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David Bowie | Suffragette City | The Imperial College of London | 12 Feb...
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Woody (second from left) with Mick, Trevor and DB in 1973, and fifty years later in 2023
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David Bowie's lost 1973 Top of the Pops performance of The Jean Genie
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#the jean genie#david bowie#mick ronson#trevor bolder#woody woodmansey#glam rock#art rock#pop#live 1973#top of the pops#totp#Youtube
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Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - Moonage Daydream
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David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust - The Motion Picture
RCA PL 84862(2), 1983
Released: October 1983
#meine photos#vinyl#david bowie#mick ronson#trevor bolder#woody woodmansey#john hutchinson#brian wilshaw#mike garson
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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
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The last Spider from Mars
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Some bands let their most famous members go and they keep recording. Look, did you hear that Spiders From Mars continued without Bowie? Not only that, they even let Ronson go. Still, I would put their Spiders From Mars in the same category as Squeeze by The Velvet Underground – both of these records could've gained a better reception, had they changed the name of the outfits behind the albums that followed the departures of the prominent ones. Spiders From Mars, for instance, shows a lot of possibilities – they could've been a solid 70's rock band – , yet the shadow of both Bowie and Ronson didn't do them any favours. Nonetheless, I get why they released the platter under Spider From Mars – no one would've checked them otherwise.
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David Bowie - The Jean Genie (Album Mix) (1972)
David Bowie
from:
"The Jean Genie” / "Ziggy Stardust" (Single)
"Aladdin Sane" (LP)
Glam Rock
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(left click = play)
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Personnel:
David Bowie: Lead Vocals / Guitar / Harmonica
Mick Ronson: Lead Guitar / Piano / Backing Vocals
Trevor Bolder: Bass Guitar
Mick “Woody” Woodmansey: Drums
Aynsley Dunbar: Percussion
Produced by Ken Scott / David Bowie
Recorded:
@ The RCA Studios
in New York City, New York USA
on October 6, 1972
Single Released:
on November 24, 1972
Album Released:
on April 13, 1973
RCA Records
#The Jean Genie#Aladdin Sane#David Bowie#Ken Scott#1970's#Glam Rock#RCA Records#Mick Ronson#Mick “Woody” Woodmansey#Trevor Bolder
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I know people are either following me because I used to post about Star Trek constantly or because I post about Bowie a lot, so here’s some random David Bowie and Star Trek connections I’ve been collecting for the past year or so. This is purely self-indulgent, but if you find this sort of thing interesting, here you go.
This is from an unpublished interview for Zygote magazine from 1971 where he was discussing the meaning of various songs. The particular song he's talking about here is "The Supermen." In case you don't want to read the full article for context, he mentioned Star Trek to act as a comparison, he was not saying that that was the initial inspiration/meaning.
This ad has song notes that Bowie wrote for the album Hunky Dory. The one of relevance is “Bewlay Brothers,” which is at the bottom of the list. It says, “Another in the series of David Bowie confessions — Star Trek in a Leather Jacket.”
You might be wondering what this means, well Bowie never really gave a consistent answer as to what this song was about. And according to Ken Scott, the producer of the album, Bowie purposefully wrote it to give a song to Americans who were reading too much into things (this was in the era of the Paul McCartney actually died and was replaced conspiracy lol). Bowie did say at different points that it was more or less about his own half-brother, but who knows if he changed his mind about that.
Although as a side note I will say that some of the lyrics sound like they could be describing Star Trek episodes lol
My Life With Bowie: Spider From Mars by Woody Woodmansey (drummer for the Spiders From Mars, Bowie’s band during the Ziggy Stardust era). He’s describing the bar in The Rainbow Room, as they were rehearsing for the most elaborate of the Ziggy Stardust concerts in August of 1972.
Mick Ronson talking about the Ziggy Stardust boots, the clip is from the documentary Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story. Angie, in case people don’t know, was Bowie’s first wife.
Side note about this one though, Bowie compared his own boots to wrestler boots (see image below). But Mick’s shoes weren’t far off from the Star Trek boots.
Book page from Moonage Daydream: The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust, which was written by David Bowie and photographer Mick Rock.
Bowie in Brussels in 1978 doing (his best attempt at) the Vulcan LLAP salute, photo by Gie Knaeps.
Because I’m me, I’ve been trying to figure out what song he did this during—with certainty I can say it was during the second half of the set after the intermission. That would make it so that they were either songs from Ziggy Stardust or from Station to Station.
My guess (and it really is only a guess) is that it could have been during “TVC15.” When he performed it live he’d often sing “she’s my main creature feature” and sometimes do devil horns with his fingers and whatnot. Seems like a plausible spot, anyhow. The other one is potentially the song “Ziggy Stardust,” but just based on how he usually performed that one, such as where he’d add gestures and how he tended to convey the emotions of the song, I find it more unlikely.
But I wasn’t there and these are literally just guesses. On the off chance someone was there and that they inexplicably remember this, I would love to know.
Gates McFadden, before being Beverley Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation, was the choreographer for the film Labyrinth, where of course Bowie played Jareth the Goblin King.
And to avoid possible confusion, she was not the choreographer for "Magic Dance" at least when it came to Bowie's moves, as that was Charles Augin. She was, however, the choreographer for "As The World Falls Down" with the ballroom scene.
Lyrics from one of the Tin Machine albums (Bowie’s band in the late 80s-early 90s, which Bowie wrote most of the lyrics for, minus a few songs).
