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This is cool. NASA has chosen to play Yunglbud's cover of Bowie's Life On Mars if the landing is successful.
The Bowie estate approved the version and he was just interviewed on BBC where he said Bowie was his number one influence

You can hear a bit of a rough recording here


 
Well, here's a thing!

While Bowie has never commented on the origin of his astronaut’s name, there is one intriguing theory. As a kid growing up in Bromley, he saw posters advertising the well-known music hall performer Tom Major (Prime Minister John’s dad), and the name lodged in his brain.

 
Really interesting this

Newsnight's Stephen Smith had a rare chance to speak to Lindsey Kemp - lover and muse to the late David Bowie, . It wasn't just Bowie Kemp was close to, he also taught Kate Bush how to dance. Now 78, he's the last of the bohemians, equally at home performing mime in a striptease club or dancing for his many admirers around the world.



Oh and this

 
Wasn't David handsome in this period- the mid nineties when he was in his late 40s. Had long given up the drugs, got his gnashers sorted and looks very healthy
 
Never seen this, or even heard of it, until I just read about it in Adam Buxton's book

I've never seen it before and have just thoroughly enjoyed it!

A bit of digging about:

The 20-minute short film Jazzin’ for Blue Jean was created to promote Bowie’s 1984 single ‘Blue Jean’. It was directed by Julien Temple and released as a video single.

The film won the Grammy Award for “Best Video, Short form” (later renamed “Best Music Video”), which proved to be Bowie’s only competitive Grammy Award during his career.

The film depicts the adventures of the socially incompetent Vic (played by Bowie) as he tries to win the affections of a beautiful girl (played by Louise Scott) by claiming to personally know her favourite rock star, Screaming Lord Byron (also played by Bowie). Rightfully disbelieving him, she challenges Vic to introduce her to him. They make a date for a Screaming Lord Byron show, where Vic attempts to sneak backstage to convince Mr. Screaming to come say hello to him and the girl after the show.

Screaming does come to Vic’s table after the show and says hello to him and the girl, but the girl and Screaming Lord Byron have already met (in Peru), and she leaves with the rock star instead of Vic. As they drive off, Bowie breaks the fourth wall and asks the director why the story changed from his concept.

Three different Bowie songs are played during the video, namely ‘Don’t Look Down’, (from ‘Tonight’), ‘Warszawa’ (from ‘Low’) and ‘Blue Jean’ (also from ‘Tonight’).

Bowie takes the opportunity at several points in this film to poke fun at himself and his career – particularly his history of drug abuse, his relationships with groupies, and the commercialisation of his music (“You conniving, randy, bogus-Oriental old queen! Your record sleeves are better than your songs!”). Kinder self-references are also present, such as the song ‘Warszawa’ being played backstage to soothe Mr. Screaming while he’s applying his makeup.

Interestingly, Screaming Lord Byron’s band features Richard Fairbrass, of ‘Right Said Fred’ fame, who had a worldwide hit in 1991 with ‘I’m Too Sexy’.
 
I've never seen it before and have just thoroughly enjoyed it!

A bit of digging about:


Nice to see a Palace scarf on show too, although I never heard Bowie was a Palace fan but he was local and it fitted the character I sposeScreenshot_20210410-123334_Gallery.jpg
 
The voice isn't too bad to be fair even if the song sounds like ' Chubby little loser ' :D

No idea what the TV series is about but I guess it's good to see Bowie being referenced in new material


 
Serious Moonlight tour is on Sky Arts. I'm a fan, but my god it's an awful pile of crap. Turned over and Jeremy Clarkson is being interviewed by Jonathan Ross. Feels like I'm in a Hamlet advert.
 
This is fun: the tiny outback pub featured in Bowie's Let's Dance has an annual Bowie festival for charity








And this is the bloke in the video


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His story Backstory: How a Kiwi walked into a David Bowie video in outback Australia


It’s just struck me how wee he was 😯 (Mrs SFM says he looks like he’s been blasted with a miniaturising ray)
 
Not such a bad cover.
Interesting to note they sanitise the very mildly unpc lyrics in the modern age.
"If the black hadn't pulled her off" was changed to "if the black guy hadn't pulled her off" and "the queer threw up at the sight of that" is changed to "the queen threw up at the sight of that"
 
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