“Down in space it's always 1983”
After four months of solid touring and following a month off the road, the 1983 Serious Moonlight tour reconvened 35 years ago on this day at the Budokan Arena in Tokyo, Japan.
To mark the fact, Denis O’Regan has suggested an amazing contest to win a very generous Ricochet : David Bowie 1983 package.
Stay tuned for more details and have a dig around in readiness for what’s to come, here.
#DavidBowieRicochet
“Singing old songs he loved”
Pin Ups, David Bowie’s album of 60s cover versions, was released 45 years ago today, and was possibly the last great glam rock album of all time. (Discuss)
Either way, it still sounds amazing and if you’ve not heard it in a while, reacquaint yourself with it on Spotify now.
The David Bowie/Ken Scott produced album was preceded by the only single from Pin Ups, Sorrow, which reached #3 on the UK chart. Pin Ups itself entered the UK album chart at #1 on the strength of pre-orders alone.
Joining Bowie on the sleeve for Justin de Villeneuve’s extraordinary photograph with Bowie is Twiggy, name-checked earlier the same year on Aladdin Sane for Drive-In Saturday: “She’d sigh like Twig the Wonder Kid”.
The photo session was shot in Paris for Vogue magazine, but at Bowie's request was used for the album instead. The back cover and insert featured Mick Rock photographs.
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Pin Ups
Produced: David Bowie/Ken Scott
Released: Friday 19 October 1973
Charted: Saturday 3 November 1973 @ #1
Musicians:
David Bowie – vocals, guitar, tenor and alto saxophone, harmonica, arrangements, backing vocals, Moog synthesiser
Mick Ronson – guitar, piano, vocals, arrangements
Trevor Bolder – bass guitar
Aynsley Dunbar – drums
Mike Garson – piano, organ, harpsichord, electric piano
Ken Fordham – baritone saxophone
G.A. MacCormack – backing vocals
Design:
Justin de Villeneuve - front cover photograph
Twiggy - Twig the Wonderkid on front cover
Pierre Laroche - front cover makeup masks for Twig and Bowie
Mick Rock - back cover photography/design
Ray Campbell - front cover lettering
#BowiePinUps
“Waiting for the gift of sound AND vision...”
BBC FOUR will have an hour preview of 10 of the full 21 song greatest hits set from the forthcoming DAVID BOWIE ‘GLASTONBURY 2000 DVD in a little over a week.
Documenting Bowie’s legendary Sunday night headline performance on 25th June at the most famous festival on Earth, only 37 minutes of the original show have been broadcast previously. So look away now if you want the songs that will be shown on 26th October to remain a surprise:
BOWIE AT GLASTONBURY 2000 PREVIEW
Friday 26th October 2018
BBC FOUR 22:55
Wild Is The Wind
China Girl
Changes
Life On Mars?
Ashes To Ashes
Rebel Rebel
Golden Years
Little Wonder
Starman
Ziggy Stardust
"Heroes"
Let’s Dance
Parlophone Records in association with BBC Studios and Glastonbury Festivals Ltd. releases DAVID BOWIE ‘GLASTONBURY 2000’ on 2CD/DVD, 3LP, 2CD and standard and high resolution digital formats ON 30TH November, 2018.
Go here for the press release and full tracklisting.
#BowieGlasto2000
“All the pages that have turned”
Andy Jones and Nick Smart at David Bowie Glamour Fanzine (DBG) have been in touch to give us an exclusive first look at the latest issue of their fine product.
They’re selling very quickly, as usual, so if you haven’t already pre-ordered Issue 4, go here now.
DBG has a new look and is now in the very capable hands of designer Lizzie Capewell, with the cover still being created by the queen of illustration, Helen Green.
The publication boasts exclusive and original content contributed by Bowie fans and collaborators. Contributors to issue 4 include:
Kevin Armstrong
Glenn Gregory
Des Henly
Marshall Jarman
Gerry Leonard
Sean Mayes (From his diaries)
Steve Norman
Marc ‘Thriving’ Riley
Carmine Rojas
George Underwood
Rick Wakeman
As if this wasn’t enough, there are also 2 free prints or 3 if you were an early bird.
*We are duty-bound to point out that David Bowie: Glamour is not an official publication.
#DavidBowieGlamourFanzine
“Oh, look out you rock ‘n’ rollers”
It’s National Album Day in the UK today (Saturday, 13th October) and the celebrations started early. You may have seen that Mary Anne Hobbs on BBC 6 Music kicked off proceedings by playing David Bowie’s ★ in full, plus she had a chat with Donny McCaslin, ★ bandleader.
