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’
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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.”
/REMAKE//REMODEL///RELIVE – HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID BOWIE [2023]
In astronomy we allow for the shift of light years to bring images of stars and planets to us long after they have faded and completely disappeared from our little universe. We witness these events of the past as if they were occurring in the present day but really we are catching the aftermath of their glow – having drifted beyond the half-way point of their explosive birth. So it has been with future-history of David Bowie, the original pop starman whose birthday it is today (the same day, though not the year, as the original king of rock and roll, Elvis Presley 8/1/1935) begging the question – where is his legacy now?
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