Month: October 2008

  • More War Child Album Updates

    Update #3:  It is official.  The War Child album to which David Bowie is contributing his song “Heroes” to be covered by TV On The Radio will be postponed until 2009 due to more artists showing interest.  Maybe we’ll get a double disc?  *hopes*

  • David Bowie Loses Memorabilia In Warehouse Fire?

    According to a couple different news sources, David Bowie, along with Elton John and Mick Jagger, lost $2 million worth of memorabilia in a fire at the Iron Mountain warehouse in London.  Reportedly the items that Bowie lost were some legal papers from his early days.  However, as I’ve bitched on here before, you can’t…

  • Iggy Drops A Big Ol’ Hint for David Bowie

    In a recent interview with Larry Ryan at the Independent, Iggy expressed interest in working with David Bowie sometime in the future.  When asked by Ryan “You reunited with the founding members of the Stooges when recording Skull Ring, do you think you will ever reunite with David Bowie to make any new music?” Iggy…

  • David Bowie Takes Song of the Year Title….For 1969

    As Rorschach would say, hurm. I’m not exactly sure of the purpose of the article written by Dan Cairn for the Times-Online, but nevertheless he has chosen David Bowie’s Space Oddity as the Song of the Year for 1969. Despite the fact that Cairn briefly gives play to the mistaken interpretation that Space Oddity is…

  • War Child Album Updates

    Update #1: In my previous post about the upcoming War Child album “Heroes”, I reported that the song David Bowie was contributing had not been released yet.   The official word from BowieNet is that the song will be….wait for it….don’t want to ruin the surprise….”Heroes“!  I know, right? Knock me over with a feather. …