Additionally Iman, who Bowie met in 1990 and married in 1992, was in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country as Martia. She was on set filming at least in April of 1991 in LA, as you can see in this filming schedule I found on an auction website. I don’t know how long she was filming for, though.
(Side note, Bowie was in LA at least towards the end of April/beginning May as he talked about how he and Iman saw the riots that happened then. No I’m not saying he visited the set, since for one Shatner says he never met Bowie, but I still think it’s neat he was generally around when she was filming).
And a little snippet from one article (the screenshot is from one of those interview compilation books).
It’s not actually that much in the grand scheme of things and more than anything just shows that Bowie was a fan of the show. It should also be remembered that Star Trek wasn’t ever really cited as a huge influence for him in terms of aesthetic, which is a rather common assumption people make, but I thought that these were fun nonetheless. I’m sure I also missed/forgot stuff, so if I come across more I'll probably add to this later on.
#hey remember that trek fan that turned into a bowie blog? yeah me neither pfft#but anyways this is the post I mentioned#I tried to explain everything in case people only have like cursory knowledge of Bowie. so hopefully this all makes sense#star trek#david bowie#bowieposting#trekposting
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Happy Birthday Christina 'Licorice' McKechnie, born on October 2nd 1945 in Edinburgh.
This is always a difficult post for, I say Happy Birthday to Licorice, but in my heart I think she is dead, she was last heard from in 1990, and the last sighting of, "Likkie’’ as she became known, was hitchhiking across the Arizona desert.
Christina ‘Licorice’ McKechnie was born in Edinburgh in 1945, there is nothing about her early life online that I can find, her story starts when she was known around the folk clubs of Auld Reekie, reciting poetry, it was around this time she left home-and was set to marry, the late great Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch. The banns had been called, (Banns were a legal requirement and were an intention of marriage, posted for people to see in their parish,) the wedding never took place, Jansch left Scotland for Morocco.
Likkie began a relationship with Robin Williamson who along Robin,Clive Palmer and Mike Heron had form The Incredible String Band, the group split for a time when Williamson and Likkie went travelling but reformed on their return as a duo with Heron. They later played on the same bill as Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell, Likkie joined then as vocalist and they recorded the album, The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion.
The band went on to have success touring but had limited commercial success. They got involved with Scientology in the 60’s and it is said to have contributed to a decline in their music quality, they did however play Woodstock in 69, they were scheduled to play the first day and a fee of $4500 had been agreed, this would have been a huge sum for them back in the 60’s and you would have thought bigger things beckoned. The band didn’t appear on the film of the festival as they refused to play in the rain, their slot was taken by the fabulous Melanie (Safka) who later wrote “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” about her day. “String Band” played the next day on a mainly rock day, the world missed out and so did they.
By late 1969, they had established a communal base at Glen Row near Innerleithen, Likkie and Robin split around this time although she remained in the group till 1972. After a failed marriage to musician Brian Lambert she featured on an album with Williamson and his Merry men and an album with Woody Woodmansey’s band U-Boat. Beyond this, it's believed that she may have bounced around, living perhaps in Los Angeles, Arizona, and Sacramento.
The Diversity of Classic Rock website reports that McKechnie's sister last heard from her in 1990, when McKechnie had been recovering from surgery in Sacramento. The site is also one of many that claims McKechnie disappeared in the Arizona desert, but this has never been conclusively proved.
Time to hit the kitchen to grab a few grains of salt because Reddit has also weighed in on her disappearance, with unproven theories ranging from a Scientology connection to parsing the words of former bandmates who wish (emphasis on the present tense) her well.
Redditors also claim that McKechnie's family hired private investigators to find her, though they were unsuccessful. Others counter that she's been traced via a basic internet search to a small city in the States. The confusion is enough to make any casual sleuth hope that McKechnie just grew tired of the spotlight and is now happy in her anonymity.
I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether Likkie is dead, or if she is living way off grid somewhere on the other side of the Atlantic celebrating her 78th birthday.
#scotland#scottish#history#flower power#Th incredible string band#edinburgh#Happy Birthday?#Woodstock
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Top Of The Pops, 1972
Starman
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David Bowie - Changes [Official Lyric Video]
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#david bowie#changes#mick ronson#trevor bolder#woody woodmansey#rick wakeman#glam rock#art rock#pop#hunky dory#1971#Youtube
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David Bowie
Live Santa Mónica ‘72
1994 Golden Years
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Tracks:
01. Introduction
02. Hang on to Yourself
03. Ziggy Stardust
04. Changes
05. The Supermen
06. Life on Mars?
07. Five Years
08. Space Oddity
09. Andy Warhol
10. My Death
11. The Width of a Circle
12. Queen Bitch
13. Moonage Daydream
14. John, I’m Only Dancing
15. Waiting for the Man
16. The Jean Genie
17. Suffragette City
18. Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide
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Trevor Bolder
David Bowie
Mike Garson
Mick Ronson
Mick Woodmansey “Woody”
* Long Live Rock Archive
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David Bowie: Aladdin Sane
Gatefold
top: EMI EMC 3579, 1990
2nd: EMI 7243 4 99463 1 6 (The Millennium Vinyl Collection)
Originally released: April 19, 1973
#meine photos#vinylcollection#1973 music#david bowie#mick ronson#mike garson#ken fordham#trevor bolder#woody woodmansey#geoffrey maccormack#linda lewis#juanita franklin
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