HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEXI
“The paintings are all your own…”
We’re sure you will all want to join us in wishing many happy returns of the day to Alexandria Zahra Jones.
Here’s the message her mother Iman posted on socials today…
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Happy Birthday, Little Wonder
God blessed us with the greatest gift: You! @_p0odle_
Have the most glorious birthday #LexiLove #LexiHBD
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With her love of art and music, Lexi is living proof that the apple never falls far from the tree.
Keep an eye on her Linktree to see her recent artwork: https://linktr.ee/alxx.art (See our Linktree in bio)
Picture of David and Iman with the newborn Lexi in 2000 by Brian Aris.
#HappyBirthdayLexi
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEXI
“The paintings are all your own…”
We’re sure you will all want to join us in wishing many happy returns of the day to Alexandria Zahra Jones.
Here’s the message her mother Iman posted on socials today…
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Happy Birthday, Little Wonder
God blessed us with the greatest gift: You! @_p0odle_
Have the most glorious birthday #LexiLove #LexiHBD
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With her love of art and music, Lexi is living proof that the apple never falls far from the tree.
Keep an eye on her Linktree to see her recent artwork: https://linktr.ee/alxx.art (See our Linktree in bio)
Picture of David and Iman with the newborn Lexi in 2000 by Brian Aris.
#HappyBirthdayLexi
Bowie naked and wired as TJ Newton in The Man Who Fell To Earth.
#BowieReflections
Brian Aris took this one of that bloke out of Tin Machine in Dublin in 1991. Good, innit?
#BowieReflections
Jimmy King was responsible for creating many striking images of David Bowie, and this shot from 2013 is no exception.
#BowieReflections
Jimmy King was responsible for creating many striking images of David Bowie, and this shot from 2013 is no exception.
#BowieReflections
BOWIE’S UNIQUE ACHIEVEMENT – PART 1
“I look to the stars…”
Fifty years ago today, full-page adverts were published in the music weeklies and trade mags to mark Bowie’s extraordinary performance on the UK album charts.
With the appearance of the ‘The Bowie five-star constellation’ advert (see second image), it was clear that RCA was more than happy with the way things were going for David Bowie.
Here’s the wording from that advert:
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The Bowie five-star constellation
Unbelievable but a fact – David Bowie takes five places in the Top Fifty album charts for ten whole weeks – a musical achievement unique in our time.
And now, the man who made Space Oddity, The Man Who Sold The World, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars and Aladdin Sane is putting a new album into orbit. It’s called PIN-UPS and will be released in mid-October.
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Things got even crazier with the release of Pin Ups in October, but that’s a whole other story.
The colour image here was one of Mick Rock’s live shots. Often mislabelled as a photo from the final show of the tour at Hammersmith on 3rd July, it isn’t. It was most likely taken at the previous performance at the same venue on the 2nd July.
Aside from an adjacent frame being the background image for the advert, the picture in the advert also ended up on the back sleeve of Pin Ups. But that’s a whole…
Finally, as the Life On Mars? 45 slid out of the UK singles chart, a little old man in scarlet and grey was ascending the same on his way to #6. But that’s…
FOOTNOTE: The sleeve for The Laughing Gnome that appears on the second slide is the 1973 Danish release which contained the UK pressing. There was no picture sleeve in the UK.
📸 Mick Rock
#Bowie5StarConstellation #AladdinSane50 #BowiePinUps50 #Bowie2023Anniversaries
BOWIE’S UNIQUE ACHIEVEMENT – PART 1
“I look to the stars…”
Fifty years ago today, full-page adverts were published in the music weeklies and trade mags to mark Bowie’s extraordinary performance on the UK album charts.
With the appearance of the ‘The Bowie five-star constellation’ advert (see second image), it was clear that RCA was more than happy with the way things were going for David Bowie.
Here’s the wording from that advert:
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The Bowie five-star constellation
Unbelievable but a fact – David Bowie takes five places in the Top Fifty album charts for ten whole weeks – a musical achievement unique in our time.
