Month: June 2001

People stared at the makeup on his face…

Question number six in our Blood and Glitter competition.

Question Six:
Who is the man in the picture above?…no, not the one on the right, the other one!

We will post details of how to enter the competition when we post the final question on Friday.

This week’s edition of Entertainment Weekly, dated June 1st and available now, has this fun caricature of David. He is chosen as “Winner of the Week” because “His golden oldies figure prominently in two high-profile current films, Moulin Rouge and A Knight’s Tale”.

(Thanks a lot to russ, bonster, helen2, jamantyla and susans – all of whom had a hand in bringing you this item. Aint it great when we all work together!)

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You belong in rock ‘n roll…

Question number five in our Blood and Glitter competition.

Question Five:
List ten David Bowie compositions that contain the word ROCK. Each song must have a songwriting credit to David Bowie alone. For example, the song ‘Gunman’ contains the word ROCK in the line: “Like a rock of death”, but, it is credited to David Bowie and Adrian Belew, so it won’t do. On the other hand, the song ‘Changes’ contains the word ROCK in the line: “Oh, look out you rock ‘n rollers”, and being credited to David Bowie alone, it could be one of your ten.

Remember you needn’t worry about sending your answers in until you have all ten. We will post details of how to enter the competition when we post the final question on Friday, June 8th.

That takes us half way through the competition. To recap, I have re-posted questions one to four below:

Question One:
Of the 58 songs that are on the current BowieNet, BowieRadio Station 2 playlist, two are from albums which have cover photographs taken by Mick Rock. Name those two albums.

Mick Rock and Ziggy Stardust at the Rock Style
exhibition in London by Total Blam Blam.

Question Two:
We all know that the picture that Mick is sitting below in the photograph above was taken at Haddon Hall, but where specifically in the building was it taken?

Question Three:
In his foreword for Blood and Glitter, David Bowie described William Burroughs how?

Question Four:
Name two other books, apart from ‘Blood and Glitter’, that have had a Mick Rock author credit.

Substitute – The Songs of the Who : Guardian : 5/25/01 From their review of the album :- “Pick of the bunch is David Bowie‘s extraordinarily Ziggy-era-sounding take on masturbation anthem, Pictures of Lily.”

Radiohead, Amnesiac : Q : July 2001. In his review, Danny Eccleston compares the relationship of Kid A and Amnesiac to that of “Heroes” and Low. “Amnesiac is a companion work to Kid A in the way that David Bowie‘s “Heroes” complements Low.” “Heroes” also features in the “Like this? Try these….” section accompanying the review.

Dylan at 60 : USA Today Edna Gundersen discusses Dylan’s influence. “British glam-rock pioneer David Bowie, who toasted the bard on 1972’s Song for Bob Dylan, notes, “Dylan taught my generation that it was OK to write pop songs about your worst nightmares.”

Cat People : Salon.com. Joey Sweeney (musician) remembers the lessons his dad taught him. Both of us were really into the soundtrack “The Cat People”, companion to a forgotten erotic thriller with one great David Bowie song (“Putting out the fire with gasoline/ Putting out the fiy-ah with gass-o-leee-eee-een!”).

(contributors bonster, spaceface)

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“Son now here’s another little something”

Ahead of this coming Monday’s release of ‘Substitute – The Songs Of The Who’ is a free, three-track promo to readers of The Daily Telegraph. In today’s edition is an advert for the above promo that features these three songs:

David Bowie – Pictures Of Lily
Ocean Colour Scene – Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
Fastball – The Real Me

Be warned though, you have to go and actually claim your promo from a participating Virgin Megastore with a voucher from tomorrow’s edition of the popular broadsheet. But I know you’ll all still help the album into the UK charts because you’ll want the other stuff on the album too, even if this freebie does mean you can get the Bowie track for the price of a newspaper.

This promo also gives you the chance to compare David’s twenty-two-year-old version of ‘Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere’ that he recorded for PinUps, with the new Ocean Colour Scene version. This is where I avoid the temptation to be obvious…but, I’m a Bowie fan, and obviously his version whips the arse…oooops, nearly! };-)

Meanwhile, the advertising campaign in the UK moves up a gear, with the wholesale plastering of the capital’s billboards with posters for the album, and the use of David’s version of ‘Pictures Of Lily’ to advertise the album on the nation’s commercial radio stations.

Bowieart has just announced this year’s Take Home A Nude auction! This famous event “is an auction with a difference : alluring, provocative and intriguing, all works in the auction take the nude as its subject matter and all proceeds go to a great cause, The New York Academy of Arts.”

“There is a great line-up of artists including Eric Fischl, Sam Taylor-Wood, Jeff Koons, John Currin, Sol LeWitt and Todd Oldham as well as many others. David Bowie is contributing again this year and has donated three prints produced specially for the auction.”

“Pictured here is one of the prints, there are three variations on the print and each set in is an edition of only five. In this specially created print David has taken images of nudes both male and female, both are idealised though one is a fetishised drawing the other a realistic photograph, the two images have been entangled making viewing the original nudes problematic. How we normally view such images is brought into question.”

You may remember David’s contribution to Take Home A Nude last year – that beautiful triptych of Iman when she was expecting Alex. Whoever made the highest bid then has my green-eyed envy. The image above and the description of this year’s contributions also make my heart beat faster. Can’t wait to hear more!

Get on over to Bowieart , and check out details of how to order online, and full details of how to participate in this year’s auction.

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…the solid book we wrote cannot be found today

Here’s the fourth Blood and Glitter competition question.

Question Four:
Name two other books, apart from ‘Blood and Glitter’, that have had a Mick Rock author credit.

Remember you needn’t worry about sending your answers in until you have all ten. We will post details of how to enter the competition when we post the final question on Friday, June 8th.