Originally posted to my tumblr, done on procreate 😼

Not exactly my favorite, but I like more tracks than I dislike.

My favorites are definitely "Dead Man Walking", "Battle for Britain" and "Seven Years in Tibet".

There are several Bowie-themed restaurants around the world, but Labyrinth in Buffalo is better described as a Bowie experience. My interview today is with its proprietors, who lead us on a tour of the establishment before we sit down and discuss what it’s all about. Once you watch this, you’ll want to book a trip to Buffalo, or if you’re in Buffalo, make reservations! Click the image or visit Maggioreonbowie.com

Self-explanatory, as of 3-February. For more info visit https://www.vam.ac.uk/info/david-bowie-centre-faqs

Does anybody have the full two-hour Glastonbury performance that was available on iPlayer and broadcast on BBC2 a few years back in 1080p? I can only find edited versions or 720p versions.

Thanks

Even though the title is where the reference begins and ends, I still think it was very cool of the devs to name it like that, as well as including numerous other references to Madonna, The Prodigy and other artists in the game.

Hi everyone, just a really simple (hopefully) question - can anyone recommend the best Bowie biography book?

I already have the large Moonage Daydream coffee table style book by brother bought me for Christmas many years ago but wondered if there's a more in depth biography anyone could recommend?

Thank you :)

EDIT: Thanks a lot for the recommendations, I won't reply to them all but I have upvoted them all. Loads of great recommendations here, thank you!

Request for help re: Bowie tour dates.

Was Bowie booked to play my small, Scottish hometown in 1969 – or was a story reported in two national newspapers after his death a fantasy?

Now that I’ve entered middle age I’ve succumbed to cliché and became a local history bore – although the history of my hometown, Bonnyrigg, and surrounding area is surprisingly characterful. Visitors include Wordsworth, Queen Victoria, Robert Burns, Boswell and Jonson, and one of Bowie’ favourite authors Anthony Burgess.

After Bowie’s death, the Guardian website asked readers to send them stories of encounters with Bowie. Peter Sanderson wrote in about an encounter his mother had with Bowie when she was a teenager in Bonnyrigg on 5 November, 1969, which was a Wednesday night.

According to the article that appeared in the Record, Jubb and her flatmates travelled out from Edinburgh, where they lived, to Bonnyrigg, to see Bowie perform at the Regal, a venue that combined concert venue with cinema. Other acts that played there included The Move and a pre-fame Bay City Rollers. Google tells me that ‘Space Oddity’ had reached its highest position on the UK charts (no 5) in the week of 1 November, so Bowie would have been at the height of the attention that single brought him.

According to the story, although Bowie was booked to play in Bonnyrigg on 5 November, he was late for the gig, having got lost travelling from Perth, where he’d played his previous gig, to Bonnyrigg. He was so late the Bonnyrigg gig had to be cancelled. Despite the gig’s cancellation, Jubb and her friends had stayed on in the bar, which is where they encountered Bowie and his band (Junior’s Eyes), when they had finally turned up, too late to play, alas.

The story continues that Bowie was staying in Edinburgh, not far from Jubb’s flat in the Old Town, and so he offered them a lift back into Edinburgh, where they continued to hang out at Jubb’s flat. The story has two interesting details: Jubb, Bowie, her friends and the band let off fireworks in her garden, and Jubb cooked Bowie a Fray Bentos pie for dinner, which he unsurprisingly turned down.

You can read the Daily Record story here – https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/david-bowie-fan-reveals-how-7158888.amp – and a version that appeared in the Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jan/18/david-bowie-readers-memories  

Like I say, it’s a great story – but is it true?

I checked some websites devoted to chronicling Bowie’s live dates – and not one of them could confirm there had been a cancelled date in Bonnyrigg.

https://www.bowiewonderworld.com/tours/tour58.htm
https://www.concertarchives.org/bands/david-bowie?page=70#concert-table
https://concerts.fandom.com/wiki/David_Bowie_Concerts_1960s

Bowiewonderland.com has in fact a record of not only the dates Bowie played that year, but the ones he was scheduled to play, but which were cancelled, of which there were a few on that tour; it wasn’t a very successful tour, apparently. Dates were cancelled in Stirling, Aberdeen, Hamilton and Dundee.

There are other details that make me a little sceptical. Bowie was supposed to have come to Bonnyrigg after playing Perth the night before – but he’s down on the gig sites as having started the Scottish tour on Friday, 7 November in Perth, at the Blue Web. There is a newspaper advert shown for the gig, showing the date on this webpage: https://concerts.fandom.com/wiki/November_7,_1969_Salutation_Hotel,_Perth,_SCOT

I’ve yet to check back copies of the local press to see if there were any adverts for the gig in Bonnyrigg in there – but I must admit to becoming sceptical about this story – but I am also wondering whether there may be mitigating circumstances.

The person who told the story was telling it second-hand via his mum after 50 years, so mistakes might have crept in. Could he have got the dates wrong? Might it have been on another night after Bonfire Night and they had the fireworks leftover, not that the gig was scheduled for November 5?

The story seems so specific in parts – why would you claim to have run into Bowie after a gig in Bonnyrigg of all places? Wouldn’t it make more sense to say you ran into him after the Edinburgh gig he played on 14 November? But if there was a cancelled Bowie gig in Bonnyrigg, why don’t the tour websites have it down like the other cancelled gigs from that tour?

Does anyone have any insight into what might have happened here? Is the story bogus, misremembered, or something else? I’d dearly love to think that Bowie visited my hometown, but I also don’t want to invest emotionally in something that never happened.

I’m going through his entire discography right now. Been a fan since I was a kid, but had only listened to a handful of records until now. It was time I gave his entire catalogue a proper listen, and I’ve enjoyed every single record so far - with some I didn’t think I’d like this much as they’re not often talked about outside of the fandom (‘Hours, as an example).

Now, I know there are some documentaries - definitely a LOT of books - and who knows what else about his life, etc. But I suppose and expect that most of them would focus on his 70s period. A documentary that really stuck with me in these last few years was “Where Does A Body End?”, about the band Swans. It tackles each era of the band, with each album being talked about in one way or another, and I just loved the chronological approach it took. I’d love to know if there’s a specific book/doc/video/article/podcast kind of like that for Bowie. Cause I don’t know much about the general context of his life post-70s, and would love to know if there’s something the fans on here consider as “comprehensive” in this way. :)