When Bowie on his soulful s***

yea its one of his very best songs
funny enough he didn't include it on the iselect best of album, but he picked win at least

i'm pretty sure i've heard him call it his best song tho. I remember him doing some remix of it too a couple decades on, so he must have had some love for it

appeared on the changesbowie album in 1990

Also got hip hop history with hov, ye and public enemy

yea @Ithaka made a post about all the samples a couple of pages back

great post from @ithaka

thank you young prince

Sorry to me it’s sitting at bottom next to Laughing Gnome

Thank you I try lotta exclusive work put into this thread

Mmmm

Blackstar
Station To Station
Low
Heathen and Earthling close

But rn I have Young Americans on my mind

Are these in a book you can buy?

Yessir, easy to find on google only posted a few of ones I love there’s way more where that came from

January, 1973

Billboard ad for the new David Bowie single

Not that it’s anything fascinating but I’m always curious for material like that, as in like that’s how they promoted music back then and that’s how Bowie caught someone’s attention and just the creativity behind it on how they want to present it and aiming to whom

Funny thing since we just touched on DD and January 1973 marks the first recording of Aladdin Sane album: did you know the first version of 1984 dates way back at this time? Bowie tested a first take of it during Aladdin Sand sessions, still hasn’t been heard tho

I’d love to hear it as, not only when he finished it and dropped it its disco flavor was ahead of the time I think but even more so for 1973, unless the Aladdin Sane work in progress one wasn’t disco? then I really wanna hear it!

@rwina

First Space Oddity tv live performance.

One of the last Space Oddity live performance.

Here’s an interesting odd one, Bowie rerecorded and shot a video for the song in 1979, a decade later after the original:

Love this.

THAT BILLBOARD AD

its kinda crazy that would still go hard today 47 years layer

it makes me sad theres not much high res footage of ziggy

Bowie and his longtime producer Tony Visconti (1969), earliest photo known of them together.

In April 1967 Tony Visconti, a back then fresh 22yo bassist from Brooklyn, came to the UK illegally to work as an apprentice record producer. He managed to convince Customs that he was traveling with four guitars because he was a dedicated vacationing musician who had to practice on each guitar daily, looks like it paid off!

Tony Visconti met David Bowie around the summer of that year? at the office of David Platz: Bowie’s song publisher. David Platz set the meeting feeling the two young artists might click as Tony was already known by then as being able to work around “hard to understand” artists, see Marc Bolan whose band Tyrannosaurus Rex, Tony would soon convince Cordell to sign, none the less!

The first thing that caught Tony’s eyes was that Bowie had different-colored eyes. The two talked about US music for hours (both were fans of Ken Nordine‘s Word Jazz LPs), went for a walk in Chelsea, saw “Knife in the Water” by Roman Polanski together and had become fast friends by the end of the day, so naturally when David went in to record a new prospective single for Deram by the end of the summer, he asked Visconti if he’d like to arrange and produce it, which Tony jumped on the opportunity.

The song is a rock’n’roll very Stones infused jam titled “Let Me Sleep Beside You”, in hindsight on of his best Deram years single, Tony pushed Bowie to drop it as a single, complimenting him on how it’s “American sounding”, this was when Bowie tempted to be rock god s***figure as the video showcases it, before embarking on the Ziggy Stardust persona which birthed the Bowie we know.

Deram turned the single down, that is of course until Bowie hit it big in 1969 with Space Oddity, only the they dropped it to cash in.

Tony and Bowie during the recording sessions for The Man Who Sold The World, 1970.

The rest is history needless to say, Tony went on to produce 11 albums out of the 27 albums Bowie has released, the list includes (chronological order):

Space Oddity (1969)
The Man Who Sold The World (1970)
Young Americans (1975)
Low (1977)
“Heroes” (1977)
Lodger (1979)
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980)
Heathen (2002)
Reality (2003)
The Next Day (2013)
and their final goodbye
Blackstar (2016)

also the lives: David Live (1974) and Stage (1978) also the Glastonbury 2000 in 2018 if it matters, posthumous speaking wise.

Tony and Bowie during the recording sessions for The Next Day (2013), the last photo of them together released to the public.

David Bowie and Tony Visconti in Berlin, 1976.

Now look at this holy grail of a photo, ain’t that a bunch of mfs looking like they bout to produce and shoot the cheapest dirty nasty ass black market p***o ever

lmao these mfs really woke up and were like dam I look good today tho

From 76 79 & 80 interviews.

Going to listen to these this week 😎

why bowie looking like a redneck

country mixtape soon b howdy partnurr

the rise and fall of ziggy stardust and the lumberjacks from mars

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