David Bowie - Happy 65th Birthday Sunday 08 January

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9th January 1997 - One day after his actual birthday, David performs live at Madison Square Garden, New York City, accompanied by some special guests

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEEgA_FavSk"]David Bowie & Friends - 50th Birthday Concert (Part 1) - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-dyaV2jmU4"]David Bowie & Friends - 50th Birthday Concert (Part 2) - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnHGce404Vw"]David Bowie & Friends - 50th Birthday Concert (Part 3) - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYewJ0RcgaA"]David Bowie & Friends - 50th Birthday Concert (Part 4) - YouTube[/ame]

 

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Bowie talks about some of his own favorites of songs he's written:

DAVID BOWIE: I went to buy some shoes - and I came back with Life On Mars (Daily Mail, 2008)

 

[essies]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBQ7ZJ3k17E"]Kooks - David Bowie - YouTube[/ame]
Great pics!!:fence:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m5G7k0J8jY"]DB + Iman - YouTube[/ame]
Interview with David and Iman; it´s a part of some documentary about Iman

 

[essies]

Here's David singing Elvis Presley's "One Night" which is a bit of serendipity since it's EP's birthday too!!
:bdsong::bdscroll::bdsong:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N77EXhYYQ8M"]Bowie - One Night.wmv - YouTube[/ame]

 

[mollymil23]

Excellent article today/yesterday in the Mirror.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-st...e-retired-from-the-limelight-115875-23685287/

 

[wfgodot]

Bumping for birthday boy Bowie.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XiRyEw5VFE"]Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) - David Bowie (HQ) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[wfgodot]

25 September 1967: Bowie answers first American fan letter, aged 20:

My Real Name is David Jones (lettersofnote.com)

 

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5dCcO7Q5sY"]David Bowie - Love You Till Tuesday - YouTube[/ame]

 

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fHoMw8tCzo"]David Bowie - Lady Grinning Soul - YouTube[/ame]
Bowie (in the Mail):

Mike Garson's piano opens with the most ridiculous and spot-on re-creation of a 19th Century music hall 'exotic' number. I can see now the 'poses plastiques' as if through a smoke-filled bar. Fans, castanets and lots of Spanish black lace and little else. Sexy, mmm? And for you, Madam?

This was written for a wonderful young girl whom I've not seen for more than 30 years. When I hear this song she's still in her 20s, of course.

A song will put you tantalisingly close to the past, so close that you can almost reach out and touch it. The sound of ghosts again.

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/tvsho...IE-I-went-buy-shoes--I-came-Life-On-Mars.html

 

[wfgodot]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr0bKK6JqFs"]David Bowie- 01 & 02 Intro & Hang on to Yourself - YouTube[/ame]

Ziggy and the Spiders had played around 50 UK shows total, and this Santa Monica performance, from October 20, 1972, would be our 12th in America.

Although of only bootleg quality and despite the drums and bass being casually miked, I hope you can feel our real thrill here of presenting the band to a radio audience for the first time. I necessarily took the most centre-stage position as easily as an old ham from Bromley Repertory would, though in reality I was deadly nervous.

This was our first live American radio broadcast, so it was a big deal. We fluffed a lot of stuff that night, but the enthusiasm and pride stand 10ft tall.

One astounding thing about Mainman, my management at the time, is that for the 18 months of the Spiders' life-cycle (and after, actually) they never arranged for us to play anywhere in Europe where Ziggy was a proverbial monster. No tours, no shows, not even Paris.

I never understood that and was pretty miserable about it at the time, but now realise how naive and unprepared my management was for the serious job of actually managing.

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/tvsho...IE-I-went-buy-shoes--I-came-Life-On-Mars.html

 

[badhorsie]

Blue eyed soul period

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFudBQcplj4&feature=related"]David Bowie Young Americans Live Dick Cavett Show 1974 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[badhorsie]

More early stuff
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m5ypVZbEIg"]David Bowie - Silly Boy Blue - YouTube[/ame]

 

[badhorsie]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORhpFUePEuA&feature=related"]David Bowie Join the Gang (Rare) - YouTube[/ame]

 

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNrEmIDAK2E"]DAVID BOWIE - HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MASTER !!! - YouTube[/ame]
Baby Universal

 

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A Lennon cover from the much-despised Tin Machine interregnum:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30jtbkUTJEE"]David Bowie - Tin Machine - Working Class Hero - YouTube[/ame]

 

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MwEq2vbsYY"]'No Control' by David Bowie and Brian Eno, 1995 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[badhorsie]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUflIrTSwK8&feature=related"]David Bowie - We are the dead - YouTube[/ame]

 

[essies]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6kipml2fOo"]Happy Birthday My White Duke - YouTube[/ame]
Song: Jump (They Say)
Album: Black Tie White Noise

 

[wfgodot]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvrCJUzCBQA"]David Bowie • Brian Eno • The Q Awards - YouTube[/ame]

 

[badhorsie]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y31QF-9fkPQ"]David Bowie Velvet Goldmine - YouTube[/ame]