Always ahead of the curve, David Bowie himself possibly foresaw the result of a 12-hour poll of 381 Bowie fans over on BOWIE KOOKS for their favourite Bowie studio album. He predicted it in his son's bedroom in 1972 by holding the Hunky Dory artwork in a moment captured by the magician of rock photography, Mick Rock. But it’s far more likely he didn’t.
In an interview with Chris Roberts in UNCUT in 1999, Bowie himself considered the album to be one of the most important in his career, he said: "Hunky Dory gave me a fabulous groundswell. I guess it provided me, for the first time in my life, with an actual audience – I mean, people actually coming up to me and saying, 'Good album, good songs.' That hadn't happened to me before. It was like, 'Ah, I'm getting it, I'm finding my feet. I'm starting to communicate what I want to do. Now: what is it I want to do?' There was always a double whammy there.".
The other three albums in our montage are there because, a) Mary Anne Hobbs played ★ in full, b) the BBC 6 Music Breakfast Team, chose Station To Station as one of their four all-time favourite albums, and, c) a member of the 15-strong Official Charts team chose Low as their all-time favourite album.
We’ll leave you with the Top 10.
01 - Hunky Dory (68 votes)
02 - Station To Station (56 votes)
03 - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (47 votes)
04 - Low (44 votes)
05 - Diamond Dogs (30 votes)
06 - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (25 votes)
07 - 1. Outside (24 votes)
08 - Aladdin Sane (16 votes)
= 09 - ★ (Blackstar) (10 votes)
= 09 - Heathen (10 votes)
10 - Young Americans (8 votes)
It’s probably no surprise that a group called BOWIE KOOKS would vote for Hunky Dory. See the full poll result over on BOWIE KOOKS
#NationalAlbumDay
“Listen to me”
Experience all of the new David Bowie: Loving the Alien (1983-1988) box set now on Spotify, including the newly-remastered versions of Let’s Dance, Tonight and Never Let Me Down, plus the 2018 edition of Never Let Me Down, including the singles, Zeroes and Beat of Your Drum. You can also hear live albums from 1983 and 1987 and the Dance and Re:Call 4 compilations.
#LTAbox
“And you'll believe you’re loving the alien”
To celebrate the release of David Bowie Loving The Alien (1983 – 1988), Helen Green has been busy with another of her superb animations. View it on DBFB.
David Bowie Loving The Alien (1983 – 1988) is the fourth in a series of box sets spanning Bowie’s career from 1969. If you’ve not heard about it yet, read the full press release here.
#LTAbox
“And the next day, And the next, And another day”
The folk at Anthem Publishing have been in touch with details of the fourth and final instalment of The Bowie Years and here are they are...
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The fourth and final volume of The Bowie Years, From Outsider To Blackstar, explores the creative, experimental brilliance of Bowie’s later period. We pick up almost immediately where we left of in volume 3, when Bowie, his creative spark restored by The Buddha Of Suburbia soundtrack, reunited with Brian Eno to record the remarkable, challenging 1. Outside in 1995.
It set the experimental, avant garde template for the following two decades of his recording life, whether it was the electronica of Earthling, the brooding art-rock of Heathen, the startling nostalgia of The Next Day and of course, the wonderful jazz-tinged coda to everything that is Blackstar.
Inside this 132-page collector’s edition, our experts chart the varied and polarising work David Bowie created between 1994 and 2016, analysing each diverse album of the period on a track by track basis, while also pulling out a playlist of lesser known gems for you to get your ears round.
What’s more, we also explore Bowie’s relationship with his varied collaborators in this era – including brand new interviews with long-time pianist Mike Garson, producer Mark Plati, composer Maria Schneider and Blackstar bandleader Donny McCaslin.
From Outsider To Blackstar is the final bittersweet chapter of The Bowie Years, which goes in-depth with the remarkable music that Bowie was creating right until his sad passing. It’s a must-own for all true Bowie fans, so be sure to make it part of your collection today.
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The Bowie Years Volume 4 is available from Thursday 18th October, pre-order here:
There’s also a 25% saving in the offing if you’re interested in the complete Bowie Years collection, which, to our reckoning, is one complete instalment for free!
#TheBowieYears
“5, 4, 3, 2, 1, LIFT OFF...”
