David Bowie In 1983 – The Blond Ambition – Part 2
Part two of the Mojo feature…
Part two of the Mojo feature…
A new article in the current issue of Mojo mag featuring Bowie’s thirst for mainstream success under the Serious Moonlight…
This time, as about as cleaner/clearer copy of the 1983 Bologna gig as you’re ever gonna get. No Celebrate, sadly…but pretty much all of New Gold Dream bar Somebody Up There Likes You and King Is White And In The crowd (geez, Jim loved a long song title back then! Lol). I was hoping to…
OMFG! All hail to “icontethefly” for a new, cleaner upload of the Disco Ring performance of New Gold Dream. I STILL don’t know what that action he does is at 2 min 23 seconds…but I love it! Lol ENJOY PEOPLES!
I think I have seen bits of this footage before…but not this particular clip. Odd kinda version of King Is White…it’s a bit…”busy”… but hey…boy be looking good (queue endless waggling of eyebrows).
How I started my new year…
I don’t think this interview could start with a more delicious mental image…
I must get me a copy of this magazine…it’s called Chart Beat. Can’t say I’ve ever heard of it. This is inside issue number 19…early 1983. I detect a visit to eBay at some point in the future…
A Sunday, pre-Christmas gig – PAKCED with songs from the yet-to-be-released Sparkle In The Rain. Imagine them doing that now? Us getting gigs with half of Walk Between Worlds airing BEFORE release date? Okay…it could be argued they did that slightly with Acoustic…but nothing on the album was new material, so it doesn’t count. A…
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Just over 12 months from their previous appearance on The Tube, Simple Minds return. It’s not the best quality footage…but it expresses the dynamism of the band. My favourite part is when Jim’s mic is obviously starting to give him problems. Instead of stopping proceedings like a lot of other performers would, he just throws…
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