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01.08.2010 NEWS: WIN ROYAL MAIL ZIGGY STARDUST FDC SIGNED BY BOWIE
Battle For Britain (The Letter) Day 1...
As promised yesterday, today is day one of our contest in which ten very lucky BowieNetters get to win one of the above Royal Mail Classic Album Covers, First Day Cover (FDC), signed by David Bowie this very day!
As you can see, the covers have the Ziggy Stardust stamp and the postmark with yesterday's date of issue. That alone is a future collectors' item, but with the Bowie signature it's obviously even more desirable.
The envelope itself will also contain the Royal Mail Ziggy Stardust card and a row of five Ziggy Stardust stamps.
In keeping with the Royal Mail theme of the stamps, we've taken letters from several different Bowie album covers and your job will be to identify each of them as we post them daily over the next couple of weeks.
You don't have to do anything until all of the letters are posted here on BowieNet. But we'll post them daily anyway to give you a chance to track them all down where need be.
We've kicked off with an instantly recognisable letter and I'm sure you'll have no trouble identifying which Bowie album it's from.
Check back daily for each new letter and await my further instruction...if this contest takes your fancy that is.
Forty years ago this very day, David Bowie spent the evening of his 23rd birthday at London's Speakeasy club, performing a solo set to a very small but appreciative crowd for the princely sum of £100!
To celebrate his 50th birthday 27 years and one day later (January 9th, 1997) he performed a very special show at New York's Madison Square Garden to an ecstatic sell-out crowd.
By this point Bowie had played the venue several times but his first visit to Madison Square Garden was to see Elvis Presley perform in 1972 when he arrived late and in full Ziggy clobber, to the clear irritation of Elvis himself.
Later the same year, the New York Sunday News published a Bowie front cover with the headline: David Bowie: The Elvis Of The Seventies.
The following year in 1973, The Story of Pop magazine published the above front cover with the question...Bowie: the disturbing new King Of Rock?
The cover of the magazine, depicting Bowie and Elvis together, was created by Philip Castle...the man responsible for both the Clockwork Orange soundtrack cover and the airbrushed teardrop on the Aladdin Sane cover. Philip's original rough for the Story of Pop cover is on the right above.
Approximately two years after Bowie saw Elvis at MSG, he played his very first show at the venue himself. This was in July 1974 as part of the Diamond Dogs Tour.
Actually, I don't really know where I'm going with this...so I'll just wish David Bowie a very happy 63rd birthday on what would have been Elvis's 75th birthday.
You can join in the well-wishing yourself in this thread on the MBs created by BowieNetter Hazel.
Speaking of David Bowie and Elvis Presley...
Put on your brothel creepers and dance the blues...
If you're within spitting distance of Glasgow this evening, you may want to join in today's birthday celebrations with the folks at MONO. Here's a bit from the organisers...
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Again! Its Bowie and Elvis's birthday, January 8th 2010. As ever the event will take place in Mono, Kings Street, Glasgow.
We will be playing records, CDs and tapes and maybe even singing!! Elvis would have been 75!! and Mr Bowie is 63. So come down and check it out.
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Anyway, don't take our word for it, The Guardian considered the event important enough to list...and this is how they did it.
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Bowie Vs Elvis, Glasgow
With the stress of Christmas and the new year only just receding, nobody will blame you for overlooking another important date. Next Friday is only David Bowie's – and Elvis Presley's – birthday! To celebrate what would have been the King's 75th and what's amazingly the Thin White Duke's 63rd, the folks at Mono will lay on a party night with music by the pair of popsters' being played back to back. Maybe something along the lines of Hound Dog, then Diamond Dogs, then Old Shep, then Young Americans? Almost incredibly, it's Shirley Bassey's birthday too, so expect a few big tunes from Cardiff's grande dame peppering the set.
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So perhaps you can expect a few DB B-sides and perhaps some of The King's Bs too...sorry, that was laboured and unfunny, but I'm keeping it nevertheless.
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