And now, the man who made Space Oddity, The Man Who Sold The World, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars and Aladdin Sane is putting a new album into orbit. It’s called PIN-UPS and will be released in mid-October.
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Things got even crazier with the release of Pin Ups in October, but that’s a whole other story.
The colour image here was one of Mick Rock’s live shots. Often mislabelled as a photo from the final show of the tour at Hammersmith on 3rd July, it isn’t. It was most likely taken at the previous performance at the same venue on the 2nd July.
Aside from an adjacent frame being the background image for the advert, the picture in the advert also ended up on the back sleeve of Pin Ups. But that’s a whole…
Finally, as the Life On Mars? 45 slid out of the UK singles chart, a little old man in scarlet and grey was ascending the same on his way to #6. But that’s…
FOOTNOTE: The sleeve for The Laughing Gnome that appears on the second slide is the 1973 Danish release which contained the UK pressing. There was no picture sleeve in the UK.
📸 Mick Rock
#Bowie5StarConstellation #AladdinSane50 #BowiePinUps50 #Bowie2023Anniversaries
FAVOURITE BOWIE VIDEO POLL RESULTS – PART FIVE
“Mars happy nation…”
Everybody knows from whence today’s image was sourced: Mick Rock’s remarkable promo for Life On Mars?
The video is number two in our countdown, and, utilising a process of elimination, there won’t be too many surprises in today’s list after the previous posts.
#02 – Life On Mars? 1973
#03 – Boys Keep Swinging 1979
#04 – Jump They Say 1993
#05 – I’m Afraid Of Americans 1997
#06 – ★ Blackstar 2015
Tune in tomorrow for the #1 David Bowie video as voted for by you…but, if it’s not what you’re expecting, what on Earth could it be?
#MyFavouriteBowieVideos
MODERN LOVE 45 IS 40 TODAY
“It’s just the power to charm…”
Today (12th September) marks the 40th anniversary of Bowie’s third single from 1983’s Let’s Dance album.
Jason Draper has kindly pointed us at another of his deep dives over on thisisdig, this time regarding the release of Modern Love.
Here’s his introduction…
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When Modern Love was released as the third single from David Bowie’s Let’s Dance album, its parent record had already flown up the charts, hitting No.4 in the US and going to the top spot around the UK, Europe and Australasia. Following the Let’s Dance song itself and the album’s second single, China Girl, into the upper echelons of the singles charts, Modern Love quickly found its place among the best David Bowie songs of all time. Yet beneath its radio-ready production and singalong chorus lay Bowie’s deep distrust of the twin pillars of religion and romance which society had built itself on. The former outsider artist may have reinvented himself as a mainstream pop star during the early 80s, but he was still committed to using his art to interrogate life as he saw it.
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Read the full thing here: https://www.thisisdig.com/feature/modern-love-david-bowie-song-story/ (Linktree in bio)
📸 Denis O’Regan
#BowieLetsDance40 #BowieModernLove
MODERN LOVE 45 IS 40 TODAY
“It’s just the power to charm…”
Today (12th September) marks the 40th anniversary of Bowie’s third single from 1983’s Let’s Dance album.
Jason Draper has kindly pointed us at another of his deep dives over on thisisdig, this time regarding the release of Modern Love.
Here’s his introduction…
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When Modern Love was released as the third single from David Bowie’s Let’s Dance album, its parent record had already flown up the charts, hitting No.4 in the US and going to the top spot around the UK, Europe and Australasia. Following the Let’s Dance song itself and the album’s second single, China Girl, into the upper echelons of the singles charts, Modern Love quickly found its place among the best David Bowie songs of all time. Yet beneath its radio-ready production and singalong chorus lay Bowie’s deep distrust of the twin pillars of religion and romance which society had built itself on. The former outsider artist may have reinvented himself as a mainstream pop star during the early 80s, but he was still committed to using his art to interrogate life as he saw it.
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Read the full thing here: https://www.thisisdig.com/feature/modern-love-david-bowie-song-story/ (Linktree in bio)
📸 Denis O’Regan
#BowieLetsDance40 #BowieModernLove
MODERN LOVE 45 IS 40 TODAY
“It’s just the power to charm…”
Today (12th September) marks the 40th anniversary of Bowie’s third single from 1983’s Let’s Dance album.
