David Bowie RIP

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Ah yes. I see you are too young to know Bye Bye Birdie

I'm not too young, but I din'nt know it either. I had to look it up. . .

[Beef Oven!]

Ah yes. I see you are too young to know Bye Bye Birdie

Seems I would have been about 3 when this film was made, so older siblings or my parents would have taken me to see it at the cinema.

[cloughie]

Seems I would have been about 3 when this film was made, so older siblings or my parents would have taken me to see it at the cinema.

...and I thought you were referring to the song which the Moodies used to finish their act with!

[Beef Oven!]

...and I thought you were referring to the song which the Moodies used to finish their act with!

Happily, I have no idea of any moody set-lists

[cloughie]

Happily, I have no idea of any moody set-lists

Try this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLy2BcvsfBg

[kernelbogey]

Bowie at the BBC/David Bowie:Five Years (BBC4 - 13.1.17)

Watching these two films now and bumping this thread. I will add to this thread after seeing the second film.

[Edit 23.53]
I bought Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars LP in 1972 after hearing it in a pizza restaurant in the King's Road (vivid memory!), and played it a lot. Then somehow lost touch with Bowie more or less until his death. I had detached myself in the later seventies and eighties onwards from the whole pop-rock-blues etc scene (for a variety of reasons) and missed out on a lot. I was vaguely aware of Bowie off in the distance somewhere repeatedly reinventing himself.

These two films (I have only seen the first 45 minutes, two years, of the Five Years film - hoping I can watch the rest on iPlayer) but the two films have brought Bowie and the years of him that I missed to vivid life. I strongly recommend them to anyone interested in Bowie. The reinventions are explained with his wonderful intelligence and articulacy.

What an extraordinary creature he was - I use the word advisedly - a remarkably beautiful man and yet somehow always on the edge of the androgenous, even in later years....

[jayne lee wilson]

I've recorded this and hope to see and hear it soon.... (but tonight my suppertime treat was... The Witch, which was slow-burn but also very - whoa! Look away now! Etc).

I was aware of Bowie's Ziggy albums, borrowed after they came out though... then Diamond Dogs, Young Americans, then.... a gap somewhere, then, very into Pop in the 80s I didn't buy Let's Dance but heard it everywhere... China Girl my favourite as for many on the dance floor or not....

Ashes to Ashes, Under Pressure.... classics always "somewhere in the back of my mind." Drifted away from Bowie, as from Pop and Rap, after that....

[MickyD]

Here's a rather surprising duet - recorded at ATV Elstree studios in the 70s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiXjbI3kRus

[kernelbogey]

Here's a rather surprising duet - recorded at ATV Elstree studios in the 70s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiXjbI3kRus

This was in one of the two films - I found it touching.

[Richard Barrett]

For me the passage of a year has done little to diminish the sense of loss on the one hand, and admiration for the work on the other. I've found myself spending much more time with some albums than I did when they came out. It's such a shame that there's so little to listen to from the first decade of this century. Heathen in particular is a brilliant piece of work throughout, and one I've been returning to frequently, especially its dark and enigmatic first song "Sunday" which has been in my thoughts very often.

[Serial_Apologist]

Drifted away from Bowie, as from Pop and Rap, after that....

.................................................. ....................Bruckner???

[EdgeleyRob]

For me the passage of a year has done little to diminish the sense of loss on the one hand, and admiration for the work on the other. I've found myself spending much more time with some albums than I did when they came out. It's such a shame that there's so little to listen to from the first decade of this century. Heathen in particular is a brilliant piece of work throughout, and one I've been returning to frequently, especially its dark and enigmatic first song "Sunday" which has been in my thoughts very often.

[Radio64]

For me the passage of a year has done little to diminish the sense of loss on the one hand, and admiration for the work on the other. I've found myself spending much more time with some albums than I did when they came out. It's such a shame that there's so little to listen to from the first decade of this century. Heathen in particular is a brilliant piece of work throughout, and one I've been returning to frequently, especially its dark and enigmatic first song "Sunday" which has been in my thoughts very often.

I'm also a fan of Heathen, which i discovered about three years ago (after The Next Day came out). It's a pity much of his 90's and 2000's album (pre-TND) don't get much attention.

[Beef Oven!]

I'm also a fan of Heathen, which i discovered about three years ago (after The Next Day came out). It's a pity much of his 90's and 2000's album (pre-TND) don't get much attention.

Heathen’s very good. I only discovered it fairly recently when I took out my Apple Music streaming subscription a couple of years ago, maybe. I’m guilty of pretty much turning a blind eye to his 90s and 2000 work, although to be fair, some of it is not that strong. I’m in the Ziggy-Berlin-Monsters brigade, for whom Let’s Dance was the end of the journey, more or less.

[Richard Barrett]

I’m in the Ziggy-Berlin-Monsters brigade, for whom Let’s Dance was the end of the journey, more or less.

Apart from Heathen I have a lot of time for Earthling, Outside, Buddha of Suburbia, Black Tie White Noise, quite a lot of the Tin Machine stuff and of course Blackstar. I don't think any of the 80s/90s albums consists completely of duds, although I did think so at the time.

Personal note for those who might be interested: my new piece for orchestra everything has changed/nothing has changed (title from the lyrics of the aforementioned "Sunday"), to be premiered early next month, is a memorial homage to Bowie. Originally I was intending that it should contain material from his work but ultimately that idea fell by the wayside, mainly because it felt too easy a way to do things.