Month: April 1999

During a recent episode of NBC’s “Friends”, Joey fools his grandma into believing a homemade video is his “big break” on Law and Order. After Joey’s fake scene, the tape switches to an older recording of Chandler singing “Space Oddity” into the camera. The pair rush to turn off the tape before Joey’s grandma discovers the ruse.First ER now Friends…Must See Bowie!

25 years ago today (April 24, 1974), ‘Diamond Dogs’ was released.

Here are a few photos of the “Diamond Dogs” period.

Time to bring it to the people. Join the UltraStar crew for an informal chat Monday, April 26th at 9:00 p.m. EST.

We want to hear your thoughts and ideas about any BowieNet issues. Your feedback is taken seriously, so be part of the community and let your voice be heard.

We will use the open chat forum (no moderation) for this one.

If you have any questions you would like to ask before the live chat, you can e-mail your questions to tina@ultrastar.com. We will use these pre-chat questions in addition to your live questions.

See you there!

If you’re in the mood for web building, check out the David Bowie Pod on Tripod. Join for free and make your ownfan page. When you do, let us know about it and we’ll list yours in the Discourse area.

The US National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (aka The Recording Academy) has issued a press release announcing the election of “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” to it’s Hall of Fame.

Other inductees include Van Morrison’s 1968 album Astral Weeks, and The Beatles’ Revolver album, recorded in 1966. The only stipulation for induction is that the albums are at least 25 years old.

Have a look at the Story on their website: http://www.grammy.org

Here are a few exclusive photos of the “Ziggy” period.

Be on the look out for the next round of BowieNet Things from our friends over at http://www.thingworld.com.

As usual, BowieNet members will get first crack at this next round, so keep an eye out for em.

Today is your last day! Get in or be left out! Here is a re-print of the rules in case you don’t remember. (how could you forget this one?)

Speedo Model Competition!

Rules:
1. Contestant must email a picture of themselves and a pair of speedosto(info@davidbowie.com). All pictures MUST contain anentrant and a pair of speedos — however, the entrant need not beactuallywearing the speedos.

2. Image size must be under 640×480 pixels in JPG or GIF format — nopictures may be over 200kb in size.

3. All entries will be voted upon by the BowieNet public,and each pic shall be rated by the BowieNetizens — 1thru 5, on a “Studliness” scale.

Prizes:
1st prize: A pair of Speedos signed by Bowie (in marker, PLEASE, not..well.. err). Whether the pair of briefs are used or not is up to Dave.

Runners Up: Inclusion on Tybalt’s BowieNet Hunks calendar(whatta prize!).. We might even throw in a mousepad fer the hell ofit.

It’s been over 6 months since we had a one-on-one with the man himself, so on Tuesday, April 27th at 10:00 p.m. EST, 7:00 p.m. PST, BowieNet will proudly bring you a Live chat with David Bowie.

Please log into the #ChatGuest room for this chat event. See you there.

If you have any questions you would like to ask before the live chat, you can e-mail your David Bowie questions to info@davidbowie.com. We will use these pre-chat questions in addition to your live questions.

British music magazine MOJO has listed their “The Top 100 Singers” list. Here are the results:

1. John Lennon
2. Elvis Presley
3. Aretha Franklin
4. Frank Sinatra
5. Bob Dylan
6. Roy Orbison
7. Paul McCartney
8. Otis Redding
9. Robert Plant
10. Ray Charles
11. Van Morrison
12. Marvin Gayle
13. David Bowie
14. Dusty Springfield
15. Sandy Denny
16. Mick Jagger
17. Sam Cooke
18. Brian Wilson
19. Joni Wilson
20. Captain Beefheart

Until today, it has just been a name, but now you can read up on the man himself- Alex Grant, winner of the BowieNet Cybersong Contest. Read the interview here, exclusively on BowieNet.