Jason Draper has kindly pointed us at another of his deep dives over on thisisdig, this time regarding the release of Modern Love.
Here’s his introduction…
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When Modern Love was released as the third single from David Bowie’s Let’s Dance album, its parent record had already flown up the charts, hitting No.4 in the US and going to the top spot around the UK, Europe and Australasia. Following the Let’s Dance song itself and the album’s second single, China Girl, into the upper echelons of the singles charts, Modern Love quickly found its place among the best David Bowie songs of all time. Yet beneath its radio-ready production and singalong chorus lay Bowie’s deep distrust of the twin pillars of religion and romance which society had built itself on. The former outsider artist may have reinvented himself as a mainstream pop star during the early 80s, but he was still committed to using his art to interrogate life as he saw it.
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Read the full thing here: https://www.thisisdig.com/feature/modern-love-david-bowie-song-story/ (Linktree in bio)
📸 Denis O’Regan
#BowieLetsDance40 #BowieModernLove
EASY STAR ALL-STARS ZIGGY STARDUB UK TOUR
“Then we were Ziggy’s band…”
It’s no surprise that David Bowie was a fan of reggae (he singled out both Forces Of Victory by Linton Kwesi Johnson and Funky Kingston by Toots And The Maytals in a list of his favourite albums), and though we would never want to second guess him, we have a hunch he would have enjoyed Ziggy Stardub by @EasyStarAllStars.
Reading through comments on socials, it seems many of you have given the thumbs up to this tribute to Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust album since its release in April.
Issued via Easy Star Records the LP features guest appearances from Macy Gray, Maxi Priest, Steel Pulse, Fishbone, Alex Lifeson (Rush) among many others.
If you’re in the UK over the next couple of weeks, you can catch the band behind the record, the superb Easy Star All-Stars, live around England.
Check out the official Easy Star All-Stars page for tickets and their other tributes: https://easystar.com/artists/easy-star-all-stars/#ontour (Linktree in bio)
While you’re there check out the following videos:
“Five Years” by Easy Star All-Stars with Steel Pulse
“Moonage Daydream” by Easy Star All-Stars featuring Naomi Cowan and Alex Lifeson
“Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide” by Easy Star All-Stars featuring Macy Gray
#ZiggyStardub #EasyStarAllStars
EASY STAR ALL-STARS ZIGGY STARDUB UK TOUR
“Then we were Ziggy’s band…”
It’s no surprise that David Bowie was a fan of reggae (he singled out both Forces Of Victory by Linton Kwesi Johnson and Funky Kingston by Toots And The Maytals in a list of his favourite albums), and though we would never want to second guess him, we have a hunch he would have enjoyed Ziggy Stardub by @EasyStarAllStars.
Reading through comments on socials, it seems many of you have given the thumbs up to this tribute to Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust album since its release in April.
Issued via Easy Star Records the LP features guest appearances from Macy Gray, Maxi Priest, Steel Pulse, Fishbone, Alex Lifeson (Rush) among many others.
If you’re in the UK over the next couple of weeks, you can catch the band behind the record, the superb Easy Star All-Stars, live around England.
Check out the official Easy Star All-Stars page for tickets and their other tributes: https://easystar.com/artists/easy-star-all-stars/#ontour (Linktree in bio)
While you’re there check out the following videos:
“Five Years” by Easy Star All-Stars with Steel Pulse
“Moonage Daydream” by Easy Star All-Stars featuring Naomi Cowan and Alex Lifeson
“Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide” by Easy Star All-Stars featuring Macy Gray
#ZiggyStardub #EasyStarAllStars
EASY STAR ALL-STARS ZIGGY STARDUB UK TOUR
“Then we were Ziggy’s band…”
It’s no surprise that David Bowie was a fan of reggae (he singled out both Forces Of Victory by Linton Kwesi Johnson and Funky Kingston by Toots And The Maytals in a list of his favourite albums), and though we would never want to second guess him, we have a hunch he would have enjoyed Ziggy Stardub by @EasyStarAllStars.
