David Bowie : The Independent : 06/04/01. From Simon Price’s review of Missy Elliott’s recent gig at Brixton Academy. Occasionally, maybe once a decade if we’re lucky, pop history will throw up a precious instance when a person and a moment coincide. When one artist at the height of their powers seems to tower over everyone else, seems capable of almost anything. In 1972, it was David Bowie.
Life On Mars : MOJO : July 2001. In the regular MOJO feature, All Back To My Place, Ian Astbury of The Cult was asked “What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it? Life On Mars. I’ve still got it and I remember buying it in 1973 from Woolworths on Birkenhead High Street. I was 11. I just loved it to death.
Pictures Of Lily : The Telegraph : 06/02/01. From Neil McCormick’s review of Substitute : The Songs Of the Who. David Bowie breathes new life into Pictures Of Lily with colourful Ziggy Stardust stylings.
Blood and Glitter : MOJO : July 2001. From Mojo’s review of Blood and Glitter. “Mick Rock celebrates the star spangled egos of rock ‘n’ roll in the days when Ziggy Stardust reigned supreme, and his mutant bastard son Johnny Rotten was a cosmic gob waiting to happen”.
Pictures Of Lily : Uncut : July 2001. From Uncut’s review of Substitute : the Songs Of The Who. …and of course there’s Bowie, whose slow but steady ‘Pictures of Lily’ arrives like the long-lost relative of his previous Who tributes on 1973’s ‘Pin Ups’
‘Heroes’ : NME : 06/09/01. NME asked some of our youngest MP’s some important political questions in the run up to the election. Thomas Docherty, Labour MP for North Tayside was asked about his favourite song. The answer was ‘Heroes’ by David Bowie.
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