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Reissues: Word On a Wing
A good place as any to close the “reissues” series, which I hope you’ve enjoyed or tolerated. This is one of the essential Bowie songs of the Seventies, and as such it’s weird, beautiful and a touch...
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Heat
Heat. 1. Mirror Contract The photograph shows a room in a flat in West Berlin—155 Hauptstraße, Schöneberg. David Bowie lies on his side on his bed. Thirty years old, his face is that of a beautiful...
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Bowie: Object/ David Bowie Is…
I’ve still not read an autobiography by a rock person that had the same degree of presumptuousness and arrogance that a rock & roll record used to have. So I’ve decided to write my autobiography...
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Sue (Or In a Season of Crime)
Sue (Or In a Season of Crime) (single). Sue (Or In a Season of Crime) (single edit, video). Sue (Or In a Season of Crime) (Blackstar remake). 1. Allegro con brio Imagine: David Bowie wondering whether...
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‘Tis a Pity She Was a Whore
‘Tis a Pity She Was a Whore (Bowie home demo, single). ‘Tis a Pity She Was a Whore (Blackstar remake). A man of property and standing, believing his new wife virtuous, is deceived. She grows sick,...
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Lazarus
Lazarus (Michael C. Hall, Lazarus stage performance, 2015). Lazarus (Hall, The Late Show, 2015). Lazarus (Bowie). Lazarus (Bowie, video edit). Lazarus (Hall, Lazarus soundtrack). Lazarus (Hall, live,...
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When I Met You
When I Met You (Michael C. Hall and Krystina Alabado, Lazarus perf., 2015). When I Met You (Hall and Alabado, Lazarus cast recording). When I Met You (Bowie). At the end of Lazarus, Thomas Jerome...
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Girl Loves Me
Girl Loves Me. The Blackstar sessions of early January 2015 were devoted to revisits (“’Tis a Pity She Was a Whore”) and to most of Bowie’s Lazarus songs. The next round, in the first week of...
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Tin Machine II at 30
Tin Machine II, released thirty years ago today, is a strange thing to commemorate. You may recall that it got little respect at the time of its release (its legendary Melody Maker pan ended with...
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Rebel Rebel (Revised)
Announcing: Rebel Rebel (Revised). Or maybe Rebel Rebel Again? Rebel Rebel (Second Edition). Rebel Rebel in some form. Coming, via Repeater Books, in summer 2025. I’m about to send in the manuscript....
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