Reading through comments on socials, it seems many of you have given the thumbs up to this tribute to Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust album since its release in April.
Issued via Easy Star Records the LP features guest appearances from Macy Gray, Maxi Priest, Steel Pulse, Fishbone, Alex Lifeson (Rush) among many others.
If you’re in the UK over the next couple of weeks, you can catch the band behind the record, the superb Easy Star All-Stars, live around England.
Check out the official Easy Star All-Stars page for tickets and their other tributes: https://easystar.com/artists/easy-star-all-stars/#ontour (Linktree in bio)
While you’re there check out the following videos:
“Five Years” by Easy Star All-Stars with Steel Pulse
“Moonage Daydream” by Easy Star All-Stars featuring Naomi Cowan and Alex Lifeson
“Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide” by Easy Star All-Stars featuring Macy Gray
#ZiggyStardub #EasyStarAllStars
EASY STAR ALL-STARS ZIGGY STARDUB UK TOUR
“Then we were Ziggy’s band…”
It’s no surprise that David Bowie was a fan of reggae (he singled out both Forces Of Victory by Linton Kwesi Johnson and Funky Kingston by Toots And The Maytals in a list of his favourite albums), and though we would never want to second guess him, we have a hunch he would have enjoyed Ziggy Stardub by @EasyStarAllStars.
Reading through comments on socials, it seems many of you have given the thumbs up to this tribute to Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust album since its release in April.
Issued via Easy Star Records the LP features guest appearances from Macy Gray, Maxi Priest, Steel Pulse, Fishbone, Alex Lifeson (Rush) among many others.
If you’re in the UK over the next couple of weeks, you can catch the band behind the record, the superb Easy Star All-Stars, live around England.
Check out the official Easy Star All-Stars page for tickets and their other tributes: https://easystar.com/artists/easy-star-all-stars/#ontour (Linktree in bio)
While you’re there check out the following videos:
“Five Years” by Easy Star All-Stars with Steel Pulse
“Moonage Daydream” by Easy Star All-Stars featuring Naomi Cowan and Alex Lifeson
“Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide” by Easy Star All-Stars featuring Macy Gray
#ZiggyStardub #EasyStarAllStars
GOT YOUR ZIGGY MOTION PICTURE?
“Just turn on with me and you’re not alone…”
You may have noticed that Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars: The Motion Picture is released today.
Have you succumbed to Ziggy’s charms buy buying one of the formats?
Check them out here : https://lnk.to/Ziggy50 (Linktree in bio)
#Ziggy50 #BowieHammersmithOdeon50th #ZiggyMoPi
Jeffrey Mayer captured this magnificent image during the Miracle Goodnight video shoot in 1993.
#BowieReflections
FAVOURITE BOWIE VIDEO POLL RESULTS – THE WINNER
“I’m happy, hope you’re happy too…”
No surprises with this result. You have voted the David Bowie and David Mallet directed Ashes To Ashes your favourite Bowie video.
Hats off to David Mallet for achieving nine entries (more than a third of the winning videos), and they’re all in the top 20.
See the comments section for the full top 26.
FOOTNOTE: Asking you for just five videos was an impossible task to set, so here is the top five of the author of this piece…
#01 – Boys Keep Swinging
#02 – ★ Blackstar
#03 – Where Are We Now?
#04 – Little Wonder
#05 – The Jean Genie
You probably agree that the five videos you chose could easily have been five other Bowie videos that were equally pleasing. So, thanks for rising to the challenge.
#MyFavouriteBowieVideos
WHO WAS THAT ZIGGY HUGGER?
“The boy in the bright blue jeans, Jumped up on the stage…”
You may have noticed the Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide 4K video (from the Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars: The Motion Picture) posted on YouTube in celebration of the UK chart listings last Friday. * https://youtu.be/lJQf-gcG-g4 (Linktree in bio)
Is the lad that rushed the stage to give Bowie a hug in the closing moments a reader of this page? If so, please make yourself known in the comments section.
