Archive for the ‘david bowie’ Category
30 day song challenge day four: I’ve never done anything out of the blue
Day 4 – ‘A song that makes you sad’
OK, a weird kind of sad based on self-reflection more than anything else, but this song needs to get in there sooner rather than later.
- 22nd September, 1975
OK, can anyone name the two actresses and the show in the picture? Thought so! Doesn’t seem that long ago, does it?
This is the penultimate edition of Top Gear and a copy of this show has been kicking around in a much edited, poor (by which I mean excellently medium wave) quality, version for ages.
A big thank you to Humphrey for a longer, cleaner show, which for some reason doesn’t feature the delights of ABBA, despite the musical excellence they clearly display in their Waterloo Seaside special of the same month.
Track list:
The Faces: ‘Stay With Me’ (Peel Session)
Steeleye Span: ‘Rave On’ (Peel Session)
Roxy Music: ‘If There Is Something’ (Peel Session)
Syd Barrett: ‘Gigolo Aunt’ (Peel Session)
Steeleye Span: ‘Lark In The Morning’ (Peel Session)
Steeleye Span – The Blacksmith
Lindisfarne – Road To Kingdom Come
Syd Barrett – Effervescing Elephant
The Faces – Maggie May
For those of you who weren’t there, this is what life was like in the 1970s…
Please help us at the JP wiki if you have any more info about this show.
- Iggy and Bowie terrorise Dinah Shore on daytime TV
- Best Videos Ever #2: Ashes to Ashes – David Bowie
I never did anything out of the blue
Scenes of the singer in a space suit – that suggested a hospital life-support system – and others showing him locked in what appeared to be a padded room, made reference to both Major Tom and to Bowie’s new, rueful interpretation of him. Contrary to myth and legend, the elderly woman lecturing Bowie at the end of the clip was, sadly, not his real mum. Is this the best song ever made? Depending on my mood on a given day I’d argue that yes, it is.
