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Friday On My Mind…
Tickets for the UK premiere of
The film will be showing as part of the
June 20th, 21:00 at
June 23rd, 21:15 at
Tickets are priced at £8.50 and £7.50 and are available from 12:00 pm on May 8th.
As previously reported here, (04.08.2009 NEWS: MOON IN NEW YORK AND LA THEATRES IN JUNE) MOON gets its US theatrical release in New York and Los Angeles on June 12th.
Meanwhile, if you haven’t already stumbled upon it, check out this
Waiting so long…
After some technical issues with the complex printing of the covers, it seems that
To tide you over till it’s on the shelves, above is a another tease of some of the content. Here’s a bit from designer John Malloy: “I recently had the honour of doing the cover for the comic?s section in the upcoming Lemon Magazine David Bowie issue, in addition to translating interviews with Battles and These New Puritans into comics for the same issue, each based on one of Bowie?s songs and periods in his career.”
It seems those songs were Cygnet Committee and Quicksand and you can view a further taste of them
Don’t forget that we’ll be running a contest for copies of the magazine signed by DB as will the folks at LEMON themselves.
If you haven’t already, check out these previous BowieNet stories regarding this issue of LEMON: 05.08.2008 NEWS: SNEAK PREVIEW OF LEMON’S HEROES ISSUE & 09.11.2008 NEWS: DB CONTRIBUTES EXCLUSIVE ARTWORK TO LEMON #4 & 01.12.2009 NEWS: LEMON HEROES ISSUE PUT BACK TO NEXT MONTH.
So inviting – so enticing to play the part…
Above is a sneak preview of next week’s
The star treatment is in celebration of the news that David Brighton is about to start a four month Vegas residency as part of the
Here’s the guff…
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David Brighton will be performing David Bowie favorites, six nights a week as a part of “Legends In Concert” in Las Vegas from May 18th to September 13th.
Legends in Concert features performances by celebrity look-a-like/soundalikes – including Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Tom Jones, The Blues Brothers, Shania Twain, Garth Brooks, Cher, Elton John, Michael Jackson, Madonna, The Beatles, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Rod Stewart, and many more.
In addition to the superstars’ re-enactment, the stage show features singers, dancers, and a live orchestra in a full-stage production.
For show times, list of celebrity impersonators, directions and ticket into, please visit:
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If any of you manage to get along, please let us know what you thought of Mr Brighton’s tribute.
Written in pain, written in awe, buy a puzzled man who questioned what we were here for…
The June issue (363) of
It’s a thorough piece that collects together the recollections of the majority of the key players of the time, including DB, utilising what seems to be mainly archive material though some of the interviews may be new for all I know.
Anyway, it’s a fascinating read making chronological sense of the album’s creation up to it’s release in December 1971.
Here’s a list of contributors in the order they appear in the feature…
Bob Grace (general manager and founder of Chrysalis Music, 1969-72)
Woody Woodmansey (drums, Hunky Dory)
Tony Visconti (longtime Bowie producer)
Trevor Bolder (bass, Hunky Dory)
Mick Ronson (guitar, orchestration, Hunky Dory)
Kevin Cann (author, David Bowie: A Chronology)
Dave Thompson (author, Moonage Daydream and Hallo Spaceboy)
Charles Shaar Murray (author, David Bowie: An lllustrated Record)
Peter Noone (Herman?s Hermits singer)
Ken Scott (producer, Hunky Dory and engineer on Space Oddity and The Man Who Sold The World)
Laurence Myers ((CEO, Gem, Bowie?s music and production company)
Rodney Bingenheimer (Los Angeles DJ and scenester)
Angela Bowie (David?s first wife)
Suzi Ronson (Mick?s wife)
Maggi Ronson (Mick?s sister)
Rick Wakeman (piano, Hunky Dory)
Richard Robinson (A&R, RCA, USA)
Bob Ringe (A&R, RCA, USA)
Dennis Katz (VP OF A&R, RCA, USA)
Terry Pastor (album designer and illustrator)
Mick Rock (photographer, music writer and director of the Life On Mars? promo film)
Ken Pitt (Bowie?s former manager)
You really need to buy a copy of the mag to appreciate this item, but I’ll leave you with a quotation from Rick Wakeman who always has something pretty cool to say about DB…
Rick Wakeman: “David called me up to his house in Beckenham, Kent, as he wanted to play me some songs. It is one of the most vivid musical experiences in my life. I arrived at his house and sat at his beautiful grand piano while his played all the songs that were to appear on the Hunky Dory album, on his battered 12-string guitar.
He always said to me he wrote so much on this old 12-string because if the songs sounded good on this old instrument then they could only improve when quality instruments were added. I was truly gobsmacked as one simply fantastic song would follow another.
I can vividly recall driving back home afterwards and saying to my wife that I had just heard some of the greatest songs ever, and that this album was destined to be an absolute classic. I had never said anything like this before and have never said anything like this since.”
3, 2, 1?
Bloody heck!
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So inviting – so enticing to play the part…
Following on from his successful stint with
Here’s loads of stuff to get you tempted to act the David Bowie part to Slicky’s actual Earl Slick…
~ Three nights of private rehearsals with Earl
~ 5/18, 5/19, 5/28 (6:00 ? 10:00pm) at The Studio
~ Full 45-minute set headlining at The Bitter End on Friday, 5/29
~ Sound Check
~ Rehearsals, Performance & Backstage Photo Documentary
~ Multi-track mastered recording
~ Professionally edited DVD of your performance synched with the multi-track master
~ Complete professional backline
~ MP3s of all the material selected by Earl for the set
~ Enough Rock & Roll Stories to last a lifetime!
In order to keep this experience exclusive, space is limited to: two vocalists, two guitars, bass, drums, keys, horn and percussion, so check out
Earl will take you through four nights of comprehensive rehearsals with a set list of signature songs that may include Bowie?s Golden Years, Stay, Suffragette City, Ziggy Stardust, Rebel Rebel, The Jean Genie, Cracked Actor, All The Young Dudes, China Girl, Diamond Dogs and Panic In Detroit along with a few Lennon things and some of Slicky’s own stuff before culminating in a headline gig together with Earl at The Bitter End on Friday, May 29th.
I should warn though, there’s no pint in the likes of Rex Ray turning up with his well-worn piccolo, (Italian for small…piccolo is a half-size flute) or Tony Day attending with his battered didgeridoo as “participants need to have a relative proficiency of their instrument for this style of music”.