth speaker inside a cassette case](https://zedstarr.com/2025/06/19/yanko-design-tiny-bluetooth-speaker-inside-a-cassette-case/) _2025-06-19 · zedstarr · Room 7609_ A tiny Bluetooth speaker built into a compact-cassette housing. Super cute, super retro. ## [Point once, get highlights (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/wNRXBUvehFs7) _2025-06-19 · **Sponsored**_ Get minutes worth watching from a whole game — point once ## [Rebel Rebel: A New Version](https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2025/06/04/rebel-rebel-a-new-version/) _2025-06-04 · col1234 · Pushing Ahead of the Dame_ 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? \[ \] ## [Do You Remember Yesterday? Young Americans at 50](https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2025/03/07/do-you-remember-yesterday-young-americans-at-50/) _2025-03-07 · col1234 · Pushing Ahead of the Dame_ 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 \[ \] ## [Psion Series 5 USB keyboard](https://zedstarr.com/2025/02/25/psion-series-5-usb-keyboard/) _2025-02-25 · zedstarr · Room 7609_ My take on the old "re-purposing a dead Psion 5's keyboard as USB keyboard" ;-) Using parts from dead Psion Series 5 and 5mx PDAs and an Arduino micro-controller. ## [A box of “Psion Organisers”](https://zedstarr.com/2025/02/21/a-box-of-psion-organisers/) _2025-02-21 · zedstarr · Room 7609_ Aquiring some late 1990s PDA keyboards to revive with USB and Bluetooth connections... The Psion Series 5 (like all the Psion PDAs!) was renowned for its excellent mechanical design and the keyboard of the Series 5 was peak! ## [Clockwork uConsole – a ready made CyberDeck?](https://zedstarr.com/2025/01/27/clockwork-uconsole-a-ready-made-cyberdeck/) _2025-01-27 · zedstarr · Room 7609_ My experiences when my Clockworkpi.com uConsole arrived earlier this month - assembling the ready-made cyberdeck and some tweaks & challenges to work around some shortcomings... ## [PSION MC400 emulated – at last!](https://zedstarr.com/2024/12/31/psion-mc400-emulated/) _2024-12-31 · zedstarr · Room 7609_ A few years after initially posing the question, an answer.... YES, the MC400 is emulated (in MAME 0.273 and later). ## [It’s Xmas Time, It’s Xmas Time](https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2024/12/21/its-xmas-time-its-xmas-time/) _2024-12-21 · col1234 · Pushing Ahead of the Dame_ 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 \[ \] ## [Rebel Rebel (Revised)](https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2024/12/11/rebel-rebel-revised/) _2024-12-11 · col1234 · Pushing Ahead of the Dame_ 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 \[ \] ## [Is it Regs?](https://zedstarr.com/2024/11/25/is-it-regs/) _2024-11-25 · zedstarr · Room 7609_ Asking the question: does it meet BS 7671 - the 18th Edition IET Wiring Regulations? ## [Seven Bewlay Brothers](https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2024/09/12/seven-bewlay-brothers/) _2024-09-12 · col1234 · Pushing Ahead of the Dame_ 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 \[ \]