Month: January 2000

Time to meet your maker… Melody Maker, that is. The verdict is in for Melody Maker’s 100 Best Albums of All Time, and here is how our db fared:

1 : The Queen Is Dead – The Smiths
2 : The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
3 : Nevermind – Nirvana
4 : The Beatles – The Beatles
5 : The Bends – Radiohead
6 : Revolver – The Beatles
7 : HUNKY DORY – DAVID BOWIE
8 : Definitely Maybe – Oasis
9 : Screamadelica – Primal Scream
10 : Never Mind The Bollocks – The Sex Pistols
34 : ZIGGY STARDUST – DAVID BOWIE

info courtesy Spaceface

In honor of Martin Luther King Day, we thought you might enjoy reading Dr. King’s famous”I have a Dream” speech.

The voting booths are NOW OPEN!! The good news is that DB is already in the top 5 or 10 vote-getters, but I know we can do better. Go VOTE FOR BOWIE at the Official Glastonbury Festival website.

If you’ve not yet been, here’s a little reminder that you have two weeks left to catch the current exhibition ‘Faces of the Century‘ at London’s National Portrait Gallery, as mentioned on BowieArt.com back in October of the last century. For more information and a few words from David about his selections click on the image above.

Total Blam Blam – (European Correspondent)

FYI, there is a review of the December 2nd, 1999 Astoria Gig that is linked under the Features department on the front page of Q Magazine

info courtesy Spaceface

Update time once more!Lots of updates on SOD, including SOD of the Month, Bitch of the Month,Contest winners and more!

http://www.squeakie.com/sod/

Three Little Birds…Behind every great man etc etcThe representatives of ‘the fair sex’ from the Dave Bowie band will all be available for a bit of chitter chatter, and no doubt some juicy inside gossip on Wednesday, January 26th. That’s right Gail Ann Dorsey, Emm Gryner and Holly Palmer will be expecting your most probing enquiries from 8:00pm EST. That gives you well over a week to swot up on your subjects….Oh, almost forgot…they will be dragging along their friend David Bowie, who has been involved in some of their musical experiments in the past. Look for more info on this chat next week.

Everyone should check out this detailed interview (11 pages!) with DB in Sound and Vision Magazine‘s first issue of the new Millennium. Does that mean we’re the cutting edge of the cutting egde? Cool.

Check out the lovely photo on page 9 of the BowieNet webmaster in his UltraStar environs. Looks familiar. 😉

Go to the interview

Quite a build-up to this one from 6:30am this morning UK time, with Virgin Radio boss Chris Evans pretending tofret that he hoped David would be up in time for the ‘live’ interview!

David set the scene with the information that it was 2:20am in New York and that he had just finished washing hishands, having helped some workmen to lift paving slabs after a mains pipe had burst outside in the street. If youheard the interview and believed that statement, then you have a cruel life ahead of you.

But, I believe the story was merely a vehicle for the beautifully spiritual message that followed. A message that,while it works on the literal level that David had painted in our minds to illustrate his point, it obviously holds adeeper meaning that stretches out across the nations of the Earth and is the very essence of BowieNet: “Chris”,Said David, “If you’re gonna live in a community, I really think that you have to be part of it.”

Go here for the whole thing.

Total Blam Blam – (European Correspondent)

Just added a page with links to stories and images of the Tokyo Birthday 2000 Celebration! Click here to go to DB’s Birthday Celebration! Remember to hunt through those eggs!

A special thank you to Tomoko Sato for keeping us Western Hemispherians informed!