david bowie
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David Bowie – Old song, new documentary
Today is David Bowie's birthday, which we still remember although, in a couple of days, it will actually be 10 years since he passed away. David Bowie Back In Berlin is a piece from 2024 about the song "Where are we now?" which I am reposting. this song announced the end of a strange searching period in Bowie's career after the massive success of "Let's Dance" in the mid-1980s. This transition is also the subject of a new documentary called "David Bowie - The Final Act".
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Songsmith David Bowie Back In Berlin
At first hearing on the radio, "Where are we now?" sounded like somebody sleepwalking, a ghost from the past. Didn't I know that voice, that London drawl, that downbeat drag? By the chorus, it was clearly David Bowie. Released overnight unannounced as the lead track for The Next Day on 8th January 2013, Bowie's 66th birthday, "Where are we now?" was his first new solo single since 2003. It is also the subject of the next instalment of the series Songsmiths.
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Rock At The Oval 30th September 1972
Rock at The Oval?! I rejoiced when I discovered that the 1972 Readers' Poll Winners Concert for my favourite weekly music paper Melody Maker would be rocking The Oval Cricket Ground in South London on September 30th with Focus, Genesis, Jack Bruce, Wishbone Ash, Emerson Lake and Palmer. Memories of a great day out and a historic concert.
