This is a gorgeous live version of Bowie’s “‘Heroes’” that gets better as it goes. A really nice contemporary-sounding take on the song (so good I don’t even miss the synth, which is saying something), and a very graceful performance of it by Mr. Jones. The YouTube page doesn’t say where it’s taken from — […]
Entries Tagged as 'Glam Rock'
The Bowie Video Vault: Live “‘Heroes,’” “My Death,” and “Fashion”
Posted by Ocelopotamus on October 16th, 2007 at 3:29 am
Tags: Culture · Music · New Wave · David Bowie · Video · Glam Rock · Britpop
Roundup: Picketing Flamingo Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on July 23rd, 2007 at 5:17 am
“Iraq hasn’t even begun”: Writing in the LA Times, Timothy Garton Ash, a professor of European studies at Oxford University, examines the long-term consequences of the debacle in Iraq, and concludes, “Looking back over a quarter of a century of chronicling current affairs, I cannot recall a more comprehensive and avoidable man-made disaster.”
Digby on the […]
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The Mid-70s Bowie Video Vault: David, Dick, Dinah … and a Dentist
Posted by Ocelopotamus on July 12th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
I think I must have died and gone to David Bowie video heaven.
Prior to discovering the other videos in this post on YouTube, I had seen the clip of Bowie performing “Young Americans” on the Dick Cavett show in December of 1974, because it’s on the Best of Bowie DVD set. (I missed seeing […]
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Music: Jacques Brel, Marc Almond, and “Jacky” — with a Side of David Bowie
Posted by Ocelopotamus on June 12th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
As Marc Almond-mania mounts to fever pitch in anticipation of the impending release of Marc’s new album Stardom Road later this month, this post at After Elton has me thinking about Jacques Brel — who has long held a secure spot among the top 10 artists who make me wish my command of French were […]
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Music: “The Wild, the Beautiful and the Damned” (and A Tale of Two Ultravoxes)
Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 25th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Here’s a nice video find for Friday: “The Wild, the Beautiful and the Damned” by Ultravox! (the early, John Foxx-led incarnation of the band). This song has possibly the most figuratively ambitious lyrics you’ll find in any song not written by David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, or Bob Dylan. And what a thrill to watch John […]
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Roundup: Pottymouth Jar Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 22nd, 2007 at 8:20 am
It’s the foreign policy, stupid: This great post at Crooks and Liars takes apart the simplistic and unhelpful notion that terrorists “hate us for our freedoms.” As Michael Scheuer, former station chief of the CIA’s Osama Bin Laden task force, says:
“The fundamental flaw in our thinking about Bin Laden is that ‘Muslims hate and attack […]
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Suzi Quatro Rocks Hard in Times Square
Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 30th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Ah, another thrilling YouTube find!
Some of you will know Suzi Quatro as the most prominent female glam rocker of the early 70s, racking up a string of hits with Chapman-Chinn numbers like “Can the Can.” Some will know her only from her soft-rock duet “Stumblin’ In” with Chris Norman, which you have to have a […]
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Music: Tim Curry, “I Do the Rock”
Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 2nd, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Time for a little Monday music pick-me-up! This one needs no introduction: it’s the inimitable Mr. Tim Curry doing that thing he does. Nobody prances better.
