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Suffragette City at Imperial College

EKOMusic made this excellent find and either posted it on Youtube, or found it there.  I dunno.  This is a performance Bowie did of Suffragette City at Imperial College on February 12, 1972.

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The rise and eventual liberation of Lord Royal Highness

In about one hour, after months of anxiously awaiting, Bowie makes his cartoon debut ( as far as I know ), as Lord Royal Highness on the Spongebob special Atlantis Squarepantis! Don’t know about you all, but me and the … Continue reading

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Space Oddity on Hits A Go Go ( have you seen THIS outfit before? )

If you wanna see the evolution of David Bowie in its entirety, just watch all the videos of Space Oddity.  Or just do it here, I’ve got a bunch of them.  And, I’ll probably have a bunch more.  Never one … Continue reading

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Space Oddity, the original motion picture

Most people consider the RCA/Mick Rock video of a shock-red-haired androgynous Bowie as the original Space Oddity video.  A lot of sources will cite it as such.  However, about three years before that, while he was still David Jones, he … Continue reading

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Lindsay Kemp and The Jean Genie

This is probably the most difficult person to write on I’ve ever dealt with on this blog. Very, very, very early in Bowie’s career, he made some unusual life choices. First of all, he teamed up with a rather odd … Continue reading

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Insolence

Here’s Let’s Dance like you’ve never seen it before:

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Arthur and the Invisibles

Bowie’s apparently in another movie, in voice only: Looks like one to take the Moonlet to see. This is very cool.

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Memory of a Free Festival

Before Bowie was Ziggy, before he was The Thin White Duke, before he became African or animated, he was a long haired hipster singing folk songs, looking something like this: However, also from the same album as Space Oddity was … Continue reading

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The Little Fat Man

And, ever true to his prognostications of his own day to day life, immediately after retiring, he’s been caught performing for TV. The result is the new smash hit, The Little Fat Man. Here’s the lyrics as I couldn’t catch … Continue reading

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Space Oddity

It just suddenly struck me that in my desire to “interpret” some of my favorite Bowie tunes, I’ve forgotten probably his signature song, Space Oddity. If you don’t know the lyrics to this one by heart, you’re probably not hanging … Continue reading

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