Discovery do have the Europe wide Olympic rights,

I downgraded my Virgin subscription at the start of the year & removed Eurosport (they’d lost most of the tennis coverage to Amazon) but signed up to their app when they were offering a discount (£20 for the ye […]

Bowie asked Luther Vandross if he could record his song Funky Music, changing the lyrics & the title to Fascination (“He didn’t want to be so presumptuous as to say ‘Funky Music’ since he was a rock artist” […]

I haven’t heard the 2007 remastered YA – I’ve got both my original 75 vinyl copy & the Ryko CD (and have listened to the Gouster mixes on YouTube) but I’m not sure whether a third version would encourage me to ap […]

I’ve always been a bit underwhelmed by Young Americans. Apart from the two singles that book end the album, the other tracks have never really “stuck” – a strange “dry” production, and an over prominent sax throu […]

Chick Corea seems to be having a lot of fun with Gary Burton here

The Guardian ran a “making of Pass the Dutchie” a few years ago & the keyboard player Michael Grant said

“Back then, I was too young to buy cars or houses. All I wanted was a BMX Super Burner bike. When the r […]

You beat me to it! So I’ll just have to go for this…with added Graham Gouldman

This is worth 20 mins of your time

Gloomy Sunday – also known as “the Hungarian Suicide Song”
I probably learnt that from a Fred Dellar column. Pretty much everybody here will have had some interaction with him or his work.
What a legacy!

This popped up on shuffle a few days ago. Live vocals to a prerecorded backing track inc a rolling pub piano solo.

One of my favourite songs…should’ve been a hit etc With a great solo.

Imagine the scene in Happy Valley Retirement Home as the residents all singalong with Ian Dury’s Plaistow Patricia.

Looking at Bowiegoldenyears.com, (a good site for in depth nerdery) it seems that the rebranding started in April 74, with the first release being the single of “Rock n Roll suicide” – which had been the final tra […]

Looking further into this. PinUps is only credited to Bowie on the cover (it works well from a design viewpoint) The spine & label on the original RCA version list him as David Bowie (although the label on the […]

This was Tony Defries idea, that a single word name would stand out – like Elvis, Garbo, Sinatra. And look good on headlines.

Having worked with Lindsay Kemp, the theatrical ambition was very much part of Bowie’s plans around this time.
George Tremlett says that with 1984, he was hoping to have the musical “staged in London then New Yor […]

As well as the planned 1984 musical, Bowie was also considering a Ziggy Stardust stage production. Rock n Roll with me & Rebel Rebel were written with this in mind.
It could have been the first “jukebox m […]

It was during that time, when Bowie & Jagger were hanging out, that they went to Ronnie Wood’s one night & recorded the rough of It’s only Rock n Roll
“Help me with this one. I’ve got this chorus & these verses” […]

“We’re the Goodies. How do you do”