Posted in Events dear boy. Events at 19:21 on 19 January 2016
Well. This is getting scary.
Lemmy, David Bowie, Alan Rickman and now Glenn Frey all within a few days/weeks.
It makes you wonder who’ll be next.
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman; 21/2/1946–14/1/2016.
Glenn Lewis Frey; 6/11/1948–18/1/2016.
So it goes.
Posted in BBC, Events dear boy. Events at 22:00 on 27 October 2013
Lou Reed has died.
Member of The Velvet Underground (of whom it was said that not many people bought their records but everyone who did rushed out immediately and formed a band) and inspirer of David Bowie plus countless others.
He became well-known in the UK due to the song Walk on the Wild Side becoming a hit. Much, much later Perfect Day was turned into a magnificent BBC promo video.
I suspect everyone will be posting one or other of the above two tracks so here’s another of his better known songs.
Lou Reed: Satellite of Love
Lewis Allan “Lou” Reed:- 2/3/1942 – 7/10/2013. So it goes.
Posted in 1970s, Music, Reelin' In The Years at 19:27 on 22 May 2013
Two days in a row. Yesterday Ray Manzarek, today Trevor Bolder, bassist for David Bowie in the breakthrough years and sometime member of Uriah Heep and Wishbone Ash. It makes you dread waking up in the morning.
The track I’ve chosen isn’t one of the most played from the Ziggy era but it shows off Bolder’s bass playing.
Trevor Bolder; 09/06/1950 – 21/05/2103. So it goes.
David Bowie: John I’m Only Dancing
Posted in 1970s, Music, Reelin' In The Years at 12:00 on 9 November 2012
Yesterday at school one of the pupils mentioned a road safety programme called, “Safe Drive, Stay Alive.” My mind immediately flashed to, “Don’t want to stay alive, when you’re twenty five,” and the unforgettably named Mott The Hoople with this David Bowie song.
Mott The Hoople: All The Young Dudes
And here’s Bowie’s version.
David Bowie: All The Young Dudes
Posted in Lyrics, Politics at 19:00 on 13 April 2010
I caught the preamble to Call Me Dave’s launch of the Conservatives’ manifesto today. Over the PA they were playing all sorts of songs with “change,” “changes” or “better” in their lyrics – except of course D:Ream.
Did the Tories have permission to do this?
One of the songs was Bowie’s Changes, which contains the line “Don’t want to be a richer man.”
I don’t suppose Dave does: he comes from money and took good care to marry even more.
The song also has, “You’ve left us up to our necks in it.” Was this a prediction, Dave?
Look out you rock ‘n’ rollers.
