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Wednesday, Jan 8 2020, 6AM
Hey Wednesday, welcome to The Morning Show... and David Bowie's birthday!!!
When performing the song live, Bowie would sometimes call out, “Oh, Rocket Man!”, possibly making a reference to his once good friend John. ‘Rocket Man’, was also produced by Gus Dudgeon (who produced ‘Space Oddity’ in ’69) in 1972. - bit.ly
This song can be seen as a sequel to Bowie's 1969 hit, "Space Oddity." RCA Records, released a promotional single in 1980 titled "The Continuing Story of Major Tom." On it, "Space Oddity" was mixed smoothly into "Ashes to Ashes," creating a nine-minute epic. The end of the first song meshed uncannily with the start of the second. It was as if that had been Bowie's intention all along. - n.pr
This is a sequel to Bowie's 1969 song "Space Oddity," and continues the story of Major Tom. In this song, having determined that Major Tom is, in fact, sober, Earth decides to bring Tom home. However, just as he is about to turn on the thrusters and jet down to Earth, he cuts off communication with the line "give my wife my love" and turns off the power to the ship. It is assumed that, sadly, Tom died in the process of re-entry, but in fact he has faked his death so he can return to the depths of space, which he now considers his home.
Blackstar (★) is Bowie's twenty-fifth and final studio album. It was released worldwide on January 8th, 2016 (four years ago today!), coinciding with Bowie's 69th birthday.
Andrew Patrick Wood aka "Landrew the Love Child," the lead singer for Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone, was born on this day in 1966. He died in Seattle on March 19, 1990 at the age of 24, having overdosed on heroin. This song made Rolling Stone's list of "The Fifty Best Songs Over Seven Minutes Long".
Shawn Smith said Prince was his biggest inspiration. “Prince is kind of the rock in the center of it all. That’s where I really learned.” Smith said that he focused on Prince when he was learning to write songs, adding, “Everything I learned as a songwriter in terms of structure I kind of got from Prince, because he writes in a very specific way, you know, verse/chorus/verse/chorus, he has these things.” - bit.ly
Prince covers Radiohead!!! Thom Yorke heard about Prince’s performance from a text message and thought it was “hilarious.” Yorke laughed when his bandmate, guitarist Ed O’Brien, said the blocking had prevented him from seeing Prince’s version of their song. Yorke said: “Well, tell him to unblock it. It’s our … song.” - bit.ly
Hey Mike, thanks for the request, and Happy New Year!
"Let me ask you one question/ Is your money that good? / Will it buy you forgiveness / Do you think that it could? / I think you will find / When your death takes its toll / All the money you made / Will never buy back your soul..."
"Oh I've just come from the land of the sun / From a war that must be won / In the name of truth / With our soldiers so brave / Your freedom we will save / With our rifles and grenades / And some help from god..."
By request - thanks! Did you see the Australian documentary "Mystify" about Michael Hutchence last night? Apprently, it only played for 1 night across the U.S. - maybe it will get a wider release at some point?
Peter Gabriel released a covers album called Scratch My Back, and the artists he covered agreed to return the favor by recording one of Gabriel's songs - except David Bowie. But Gabriel still wanted to cover Bowie's hit Heroes so he got around it by asking Brian Eno, who co-wrote the song, to take part.
This instrumental cover of the David Bowie classic “Life on Mars” is not the first time Reznor and Ross have covered Bowie. Nine Inch Nails covered his Blackstar song “I Can’t Give Everything Away.” Reznor collaborated with David Bowie on the 1997 single “I’m Afraid of Americans.”
Apparently, Bowie and Freddie Mercury first met a dozen years before they recorded the song. In 1969, Freddie Mercury fitted David Bowie for a pair of boots during his day job working on a boot stall in Kensington Market. - bit.ly
Queen's Live Aid performance has become the stuff of legend. You can see it here: www.youtube.com
Thanks for the request, Ian. You are not alone.
Not surprisingly, in a BBC poll in 2013 Bowie was voted the best-dressed Brit in history! He won 48.5 per cent, beating Elizabeth I into second place. - bit.ly
Bowie described this Eddie Cochran-inspired single in a 1987 interview as "a piece of sexist rock 'n roll. [laughs] It's about picking up birds. It's not very cerebral, that piece." - bit.ly
From the new album, Miss Anthropocene, due out on February 21, 2020. - grimesmusic.com
Poliça plays The Neptune Theatre on Thursday, April 16, 2020. Info here: www.stgpresents.org
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This is listed among the 10 most collectable Radiohead vinyl editions and features a photo of the face of US ex vice president Dick Cheney. - bit.ly
This is listed among the 10 most collectable Radiohead vinyl editions and features a photo of the face of US ex vice president Dick Cheney. - bit.ly
Co-written by Brian Eno, this track finds David Bowie in the grips of paranoia thanks to a guy named Jonny, whose propensity for violence and insatiable lust for material possessions frightens the singer. Jonny is a satirical representation of a stereotypical American obsessed with capitalist culture.
"We found your weakness and it's right outside your door, now testify" - www.youtube.com
Chuck D of Public Enemy explained to Melody Maker in 1991: "'Shut 'Em Down' is about major corporations like Nike taking profits from the black community, but not giving anything back, never opening businesses in black areas. And it's saying that the best way to boycott a business is to start your own." - bit.ly
“Cuffs are ready ... Get out there and vote,” Ice Cube tweeted - twitter.com
"Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes / Turn and face the strange..."
"Stop your fooling around / Time you straighten right out / Better think of your future / Else you'll wind up in jail..." - www.youtube.com
Dave Wakeling explained, "The actual hook line itself was just a dirty joke, I just thought it was hilarious that you could get in a song: 'save it – comma – for later – F-E-double L-A-T-O-R.' So I thought it'd be really neat to get that in a song and everybody would be singing it. I didn't know it was going to be a joke that lasted for 30 years." - www.youtube.com
David Bowie performed this Simon & Garfunkel cover to open The Concert for New York City in October 2001. He sat on the floor, center stage, with a microphone and a Suzuki Omnichord. - bit.ly
Happy 27th birthday to First Aid Kit's Klara Söderberg! Here's the video of First Aid Kit performing "America" live in the KEXP studio in 2012: www.youtube.com
Annie recorded this haunting cover of Neil Young's classic folk song for her covers album, Medusa in 1995. It was later used in the 1999 movie American Beauty.
The song comes from behind-the-scenes of a huge benefit concert for Queen singer Freddie Mercury who had died at the result of AIDS not long before. The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness was held on Easter Monday, 20 April 1992 at Wembley Stadium in London, England for an audience of around 72,000. The concert was produced for television by Ray Burdis, directed by David Mallet and broadcast live on television and radio to 76 countries around the world, with an audience of up to one billion… a billion. The concert was conducted in tribute to Queen’s lead vocalist, Freddie Mercury, who had died of AIDS on 24 November 1991. All profits found their way to specific AIDS charities.
More from the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert!!! www.youtube.com
On the surface, this song is about dancing with a lover, but according to Nile Rodgers, there's a deeper meaning. He told Mojo: "When David wrote those lyrics, he was talking about the dance that people do in life; the conceptual dance of not being honest. He sings, 'put on your red shoes and dance the blues.' Like you're pretending to be happy but you're sad." - bit.ly
This is Bowie's tribute to the Velvet Underground, and the song purposefully imitates the New York band's sound. Lou Reed performed this with Bowie at his 50th birthday party in New York in January 1997. - bit.ly
Today would have been David Bowie's 73rd birthday! Here's the official video for this song with a fabulous name: www.youtube.com
That's today's The Morning Show and Troy is up next!