The story is in the headline. You all know Space Oddity, but unless you saw this Top Of The Pops performance at the time, you won't be familiar with the moment that David Bowie first got proper mass exposure on UK TV, as it's another piece of footage that went to the BBC wipers to be lost forever.
Taped the previous week on 2nd October when the song was finally threatening the Top 20 (it was released three months earlier on 11th July), Bowie’s solo performance saw him accompanied by 12-string guitar and his trusty Stylophone to a backing prepared by Gus Dudgeon, synchronised to the BBC orchestra.
The performance was repeated the following week on 16th October and these showings helped the song to its peak position of #5 in November.
The 1975 reissue of Space Oddity was the first single in the UK to reach the #1 spot after having previously been a Top 5 hit.
Anyway, Space Oddity was the hit that stepped things up considerably for Bowie, even if it was almost another three years before a very different looking spaceman began his world domination via Starman on Top Of The Pops.
#BowieSpaceOddity
“Through morning's thoughts and fantasies”
Tune in to the BBC Radio 6 Music Breakfast Show for some exciting David Bowie news on Monday morning (8th October) around 9:30am BST.
“I can make you happy every day of your life”
(LTA = Loving The Alien (1983 - 1988) - LLV = Long Live Vinyl magazine)
Already celebrating issue 20, LLV has featured Bowie regularly within its pages, and now the November 2018 issue has an 8-page feature and full page review (both by John Earls), focusing on LTA
Here’s a bit from longlivevinyl.net:
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As the exhaustive new 15-disc David Bowie boxset, Loving The Alien, hits the streets, Long Live Vinyl lifts the lid on the period between 1983-88 when Bowie became a global pop megastar.
Through exclusive interviews with Nile Rodgers, Carlos Alomar, Reeves Gabrels and Hugh Padgham, we bring you the inside story behind Bowie’s biggest decade, as well as an in-depth look at the reimagined Never Let Me Down 2018 album that’s the highlight of the new boxset.
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Aside from the 8-page feature, there’s an 8 out of 10 review for LTA: “In essence, Loving The Alien is an excellently curated document...”. On top of that is the cover and a full-page advert for LTA bringing the page count up to eleven.
The November issue of Long Live Vinyl is available now. More information and ordering links here.
David Bowie: Loving The Alien (1983 - 1988) is released on October 12th.
#LLV #LTA #BowieVinyl
“Someone passed some bliss among the crowd”
Find all the exciting details in the press release below.
Pre-order here.
#BowieGlasto2000
DAVID BOWIE ‘GLASTONBURY 2000’ - THE LEGENDARY FULL PERFORMANCE RELEASED FOR THE FIRST TIME INCLUDING MANY OF DAVID’S GREATEST HITS AND NEVER BEFORE SEEN FOOTAGE
2xCD/DVD, 3xLP, 2CD, DIGITAL,
HIGH RESOLUTION (48/24) DIGITAL
RELEASED 30th NOVEMBER, 2018
“Not only the greatest Glastonbury headline performance but the best headline slot at any festival ever” NME
All formats feature Life On Mars?, Changes, Let's Dance, Under Pressure, “Heroes”, Fame, China Girl, Ashes To Ashes, Ziggy Stardust, Rebel Rebel, Station To Station, Golden Years, Absolute Beginners and many more.
2nd October 2018 London: Parlophone Records in association with BBC Studios and Glastonbury Festivals Ltd. are proud to announce DAVID BOWIE ‘GLASTONBURY 2000’ on 2CD/DVD, 3LP, 2CD and standard and high resolution digital formats documenting Bowie’s legendary Sunday night headline performance on 25th June at the most famous festival on earth.
The package includes the full 21 song greatest hits set and for the first time, a DVD of the entire show (only 37 minutes of which has ever been broadcast on TV) including the Glastonbury performance of ‘Heroes’, a highlight of the record breaking ‘David Bowie Is…’ exhibition and the only track that has been previously released.
All formats feature David’s diary, originally written for Time Out, which documents him preparing for the show in his own inimitable manner:
“As of 1990 I got through the rest of the 20th century without having to do a big hits show. Yes, yes, I know I did four or five hits on the later shows but I held out pretty well I thought…big, well known songs will litter the field at Glastonbury this year. Well, with a couple of quirks of course”.
