Uncut Magazine (Jan. 2000) has some snippets thismonth.
APOCALYPSE WOW!
100 moments that shook music, movies... and the world. A personal chronicle of a century of genius, madness,murder, riots and war. By Nick Halstead.
This is a chronological history of the 20th century,detailing events which were important for thejournalist.
1 : 'Birth of a Nation' 1915
8 : Hiroshima 1945
15 : Little Richard's 'Tutti Frutti' 1955
25 : Beatlemania 1964
27 : Dylan Live 1966
37 : The first moon landing 1969
40 : The Godfather 1971
45 : ZIGGY STARDUST 1972
51 : Jack Nicholson in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' 1975
59 : John Lennon's murder 1980
68 : Live Aid 1985
80 : The Stone Roses 'Fools Gold' 1989
87 : Reservoir Dogs 1992
88 : Kurt Cobain's suicide 1994
92 : Britpop : Oasis at Knebworth 1996
100 : Human Traffic 1999
he had this to say about Ziggy:
'swaggering, Beatlesque music and gaunt alien guisesto make British teenagers reach for the glamorousstars. Swingin' London's gladrags sent into orbit.'
ALBUMS OF THE YEAR : 1999
'hours...' reached spot # 45.
"Bowie's most commercially successful album in over a decade is also his most coherent and musically satisfying work of the Nineties. LArgely gimmick-free and suffused with mid-life annui, 'hours...' is the sound of the 52 year-old archdeaconof alienated art-rock taking sober, reflective stockof his place on the planet at the dawn of the newmillennium."
MOVIE NEWS
" ...Rumours are circulating that David Bowie is finallygoing to make a film of Ziggy Stardust - the fictionalpersona he created for the 1972 album, 'The Rise AndFall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars'
'Bowie addressed the Ziggy film concept, stating that"Someone young and very pretty" should play the role.'"
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