* There are many versions of the Official UK album charts these days. Thanks for putting the Ziggy MoPi 50th Anniversary high in them.
Official Soundtrack Albums Chart – #1
Official Scottish Albums Chart – #3
Official Physical Albums Chart – #4
Official Vinyl Albums Chart – #4
Official Record Store Chart – #7
Official Albums Chart Top 100 – #10
The album is also enjoying Top 20 success in many official European charts too.
Go here for all 50th anniversary edition formats: https://lnk.to/Ziggy50 (Linktree in bio)
#Ziggy50 #BowieHammersmithOdeon50th #ZiggyMoPi #MysteryZiggyHugger
REMINDER: TONY VISCONTI AT ROUGH TRADE EAST TOMORROW
“We spoke of was and when…”
A quick reminder that there are still some tickets left for @tonyvisconti in conversation with his good friend and associate Dr @leah.kardos at Rough Trade East in London tomorrow evening.
The talk will be followed by a signing by Tony and tickets and more information can be found here: https://bit.ly/TVandLKatRoughTradeEast (Linktree in bio)
This event celebrates the release of the compilation ‘Produced By Tony Visconti’ released on 20th October via Demon.
FOOTNOTE: The image here is of David and Tony at an awards ceremony in February 1981. Bowie was awarded Best Male Singer in The British Rock And Pop Awards for 1980, having enjoyed huge recent success with the Bowie/Visconti produced Scary Monsters album.
#BowieVisconti
FAVOURITE BOWIE VIDEO POLL RESULTS – PART FOUR
“That weren’t no DJ, That was hazy cosmic jive…”
Today’s video grab is from another David Mallet directed video, the 1979 single from Lodger, DJ.
Here’s the fourth lot of five in our countdown to #1, as voted for by you.
#07 – DJ 1979
#08 – The Hearts Filthy Lesson 1995
#09 – Lazarus 2016
#10 – The Stars Are Out Tonight 2013
#11 – The Next Day 2013
Tune in tomorrow for Part Five.
#MyFavouriteBowieVideos
WHERE WERE YOU ON 8TH SEPTEMBER 2003?
“Welcome to Reality…”
Next Friday the 8th September sees the 20th anniversary of Bowie’s live Reality album showcase in London and broadcast to cinemas around the globe.
Were you at the show at Hammersmith’s Riverside or did you watch it at a cinema? Tell us about it in comments.
#RealityAtRiverside
PIN UPS 50th ANNIVERSARY HALF SPEED MASTERED LP DUE NEXT MONTH
“I couldn’t sleep last night…”
DAVID BOWIE – PIN UPS 50th ANNIVERSARY HALF SPEED MASTERED LP
SPECIAL VINYL RELEASE TO CELEBRATE THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF PIN UPS TO BE RELEASED 20th OCTOBER 2023: https://lnk.to/dbpu50 (Linktree in bio)
October 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of David Bowie’s classic collection of cover songs, the #1 album Pin Ups, originally released 19th October 1973.
Recorded at Château d’Hérouville in France, a studio to which Bowie would later return to record Low, Pin Ups was a collection of cover songs paying tribute to bands and artists that had inspired Bowie and that he had seen at various clubs in London in the mid to late 60s. Artists he covered for the album included The Yardbirds, The Kinks, Pink Floyd, The Who, The Pretty Things, The Easybeats and more.
Just one single was issued from the album in the UK, a version of The McCoys’ song Sorrow, which later enjoyed wider recognition via The Mersey’s version which peaked at #4 in the UK.
The Bowie version reached #3 in the UK and the single also gave him his first #1 anywhere in the world when it hit the top spot in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
On 20th October 2023, one day after its Golden Jubilee, Pin Ups will be issued as a limited edition 50th anniversary half-speed mastered LP. This new pressing was cut on a customised late Neumann VMS80 lathe with fully recapped electronics from 192kHz restored masters of the original master tapes, with no additional processing on transfer. John Webber cut the half-speed at AIR Studios.
#BowiePinUps50