In addition to newly mastered audio and upgraded video DAVID BOWIE ‘GLASTONBURY 2000’ features new artwork from Jonathan Barnbrook (who worked with Bowie on the sleeves for Heathen, The Next Day & ★) and notes from the renowned author and Bowie fan Caitlin Moran who reviewed the show for The Times.
The package features photos of Bowie resplendently dressed in a 3/4 length one-of-a-kind Alexander McQueen frock coat, the pattern of which was made to echo the hat (the famous ‘bipperty-bopperty hat’ mentioned in the song Queen Bitch) and worn by David at his Glastonbury Fayre debut in 1971.
Glastonbury co-organiser Emily Eavis commented “I often get asked what the best set I've seen here at Glastonbury is, and Bowie's 2000 performance is always one which I think of first. It was spellbinding; he had an absolutely enormous crowd transfixed. I think Bowie had a very deep relationship with Worthy Farm and he told some wonderful stories about his first time at the Festival in 1971, when he stayed at the farmhouse and performed at 6am as the sun was rising. And he just played the perfect headline set. It really was a very special and emotional show”.
Emily’s father Michael, the founder of the festival who first met David at Glastonbury in 1971 said “He’s one of the three greatest of all-time: Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and David Bowie.”
DAVID BOWIE ‘GLASTONBURY 2000’ TRACKLISTING
2 x CD / DVD SET
CD 1
Introduction (Greensleeves)
Wild Is The Wind
China Girl
Changes
Stay
Life On Mars?
Absolute Beginners
Ashes To Ashes
Rebel Rebel
Little Wonder
Golden Years
CD 2
Fame
All The Young Dudes
The Man Who Sold The World
Station To Station
Starman
Hallo Spaceboy
Under Pressure
Ziggy Stardust
“Heroes”
Let’s Dance
I'm Afraid Of Americans
DVD
Introduction (Greensleeves)
Wild Is The Wind
China Girl
Changes
Stay
Life On Mars?
Absolute Beginners
Ashes To Ashes
Rebel Rebel
Little Wonder
Golden Years
Fame
All The Young Dudes
The Man Who Sold The World
Station To Station
Starman
Hallo Spaceboy
Under Pressure
Ziggy Stardust
“Heroes”
Let’s Dance
I'm Afraid Of Americans
3 x LP
Side 1
Introduction (Greensleeves)
Wild Is The Wind
China Girl
Changes
Side 2
Stay
Life On Mars?
Absolute Beginners
Side 3
Ashes To Ashes
Rebel Rebel
Little Wonder
Golden Years
Side 4
Fame
All The Young Dudes
The Man Who Sold The World
Station To Station
Side 5
Starman
Hallo Spaceboy
Under Pressure
Ziggy Stardust
Side 6
“Heroes”
Let’s Dance
I'm Afraid Of Americans
2 CD set / standard and high resolution (48kHz/24bit) digital
CD 1
Introduction (Greensleeves)
Wild Is The Wind
China Girl
Changes
Stay
Life On Mars?
Absolute Beginners
Ashes To Ashes
Rebel Rebel
Little Wonder
Golden Years
CD 2
Fame
All The Young Dudes
The Man Who Sold The World
Station To Station
Starman
Hallo Spaceboy
Under Pressure
Ziggy Stardust
“Heroes”
Let’s Dance
I'm Afraid Of Americans
DAVID BOWIE GLASTONBURY 2000 is released on Parlophone 30th November, 2018
“Bang Bang, I got mine”
BBC Radio 6 Music exclusively revealed David Bowie’s Bang Bang 2018 on the superb Iggy Confidential show yesterday.
Iggy Pop originally recorded Bang Bang for his album, Party, in 1981 and released it as a single later that same year. David Bowie was enamoured enough with the song to record his own version for Never Let Me Down in 1987.
Bang Bang featured in the setlist of The 1987 Glass Spider Tour. Indeed, a live version (recorded at the Olympic Stadium, Montreal Canada, on 30th August 1987), was issued as a US promo-only 4-track CD EP, which also included the LP version.
The LP version was singled out for issue as a promo-only 7" in Australia, possibly to tie in with the Australian tour dates in October/November 1987.
The 2018 version of Bang Bang with new string arrangement by Nico Muhly will feature on Mario McNulty's reconstruction of Never Let Me Down 2018, included in the upcoming David Bowie: Loving The Alien (1983-1988) set.
If you missed Iggy Confidential, catch up here and listen to what else Iggy had to say about Bang Bang.
