"Sorry about knocking you off of the top of the UK singles chart with 'Space Oddity', Art."
"What are you talking about David? That doesn't happen until September, and we're only
in March." - David Bowie and Art Garfunkel at the 1975 Grammy Awards, at which David
presented an astonished Aretha Franklin with the award for Best Female Soul Singer.

There's a sailor who sings...

A nice little early birthday present for DB is the news that he has been nominated for a GRAMMY Award. The announcement was made at a press conference today at Madison Square Garden. David has been nominated for 'Slow Burn' in the Best Male Rock Vocal Performance category. These are the five nominations:

Field 4 - Rock - Category 15 - Best Male Rock Vocal Performance (For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only)

• Slow Burn
David Bowie
Track from: Heathen
[Columbia Records Group]

• 45
Elvis Costello
Track from: When I Was Cruel
[Island Records]

• The Barry Williams Show
Peter Gabriel
Track from: Up
[Geffen/DGC]

• Darkness, Darkness
Robert Plant
Track from: Dreamland
[Universal Records]

• The Rising
Bruce Springsteen
Track from: The Rising
[Columbia Records]

The GRAMMY Awards 45th annual ceremony telecast will be staged at Madison Square Garden in New York City on February 23rd, 2003. The ceremony is telecast annually to an international audience of over 2 billion in 180 countries. Good luck David.

Total Blam Blam - (BowieNet News Editor)

01.07.2003 SNIPPET: DB ON TOTP2 (UK) TOMORROW NIGHT

I'm happy, hope you're happy too

Tomorrow night's edition of TOTP2 is set to include David's performance of 'Ashes To Ashes' recorded in New York in June 2002. (06/03/02 NEWS: BOWIE WOWS FANS AT TOTP RECORDING and 05/29/02 NEWS: WIN ONE OF 50 PLACES AT SECRET TOTP RECORDING!).

The show goes out on BBC2 UK at 6.20PM, Wednesday 8th January.

Enjoy!

:))

Spaceface

01.07.2003 SNIPPET: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MRS BLAM BLAM

"You ready with the camera Blam? Sure she won't hit me back?"
Mrs Blam deftly avoids a left hook with a diplomatic handshake.

Ain't there a woman I can sock on the jaw?

I'd just like to use my annual abuse of position, if it's OK with you lot, to wish my dear lady wife, Gae, a very happy birthday. She is pictured above backstage at Hammersmith with a chap who also has a birthday very soon.

I can't quite remember the exact conversation at the point that I took this picture, but it looks the sort of shot that would be perfect for a caption competition sometime... and yes, that is BowieNetter Kisch refereeing.

Anyway, I'll keep this short, but I'm afraid I just need to clear up one point that has been brought to my attention. It seems there are one or two nasty rumourmongers in our community who have suggested that my Bowie fandom is such that I only settled on Gae because I couldn't find a woman born on the eighth. Scurrilous! };-)

Total Blam Blam - (BowieNet News Editor)