Saw her twice in this period. I made chums with Tina’s back up singer from Georgia whom I met in London 1986 (via his girlfriend who’d I met at Chemical Bank in the Strand) and who’d come over with the I+TB supporting the Stones in ’69. (He introduced me to James Brown). I saw Tina front…
See The Guardian. Plus photographer Chris Duffy’s book Aladdin Sane 50. ‘Camille Paglia, a US feminist academic, described the picture as “one of the most emblematic and influential art images of the past half-century, reproduced or parodied in advertising, media and entertainment worldwide”’. Ken Scott the producer will be in conversation with Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy at Classic…
His passing announced today. The Guardian/Pitchfork/NYT cinemaDavid BowieDAVID BYRNEJapanmerry christmas mr lawrenceRyuichi Sakamoto
Dylan is 80. bob dylanDavid Bowiemusic
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare; I had to cram so many things to store everything in there. David Bowieziggy stardust
The marketing catchphrase used by RCA forty years ago, “Often Copied, Never Equalled” has much truth to it. Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) marked the culmination and close of the most sustained attempt to inject high artistry and radical individualism into popular music, while still maintaining the dirtiest of 70s funk riffs. Robert Fripp’s guitar…
The zeitgeist. 1984big brotherDavid Bowieorwell
Of the obits I’ve come across this one seems the best. David Bowiemusicphil maypretty things
Florian Schneider dead. David Bowieelectronic musicFlorian Schneidergerman musickraftwerk
March 7th makes the 45th anniversary of the release of Young Americans. While released midway into Bowie’s creative purple patch, for me at least, it doesn’t rank as a first-order Bowie album. Back in the day it was of course a massive surprise and a pleasant one at that, the direction already telegraphed in Diamond…
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