“David Bowie Is,” the extensive retrospective exhibit of the artist and his fabulous costumes, hit Toronto last Friday (seeour post from earlier today), and as many people have reported, in addition to those costumes—and ph...
Various Artists: 'The Freddie Mercury Tribute' - (Queen, David Bowie, Annie Lennox: 'Under Pressure' / Queen, David Bowie, Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson: 'All The Young Dudes' / Queen, David Bowie: "Heroes").Various Artists: 'Long Live Tibet' - (Gail Ann Dorsey and David Bowie: 'Planet ...
There he (David Bowie) was, then, primed and ready. The proper books and doodads were arranged on a big old-fashioned lectern. The incantation began, and although I had no idea what was being said or what language it was being said in, I couldn’t stop a weird cold feeling rising up...
David Bowie’s Top 100 BooksColin Marshall hosts and produces Notebook on Cities and Culture and writes essays on cities, language, Asia, and men’s style. He’s at work on a book about Los Angeles, A Los Angeles Primer. Fol...
From “Space Oddity” through “Blackstar,” David Bowie was pop music’s ambassador to the realms of science fiction and fantasy. Jason Heller explains how the shapeshifting Starman was inspired by the dark sci-fi experiments of the space age.
He is also in the frame for a £100,000 commission from the Scottish National Portrait Gallery to paint Donald Dewar and other members of the cabinet. Howson has agreed with David Bowie that there will be no pre-publicity of the portrait before its unveiling. But Howson's Scottish agent ...
(Carlos Alomar and Earl Slick, guitars; George Murray, bass and Dennis Davis, drums) through the songs. It is a complete evolution from the David Bowie of six months before. But then, of course, anything less than a total personality upheaval would be entirely out of character for him. ...
She asked me to stay and I stole her room. She asked for my love and I gave her a dangerous mind. Ain't there one damn song that can make me break down and cry? Is it nice in your snow storm, freezing your brain? It's a crash course for the ravers ...
Looking around that coffee shop, thinking about Bowie’s absence, I was reminded of a poem I love: Frank O’Hara’s “The Day Lady Died.” When Bowie compiled a list of his 100 favorite books a couple years ago, O’Hara’s Selected Poems was on there. I’d like to think Bowie re...
Meet the Drummer Who Spent Decades With David Gilmour and David Crosby — And a Day With Bowie “Guinnevere” (1969) Imagine it’s 1969 and you just bought CSN’s debut album. It opens with the seven-minute “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” followed by the rollicking “Marrakesh Express.”...