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Peter Murphy, the former front man of Bauhaus, was heavily influenced by David Bowie. In an interview with Spin Magazine, he says, “The Man Who Sold the World was the first true goth record. Listen to it.” www.spin.com
Mike Score of Flock of Seagulls says that his distinctive haircut came about when trying to style his hair like David Bowie's character Ziggy Stardust.
Happy Intergalactic Bowie Day on KEXP. Two of the most influential musicians of all time, David Bowie and Elvis, were born on this day. blog.kexp.org
Warszawa was co-written with Brian Eno. Watch this video depiction of the song's creation. www.stereogum.com
Cracked Actor is about an aging Hollywood star and is filled with references to drugs and sex. The opening lines reference falling from his "Hollywood Highs": "I've come on a few years from my Hollywood Highs, The best of the last, the cleanest star they ever had"
This song refers to the prediction of a lot of drunken fighting after the 11pm closing times for pubs in the UK.
Suffragette City, originally released on the 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, has been covered numerous times, including by Alice in Chains, Boy George, Red Hot Chili Peppers and numerous others.
Ty Segall will be playing the first LIVE set at the KEXP's New Home on Thursday January 21st at 1:30 PM. He'll be playing at the Neptune that night. www.stgpresents.org
Nite Flights was written by Scott Walker and released by his group the Walker Brothers as the title track of their album in 1978. David Bowie was the first to cover the song for his 1993 album Black Tie White Noise.
See Talk Talk play Give it Up Live from Hammersmith Odeon in 1986. www.youtube.com. The song originally appeared in that year on the album The Colour of Spring.
Watch the video for Ready for the Floor: www.youtube.com
The Scissor Sisters teamed with Franz Ferdinand and covered David Bowie's Suffragette City at the 2005 V Festival. www.davidbowie.com
Teenage Wildlife comes in at number 8 on Rolling Stone's "20 Insanely Great David Bowie Songs Only Hardcore Fans Know" www.rollingstone.com
Watch the video for Placebo's "Without You I'm Nothing" featuring David Bowie. www.youtube.com
See David Bowie and Arcade Fire perform Wake Up: www.youtube.com
Cactus was originally released by the Pixies in 1987 on the album Surfer Rosa.
A cover version of Queen and David Bowie's song Under the Pressure by the North Carolina Band Crooked Fingers.
Station to Station features David Bowie's character the Thin White Duke. The album cover features a still from Nicolas Roeg's movie The Man Who Fell to Earth which stars Bowie. The song was originally recorded by Johnny Mathis for the 1957 film Wild Is the Wind and was also recorded twice by Nina Simone.
Read about how Kendrick Lamar has influenced David Bowie's new album Black Star on Rolling Stone. From producer Tony Visconti: "We were listening to a lot of Kendrick Lamar. We wound up with nothing like that, but we loved the fact Kendrick was so open-minded and he didn't do a straight-up hip-hop record. He threw everything on there, and that's exactly what we wanted to do. The goal, in many, many ways, was to avoid rock & roll." www.rollingstone.com
Happy Intergalactic Bowie Day! This song is from David Bowie's new album Blackstar, released today on his 69th birthday.
According to saxophonist Donny McCaslin who plays on Blackstar, "when describing one of the first songs we recorded, ‘Somewhere’, David referenced the Boards Of Canada song ‘Alpha And Omega’ as an approach. www.factmag.com
Read a review of "Dollar Days" on Pitchfork by Mike Powell: pitchfork.com "For all David Bowie’s sleek, fashion-forward turns over the years, he always comes crawling back to ballads: Big, theatrical songs that luxuriate in sadness and turn loss into a kind of triumph."
Another surprising influence on David Bowie's new album is the experimental hip-hop project Death Grips, formed in Sacramento, California, in 2010. Learn more on their website thirdworlds.net
James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem is responsible for the score of the new Noah Baumbach film While We're Young. On the soundtrack he covers Bowie's "Golden Years". Listen here: consequenceofsound.net
Read about the history of the David Bowie's "musical redemption" through his band Tin Machine, active from 1989 to 1993, and see a video for Under the God: ultimateclassicrock.com
American rock legend Iggy Pop's first two albums, The Idiot and Lust for Life, were largely cowrittten with David Bowie. Bowie co-wrote the title track Lust for Life and is featured on the keyboard and backing vocals on the track.
Hear David perform Cream's I Feel Free and talk about the experience. Bowie says a good rule for him is "If I feel a little unsafe the way that I am going, then I'm going in the right direction." www.youtube.com
Many people have speculated that Jimi Hendrix was an inspiration for Bowie's character Ziggy Stardust, though Bowie has never admitted as much.
Heroes was written by Bowie and Brian Eno in 1977. This is a cover from local's Hey Marseilles who will be playing at the Showbox on Saturday April 2nd.
Another great cover of Queen and Bowie's famous Under Pressure. See the video of Ben Harper and the Relentless 7 play this song in studio: www.youtube.com
A cover of Bowie's Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family from the 1974 album Diamond Dogs by British indie rock outfit The Wedding Present.
"Around and Around" was a 1958 Chuck Berry Song that Bowie covered in 1971 as "Round and Round". The Rolling Stones also covered the song in 1964.
Franz Ferdinand covered Bowie's Sound And Vision in 2007. Hear the song and see the video here: www.youtube.com
The Bewley Brothers gets its name from a tobacco store around the corner from his childhood home in Brixton London.
Bowie shares his birthday with fellow influential rock legend Elvis Presley who would have turned 81 today.
Just for fun, watch Bono and the Edge cover David Bowie, Lou Reed and Daft Punk's Get Lucky in an inpromptu karaoke jam. www.fuse.tv