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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PRAYERS ON FIRE: NICK CAVE AND THE BATTLE FOR TRUE FAITH
The songs of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds have long explored religion as a continued struggle between doubt, dogma and belief
INTERVIEW – Glenn Hendler on David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs
Glenn Hendler is the author of a 33 1/3 book on David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs album. This interview follows on from my initial Bowie book research; where I was able to ask Glenn about his listening experiences of Scary Monsters and his thoughts on crime, terror and thwarted love across Bowie’s discography.
INTERVIEW – BOWIE PHOTOGRAHPER – SUKITA
Masayoshi Sukita is a Japanese photographer, renowned for his rock and roll photography and his long and enduring friendship with David Bowie. As part of the research for my new book Silhouettes And Shadows, a deep dive into Bowie’s Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), I spoke to Sukita about the story behind his photographs that feature in the book.
Kingdom Come – David Bowie does Television
If heaven was ever a place on earth by 1980 David Bowie had yet to find it. Adopting “Kingdom Come” a song written by Tom Verlaine, as his chosen cover for Scary Monsters, Bowie elevates the lyrical struggle with God and the search for an afterlife into a new realm of spiritual angst.
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