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This week In the Studio it’s the fiftieth anniversary of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie, who would effectively change the course of rock’n’roll, fashion, and culture for the next half century in just thirty-eight minutes. The late David Bowie is my fascinating, charming guest on the golden anniversary of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust…the week of June 12.
The late David Bowie was already sowing the seeds of the fabled “Toy” project, which would remain unreleased until 2022, even as I watched him perform live at New York City’s Kit Kat Klub on November 19, 1999 and then sit with me In the Studio for this in-depth interview. -Redbeard
On the golden anniversary of “Hunky Dory”, David Bowie’s December 1971 fourth album, hard to believe when reading all of the revisionist raves now, that “Hunky Dory” was a commercial flop, so much so that it failed to even make the Billboard Top 200 sales chart. The late great David Bowie joined me here In the Studio for the tale, as did his original wingman, guitarist Mick Ronson, for the scoop on “Changes”,”Andy Warhol”, and “Life on Mars?”
When David Bowie performed “Changes” in Los Angeles in 1974, now with historical hindsight we can see that David Bowie gave us hints of a musical left turn even that night.
Did you know that the late David Bowie pioneered the art and technology “livestreaming” even before the new millennium? I was there in New York City when the Album Network teamed with David’s bowie.net to live stream his show from the Kit Kat Klub November 19, 1999. Here’s “China Girl” from that show.
“The way you change Music is by changing the music,” David Bowie told me, without any hint of irony whatsoever, as we discussed 1976’s Station to Station. Songs include “Golden Years”,”Stay” ,”TVC 1-5″ ( Bowie said that the unused tune for the Man…Earth soundtrack was about a girl and her relationship with her television),”Wild is the Wind” , and the title song, often cited by post-punk bands including The Cars, Talking Heads, and Gary Numan as a major influence.
this ultra-rare live acoustic performance by David Bowie of the Velvets’ “White Light/White Heat” in New York City 1996
By 1975 David Bowie had abandoned the Glam Rock he had virtually invented in the guise of the ego-tripping tragicomic Fallen Rock Star, Ziggy Stardust. Bowie’s mid-decade “Young Americans” album with the #1 hit “Fame” pointed directly toward Disco’s dominance a mere two years later…
A lot has changed since April 1983, not the least of which is in the areas of communication, information, and entertainment. So it was no surprise that multi-media maven David Bowie, who seemed tailor-made then for the dawn of the MTV era in America when Let’s Dance was released, would later be among the first to embrace computer-generated gaming and virtual reality, which David discusses at length here.
David Bowie’s “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust” changed the trajectory of rock music, fashion, and gender social issues in just 38 minutes. Here are the late David Bowie and guitarist Mick Ronson with me In the Studio.