Review David Bowie

TheSowIsMine

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Im a big Bowie fan and I still can't believe he is dead.
Anyway, I grew up watching him as the goblin king, so that role will always be a special one. But I liked him best in The Man Who Fell to Earth. There was something so fragile about him in that film.

I also found him funny in the Jazzin' for Blue Jean video.
 
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His performance as The Elephant Man on the New York stage received raves.

Thankfully it was recorded.


Rather chillingly, according to Albert Goldman, Mark David Chapman went to see a performance of it, shortly before shooting John Lennon.
 
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Its a shame there isn't a full recording of that play with him as Merrick. I do have this crappy version of him in Baal.
And yeah, that is chilling.
 
Carol

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BBC's version of Baal (Brecht musical) and also his freaky cameo in Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me (still not a clue, but it was great)

Just heard on the nine o'clock news he's won the expected Brit Award. <sigh>
 
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Some questions don't have just one answer, and this one one of those questions. Even though Im going to cheat and post a number of songs, its still very hard to mention just a few.
The list of songs tied in the first spot is very big, so this is just a handful.

 
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Doctor Omega

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JOHN LENNON’S ASSASSIN HAD A HIT LIST & DAVID BOWIE WAS NEXT

Honestly, no matter how thoroughly I prepare for an interview with a musician, I never can be totally certain of what might be revealed. I’ve been rattled more than once by a revelation from a musician for which there had been no previous report, but none more stunning than the one the late David Bowie gave me in 1999 when the recording was turned off. According to Bowie, New York City police discovered that his name was next on a hit list of targets of John Lennon’s assassin, Mark David Chapman.
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http://www.inthestudio.net/redbeards-blog/john-lennon-assassin-had-hitlist-david-bowie-2/

At the time of Lennon’s December 8, 1980 murder outside of his Manhattan apartment, just blocks away David Bowie was starring on Broadway in the play The Elephant Man. “I was second on his list, the detectives said”, Bowie told me in the New York studio we shared near Madison Square Garden.”Chapman had a front-row ticket to ‘ The Elephant Man‘ the next night. John and Yoko were supposed to sit front-row for that show, too. So the night after John was killed there were three empty seats in the front row. I can’t tell you how difficult that was to go on. I almost didn’t make it through the performance.”
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The irony is that David Bowie’s first #1 hit “Fame”, from theYoung Americans album, was co-written with Lennon who also played guitar on the track. And it was indeed their fame as rock stars which drew Mark David Chapman to stalk them, and subsequently to murder Lennon. –Redbeard
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michaellevenson

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Sorry if this infuriates hardcore Bowie fans, but his later albums I enjoy, but don't really connect with the earlier stuff. An age thing I suppose. Having said that I do have all his albums.
 
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'Life On Mars?' is revenge on Frank Sinatra


Bowie wrote 'Life On Mars' as a revenge on the song 'My Way'. I look at the similarities between the two songs to show how Bowie took the Sinatra classic and ventured off into new harmonic realms!
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Original lyrics written by David Bowie for the music to My Way in 1970. Bowies lyrics were turned down in favour of Paul Anka's. The rest is History.
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David Bowie – Life On Mars? (Official Video)



 
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