#BowieIggy #BangBang #IggyConfidential #LTAbox
“Breaking Glass in your room again”
DAVID BOWIE - BREAKING GLASS LIVE EP LIMITED EDITION 40th ANNIVERSARY 7" PICTURE DISC
* FEATURING FOUR PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS *
16th November 2018, sees the release of the latest limited DAVID BOWIE 7" picture disc, the 40th-anniversary edition of the BREAKING GLASS EP.
This new version of the EP features three previously unreleased live versions of the original EP tracks plus the addition of an unreleased live version of Hang On To Yourself.
The Breaking Glass EP now features: BREAKING GLASS, ART DECADE, HANG ON TO YOURSELF and ZIGGY STARDUST live from Earls Court in London during the Isolar II tour of 1978.
These four tracks are alternative performances to the ones that recently appeared on the critically acclaimed live album WELCOME TO THE BLACKOUT (LIVE LONDON ’78), and none were featured on the original 1978 EP.
Initially released in the UK in January 1977 on the ground-breaking LOW album, the studio version of Breaking Glass was co-written by Bowie, bassist George Murray and drummer Dennis Davis. A longer, reworked version of the song was a staple of the Isolar II Tour, and a live version from that tour was used as the lead track on the original live 7" EP to promote Bowie's second live album, STAGE, in 1978.
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DAVID BOWIE - BREAKING GLASS LIVE E.P. LIMITED EDITION 40th ANNIVERSARY 7" PICTURE DISC.
Side A
1. Breaking Glass (live) (3.22)
(David Bowie, George Murray & Dennis Davis)
2. Art Decade (live) (3.12)
(David Bowie)
Side AA
1. Hang On To Yourself (live) (2.38)
(David Bowie)
2. Ziggy Stardust (live) (3.35)
(David Bowie)
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All tracks previously unreleased.
Produced by David Bowie
Recorded live by Tony Visconti with The Manor Mobile
Mixed by David Bowie and David Richards at Mountain Studios, Montreux 17th-22nd January, 1979.
Recorded Live at Earls Court, London, 30th June and 1st July, 1978
The images used on the picture disc are by Masayoshi Sukita (A-Side) and Andrew Kent (AA-Side) taken during the Isolar II tour of 1978.
BREAKING GLASS LIVE E.P. is released on Parlophone 16th November, 2018.
#DBBG40 #BowieVinyl
“The music is outside”
As you most likely know, David Bowie’s 1. Outside album was released on 25th September, 1995, 23 years ago today.
What did you make of it when you first heard it, particularly considering its predecessors: Black Tie White Noise (April 1993) and The Buddha Of Suburbia (November 1993)?
Join in the debate over on BOWIE KOOKS.
#BowieOutside
“The stars are out tonight”
David Bowie’s Tonight album was released on 24th September, 1984, 34 years ago today.
Though there were only three tracks on the album that David Bowie had no hand in the writing of, Tonight has a higher percentage of covers than any other Bowie album, aside from Pin Ups, Bowie’s 1973 covers LP.
With just two solo Bowie compositions and two new co-writes out of the nine tracks, five of the songs on Tonight could be considered cover versions.
Pop over to BOWIE KOOKS to join in the Tonight debate.
#BowieTonight
“He opened strange doors that we'd never close again”
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Released: Friday 12 September 1980
Charted: Saturday 27 September 1980 @ #1
Today sees the 38th anniversary of Bowie’s Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps). You may have noticed that we don’t normally highlight anniversaries that aren't of five year increments: 50, 45, 40, etc., as every day would be filled with them if we tried to.
However, BOWIE KOOKS have a Scary Monsters Day over on the only Official David Bowie Facebook Fan Group.
#BowieScaryMonsters
“BOO BAH BOO BAH BOO BAH”
In case you forgot to tune in yesterday, remember we are posting ‘David Bowie: Loving The Alien (1983-1988)’ related visual content on the Bowie socials and on YouTube every Wednesday and Sunday.
Each snippet features Bowie collaborators of the period, such as: Nile Rodgers, Mario McNulty, Reeves Gabrels, Carlos Alomar and Hugh Padgham...and on occasion, the man himself.
In episode 3 (http://smarturl.it/DBTV3YT), Nile Rodgers (Let's Dance co-producer), remembers how a bit of post-modernistic reinterpretation helped Bowie get the horns on Let’s Dance.
Check back on Wednesday at 3:00pm BST for the next Bowie TV instalment.
