Silly Boy Blue at the Tibet House

David Bowie has worked for all kinds of charities.  Most of them not your run-of-the-mill stuff.  One of them is something called Tibet House.  They strive to preserve the culture of Tibet.  Oddly enough, Bowie recreated one of my all-time favorite obscure songs from way back when, for this charity event.  Which, by the way, is not held in Tibet.  And, I guess not so oddly, the song is about Tibet.  So, without further ado, the song about Tibet sung at an event for Tibet but not in Tibet, Silly Boy Blue:

While scarping this video from boobtube, I was filled in on the fact that Bowie did indeed remix Silly Boy Blue for a project album called “Toy”. “Toy” apparently never made the cut and Silly Boy Blue will remain very obscure. However, given Bowie’s updated re-mix, I’d just as soon stick with the original. I’ve got my ideas on how it should sound in the 21st century:

Here is the Music Player. You need to installl flash player to show this cool thing!

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