Month: August 2000

A lawsuit filed by the Pullman Group against Prudential Insurance last November was dismissed earlier this week, concluding a 10-month old lawsuit. David Pullman, the architect of the so-called Bowie Bonds, had his lawsuit dismissed by New York Supreme Court judge Justice Beatrice Shainswit. Shainswit found that Pullman lacked standing to sue for infringement of his claim of intellectual property rights on the grounds that any ownership interests belonged to the securities firm of Gruntal & Co. because Mr. Pullman developed his concept for intellectual property securitization while he was still a company employee. Included in the $2.5 billion lawsuit was RZO, the publishing/copyright arm for much of Bowie’s work.

Author Nicholas Pegg has teamed up with UK publisher Reynolds & Hearn to produce The Complete David Bowie, billed as the most complete and in-depth ever account of David Bowie?s entire career!

The 480 page paperback is slated to be released in early October, and promises a comprehensive look at both David’s music and life, including analyses of the albums, tours and David’s stage and screen career.

Thanks, Eriekittym!

As a follow up to yesterday’s news about obtaining the Limited Edition 3CD set in the UK, you can also pre-order the album in the U.S. at CDNOW!

Thanks, Margot!

The Motley Fool (www.fool.com – a site for investment tracking and advice) has taken 10 individuals from the world of finance and elsewhere and stranded them on a remote island called “Foolonga.”

One of the 10 chosen one is David! (another is Raven the Chimp…)

No electricity, no money, and no Internet connection. Each day, you and the rest of the community of Fools (you must register to play, but it’s free) will vote for one person to leave the island until one castaway remains. And if you can predict the order of their departures, you could win a whopping $2,000!

Go and see how he is doing! Just click here!

Thanks, Spaceface!

In case you missed this in the news a few days ago, here is the tasty little crummie of BowieNetter (or is it BowieNutter, Blam? 😉 Freecloud performing the song The Supermen at the BowieNet Picnic in Central Park on Sunday, June 18, 2000!

Click here (or on the image above) to view it!

Go, Freecloud!

Those clever chaps at EMI have produced a rather special promo sampler for the ‘Bowie at the BEEB’ set due on 25th September. This impossibly rare eight-track promo CD takes the form of a reel-to-reel tape in a tape box, and jolly nice it is too. For a closer look and a full track listing, click on the image above (try the box and the CD). As you might imagine, we have managed to procure ten of these beauties to give out to a few of you lucky BowieNutters!!

As if that wasn’t enough to tickle your fancy, we also have ten even rarer CDRs of the third limited CD from the BEEB set, the recording of David’s performance from The Radio Theatre back in June. Even baby Steve K knows that this CDR is rarer than hen’s teeth, and in fact probably even rarer than baby Steve’s own teeth!

“What’s the catch?”… I hear you cry…There’s no catch my friends, well only a little one. Just to keep things at fever pitch we have decided not to run this competition until Thursday evening, at 6:00pm EST (11:00 GMT). I know we can never satisfy everybody with our competition times but at least you have time to book your babysitter Mrs K.

Meantime check back to this page on Monday for your chance to win one of ten Sex Pistols Videos, ‘The Filth And The Fury’ – If you were a winner of the Sex Pistols soundtrack CD from the same film, then there is no need to take part as you will be receiving a copy by way of compensation for your outrageously long wait for your prize. This generosity only applies to this competition, before those of you who have waited even longer for prizes start mailing me! };-)

Total Blam Blam – (European Correspondent)

For folks in the UK, 101CD.COM has declared that pre-orders for “Bowie at the Beeb” have to be made prior to the 31st of August to be sure to get the 3 limited CD set. Place your order here!

Thanks, Bianca!

The votes are pouring in for the two current impressive displays of BNet talent, the Dee Bee Cover Project (organized by Ramsey) and the HaiBow Finalists (organized by kelmar666).

Please remember to only vote once on each contest (On HaiBow you can vote once in each category) – if you vote multiple times, none of your votes will count…:(

The Bowie 2001 Calendar is completed and can be ordered from 365calendars.com. Bianca tells us that the front cover is like the photo above, only in color.

Thanks, Bianca!

The new edition of the German “Gala” magazine (dated August 24th) has a pleasant story about baby gifts from overseas. Reportedly, the Somalian government will send original Somalian toys to David and Iman to express their congratulations and gratitude for the work Iman has done as ambassador for Somalia. How thoughtful! Thanks, Bianca!