ashes to ashes – Adam Steiner

SCREAM LIKE A BABY – DAVID BOWIE’S CLASH WITH TYRANNY

In the age of ICE abductions, very public assassinations and far-right marches in the UK, Scream Like A Baby returns with a vengeance as Bowie’s anthem against totalitarianism in all its forms. The song seems to tell a story of persecution and confinement but the details are shadowy, born of uncertainty like glimpses of lightContinueContinue reading “SCREAM LIKE A BABY – DAVID BOWIE’S CLASH WITH TYRANNY”

TEARS OF A CLOWN – DAVID BOWIE AND THE INFINITE MELANCHOLY OF SCARY MONSTERS

1980 would mark the year of one of Bowie’s most iconic looks, the pierrot clown that mixes joy with sadness, perhaps most well-known from the music video for ‘Ashes To Ashes’

INTERVIEW — CHUCK HAMMER – David Bowie Discovers The Sounds Of The Future

I speak to Chuck Hammer about his work on David Bowie’s Scary Monsters And Super Creeps album and his pioneering use of the guitar-synth.

INTERVIEW — CARLOS ALOMAR On Bowie, Songwriting, Buddhism and Fighting Back The Fear.

Ahead of his appearance at the 2024 David Bowie Convention in Liverpool, I talk to legendary guitarist Carlos Alomar. AS: What was the major creative shift when you were working with Bowie? CA: When I look back on our albums with Bowie, particularly the run of Station To Station, Low, ‘’Heroes’’, and Scary MonstersContinueContinue reading “INTERVIEW — CARLOS ALOMAR On Bowie, Songwriting, Buddhism and Fighting Back The Fear.”

FASHION – David Bowie’s Anthem To The Dancefloor Of Doomed Youth

Fashion plays with the extremes of political trends which by 1980 would enter a new radical phase with the arrival of Margaret Thatcher’s right-wing Conservative government. ICH BIN EIN LONDONER David Bowie’s 1976 return to Europe for his new Isolar Tour was set to be another great moment in his restlessly evolving musical career, insteadContinueContinue reading “FASHION – David Bowie’s Anthem To The Dancefloor Of Doomed Youth”