This is David Bowie at his brilliant, bewildering, bedazzling best. The airy guitar hook channels long summers and happy evenings. It’s so catchy, that Bowie…
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11/03/2021: “Velvet Goldmine” by David Bowie
“Velvet Goldmine” was recorded in the early 70s as part of the Ziggy Stardust sessions. It was dropped from the album, but luckily, surfaced in 1975…
21/11/2020: “Fashion” by David Bowie
This is typical trailblazing David Bowie. It’s simultaneously entrenched in its time, and beyond it. There’s just enough weirdness to mark it indelibly as a…
03/10/2019: “Lazarus” by David Bowie
David Bowie’s last album is one of the greatest and most poignant explorations of mortality in music, on a par with Freddie Mercury’s last songs….
03/07/2019: “Nightclubbing” by Grace Jones
“Nightclubbing” started life as a song written by Iggy Pop in collaboration with David Bowie. It’s a very cool song, with a distinctive drum machine…
18/03/2019: “Young Americans” by David Bowie
One of David Bowie’s phases was a soul phase, inspired by Philadelphia soul music. America is the home of soul music, of course, so this…
01/10/2018: “Stay” by David Bowie
David Bowie has gone through a fair few phases in his time. Starting with his rock and spiralling though all sorts of genres into experimental …
09/06/2018: “Cat People” by David Bowie
I didn’t know whether to choose the original 1982 soundtrack version produced by disco legend Giorgio Moroder, or the 1983 album version off Let’s Dance, which features…
29/06/2018: “The Passenger” by Iggy Pop
The guitarist on here is Ricky Gardiner, and the song also features piano and backing vocals by David Bowie. In fact, the song was partly…