#BowieTV
“Welcome to Reality”
Fifteen years ago this evening, Bowie fans had made their way to the Riverside studios in London’s Hammersmith, or to their nearest cinema to witness the goings on at aforementioned venue.
For it was on 8th September 2003 that Bowie and band unleashed a live version of his upcoming album, Reality, to a small throng of lucky BowieNetters along with 50,000 fans around the globe by the magic of a satellite broadcast.
Before we leave you with an excerpt from the original US press release and the setlist, we should mention that you can view a photo album from the night over on BOWIE KOOKS, the only Official David Bowie Facebook Fan Group.
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DAVID BOWIE BRINGS ‘REALITY’ TO 50,000 FANS IN GLOBAL SATELITE CONCERT
BOWIE MAKES HISTORY WITH FIRST EVER LIVE, INTERACTIVE GLOBAL CINEMA EVENT
DAVID BOWIE made history this week with the biggest ever live and interactive music satellite event the world has ever seen.
The special one-off live concert was beamed via satellite Monday, September 8 from London’s Riverside Studios, simultaneously to 50,000 fans in 86 cinemas in 26 countries around the planet from Hong Kong to Helsinki. There were 14 screens in Paris alone dedicated to the show.
BOWIE thrilled fans across Europe with a spectacular, first-ever live performance of his brand new album REALITY, due September 16 on ISO/Columbia Records. The performance of the album was followed by precedent-setting interactive question and answer session between BOWIE and fans in cinemas in London, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Brussels and Milan.
The event marked many firsts in technological terms: it was the biggest ever non-TV satellite broadcast, the first ever interactive cinema event and the first live satellite event in 5.1 DTS surround sound, which was overseen by longtime BOWIE collaborator, Tony Visconti.
BOWIE—embarking October 7 on his first World Tour in almost a decade–thrilled fans in movie theaters with an exclusive preview of his new album REALITY to over 2000 people in Paris, a 1000 fans in London and thousands of fans in Berlin, Stockholm, Oslo, Dublin, Budapest and Copenhagen. There were reports across Europe of fans flocking to the front of the screen as though it were a live gig, and for the first time there was dancing in the aisles, much to the chagrin of the cinema ushers whom tried in vain to keep order!
This precedent-setting event also went live across Asia Tuesday, September 9 with a live Q&A between DAVID and fans in Japan, Australia, Singapore and across Southeast Asia. The event will also be beamed to North America (Canada as well as New York City) and South America Monday, September 15, with BOWIE doing brand new live question and answer sessions for those broadcasts.
The amazing one-off night was topped with a special set of fan favorites voted for by members of BOWIEnet, including Lodger’s “Fantastic Voyage,” “Hang on To Yourself” from Ziggy Stardust and “Hallo Spaceboy” from Outside.
As a special treat to the cinema crowd, BOWIE also performed an unscheduled set of songs at the end of the show, which included the classic “Modern Love” and a duo of tracks,”Cactus” and “Afraid” from last year’s widely acclaimed, million-selling album Heathen.
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Here’s the full setlist:
Warm up:
A New Career In A New Town
Plus short snippets of Blur’s Song 2 and Link Wray’s Rumble
Main set:
New Killer Star
Pablo Picasso
Never Get Old
The Loneliest Guy
Looking For Water
She'll Drive The Big Car
Days
Fall Dog Bombs The Moon
Try Some, Buy Some
Reality
Bring Me The Disco King
(Satellite questions and answer session with Jonathan Ross)
Extra set for live audience:
Hallo Spaceboy
Fantastic Voyage
Hang On To Yourself
Modern Love
Cactus
Afraid
New Killer Star
One thing that doesn't come across in the press release is the hilarious banter between Bowie and the assembled BowieNetters and celebrities.
#BowieReality
“You know, I'll give you television”
To complement the release of ‘David Bowie: Loving The Alien (1983-1988)’ (LTA), we will be posting short LTA-related visual content on the Bowie socials and on YouTube every Wednesday and Sunday.
Each snippet features Bowie collaborators of the period, such as: Nile Rodgers, Mario McNulty, Reeves Gabrels, Carlos Alomar and Hugh Padgham...and on occasion, the man himself.
In episode 2, Nile Rodgers, (Let's Dance co-producer) discusses rearranging China Girl with David Bowie.
Check back on Sunday at 3:00pm BST for the next Bowie TV instalment.
#BowieTV