Month: January 1999

Rumors have been spreading about a potential Gisborne, New Zealand millennium festival to be held December 31, 1999.

Gisborne holds particular interest in the new millennium because it is the first city in the world to greet the new millennium (being the eastern-most city in New Zealand). A front page article in New Zealand’s Sunday Star Times reported that David Bowie has been asked to appear at the special millennium festival.

An official spokesperson from Odyssey’s End, the organizers of the festival, said an official announcement of attendees and performers will come by the end of January. Mentioned in the newspaper report are David Bowie, Split Enz, Larry King, Kiri Te Kanawa and more. In a related television report on New Zealand’s national news program, several locals were asked if they would pay $200 to attend the festival, and about half of them said “Yes, if David Bowie is there”. Is this story true or false? Check back next week?

For more on the 2000 festival, you can visit the Gisborne 2000 Millennium website.

In an article entitled “Top Five Business Stars of 1998” (December 24th issue) The Mirror, a (UK publication), has named David Bowie as the 1998 Businessman of the Year. Reasons sited included Bowie’s trend setting “Bowie Bonds” deal and over-all business acumen.

“We gave the award for two reasons. First, Bowie has single-handedly changed the music industry forever, thanks to his “Bowie Bonds”. The second reason for our award is that Bowie has shown himself to be a sound businessman“.

The other top 4 include:

2. David Potter
3. Bernie Ecclestone
4. Guy Hands
5. Marjorie Scardino

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In their feature article entitled “FORCAST 99′ The Next 10 Years” ComputerWorld has just named David Bowie as one of the top 20 Technology Visionaries.

David, along with such IT heavyweights as Bill Gates, Tim Berners-Lee, Marc Andreessen, Scott McNealy, and Larry Ellison were all asked to share their personal view of what’s to come in the next decade. Read David’s Contribution PLUS the other top 20 Visionaly views of the future at www.computerworld.com.

Yet another mysterious stamp appears from out of the wide-blue-yonder. This one is from the Caribbean island of St. Vincent, just a stones throw away from Bowies’ old home on Mustique.

Says David, “I know and knew nothing about this at all. And St. Vincent was about a 15 minute ferry ride from where I was living. I wonder if they did a Jagger one, or a Princess Margaret for that matter. Any one know anything about this printing?”