Duncan Jones
Once called Zowie Bowie, Duncan Jones – David Bowie’s only son – has become a successful film director, whose most recent movie grossed $147 million and was critically acclaimed. David Bowie and his...
View ArticleDavid Bowie & Iman Wedding
On June 6, 1992 David Bowie and Iman were married in a church service at the American Church of St James in Florence, Italy. (In a bizarre coincidence, that was the 20th anniversary of the release of...
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…. I won’t be publishing an article this week. Check back next Wednesday, I will have something you’ve never read before on Ziggy Stardust.
View ArticleZiggy Stardust Inspiration?
An androgynously beautiful man from Mars comes to Earth and wins a fervent following, being acclaimed as a Messiah, but ultimately is killed by a mob. Sounds familiar, sounds like the basic storyline...
View ArticleDavid Bowie Labyrinth
For some, David Bowie’s most vivid persona is not Ziggy Stardust or The Thin White Duke, but Jareth the Goblin King, star of the movie Labyrinth, which hit theatres on 27 June 1986. Is that the...
View ArticleDavid Bowie Starman
David Bowie on Top of the Pops: “Let All The Children Boogie” At 7:25 pm on July 6, 1972, over a quarter of the British population watched David Bowie sing ‘Starman’ on TV. Here was a man with make up...
View ArticleDavid Bowie Mick Jagger Dancing In The Street
The campest video ever! In 1985, David Bowie and Mick Jagger dueted on a hastily recorded version of ‘Dancing In The Street’, the 1964 Motown classic co-written by Marvin Gaye. The Bowie/Jagger version...
View ArticleIman
Iman. Supermodel and role model. In addition to her global fame as gloriously beautiful and the first African woman to win the support of the Western fashion industry, Iman is an entrepreneur, activist...
View ArticleAll The Young Dudes
David Bowie gave away one of his greatest songs to another band! The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame described ‘All The Young Dudes’ as one of the “500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll”. ‘All The Young...
View ArticleMarc Bolan
Bowie and Bolan. It was complicated. Bolan was complicated! A Rolls Royce owner who couldn’t drive. A dyslexic who never read the books which inspired his early hippie lyrics. (Instead, his wife read...
View ArticleDavid Bowie Bing Crosby
Strangest duet ever? Aladdin Sane and the Old Groaner perform the wonderful Christmas medley, ‘Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy’, on the 74 year old Bing Crosby’s ‘Merrie Olde Christmas’ TV special...
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