May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
The dancefloor. Frigging hell! Did Simple Minds know how to fill it back in the day. I guess they still do to be fair. But let us rewind back to 1979. Rockfield Studios in the Welsh countryside. Five young men from Glasgow are in the studio making the followup to their debut album. An album…
I’m always flicking through the pages of the music mags. Not much really has me stopping for too long. (Perhaps to my detriment? A slow reader’s curse that to be drawn in to read something, you REALLY have to grab their attention – going by my own experience anyway.) I suppose I am finding myself…
I was listening in to Gary Crowley on BBC Radio London and he brought up the topic of musical dinner guests. You could invite four guests, dead or alive, to dine with. You could also share what you’d make or serve them to eat. Gary’s own choice for guests were Nina Simone, John Lennon, Sly…
Today is the 40th anniversary of the release of the Lodger album by David Bowie. A rather jumbled up travelogue of an album. The travel theme running heavily through side A of the album with: Fantastic Voyage, African Night Flight, Move On, Yassassin (Turkish for Long Live) and Red Sails. Side B’s theme alters and…
I was feeling very tired still this morning, so I slept-in. While I slept the extra hour or so, I fell into a dream. I was going to a gig. And I was seeing David Bowie. The venue from the outside looked quite grand. One of those ornate old style theatres, you know. The stairwell…
I wish I was going! I really wish I was going to see Mott The Hoople at Barras on Easter Saturday… But I can’t afford to go… ???
A song from the year you were born. I had to think outside the box for this one. The Man Who Sold The World was originally released by David Bowie in 1970.
I never have much luck with shoes. Always getting blisters, etc, etc. But THESE are already on the #WANT list… https://twitter.com/streetfashion01/status/1109109898007232512?s=21 UPDATE: Much more detail on the Bowie Vans range can be viewed HERE
A short obit for Ken Pitt in this month’s Mojo magazine.
In part two of my conversation with Bruce, we discuss more on Life In A Day – namely the infamous Drury Lane gig as well as talk on the release of Chelsea Girl and the making of the video. We also discuss Real To Real Cacophony more in depth – from Arista’s dismay of its…
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