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Showing posts with label David Bowie. Show all posts
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Sunday, April 18, 2021
Favourite UK & US Songs - February 1977
David Bowie, Earth Wind & Fire, Dave Gerrard, Thelma Houston, Eagles and more.
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Monday, April 12, 2021
Week 35 31-05-2018 1977 Special
Electric Light Orchestra, David Bowie, Earth Wind & Fire, Graham Parker & The Rumour, Leo Sayer and more.
Saturday, April 3, 2021
1970's JUKEBOX WITH STUART BUSBY - 14-10-2017 - 242 RADIO
An hour of classic 70's music with a Trio of Soul records, a comedy classic, a TV theme and a double decker from a featured artist... All knitted together with vintage radio jingles and archive commercials.
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Boney M., David Bowie, Heatwave, The Temptations, Jim Croce and more.
Monday, March 15, 2021
In Memory David Bowie
David Bowie died of Cancer in January 2015 of cancer. A real legend has died and a man that sold 140 million records and had changed the pop world forever.
F David Robert Jones was born in London in 1947 and in the 1960s had The Laughing Gnome and Space Oddity in the charts, the la ter becoming a No.1 late in the 1970s..
F David Robert Jones was born in London in 1947 and in the 1960s had The Laughing Gnome and Space Oddity in the charts, t
1970 he had minor chart hits with Prettiest Star and amazingly Changes.
In 1972 he really hit the UK single charts with hits like Starman from the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and was a song about an alien talking to the youth of planet Earth. The performance on Top of the Pops caused controversy with him dressed in a very tight shiny suit.
1972 had two more top ten hits with John I'm Only Dancing which was often spoken about as a gay relationship record . Jean Genie was the biggest chart record of that year getting to No.2 in the UK charts, which was inspired by Iggy Pop.
In 1973 from the album Alladin Sane came in Drive in Saturday a song about the aftermath of a war that nearly destroyed Earth . The next single was his version of My Way a song that would last forever and that was the amazing Life on Mars from the Hunky Dory album
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The last single also reached No.3 and was Sorrows.
1974 was a Bowie year too with four more top 30 hits the first being Rebel Rebel from Diamond Dogs and again more lyrics about sexuality, Rock N Roll Suicide and Diamond Dogs, followed by the Single Diamond Dogs. A cover version of Knock on Wood was a top ten hit too.
1975 gave David three top twenty hts . The first was Young Americans and Fame . Golden Years was his last hit of 1975 and came from the album Station to Station.
1976 no single hits, but in 1977 he was back with a top 3 hits with Sound and Vision and the amazing Heroes. This song was inspired by a German group and the producer was Toni Viconti who was married to chart topper Mary Hopkin.
No big hit the next year, but he left the 70s in 1979 with Boys Keep Swinging an a new Version of John I'm Only dancing.
Sunday, March 14, 2021
Soundtrack Of A Year: 1977 - Part 2
50 more hits from 1977.
This second part includes tracks by Eagles, Rod Stewart, Ruby Winters, Bread, Mary MacGregor, Commodores, Boz Scaggs, Boney M, Leo Sayer, Trammps, Gibson Brothers, Foreigner, Belle Epoque, Alessi, Carly Simon, Chicago, Fleetwood Mac, Flash And The Pan, Meri Wilson, The Spinners, Al Stewart, David Soul, Olivia Newton-John, Barbra Streisand, Stephen Bishop, Peter Gabriel, Yvonne Elliman, Bee Gees, Hot Chocolate, Stevie Wonder, 10cc, David Bowie, Delegation, Dana, Little River Band, ABBA, Jacksons, Odyssey, KC & The Sunshine Band, Boston, Mr. Big, Julie Covington, Queen, Elkie Brooks and Crosby, Stills & Nash.
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Roger Day counts down a classic chart from 1975
Roger Day counts down a classic chart from 1975
rhinestone cowboy by Glenn Campbell
I Only Have Eyes For You by Art Garfunkel
Love is the Drug by Roxy Music
Space Oddity by David Bowie
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Sunday, October 11, 2020
The Making of Space Oddity
Back in July 1969 the world was waiting
for Apollo 11 to launch and hopefully land man on the moon. Space
Oddity was released 9 days before the launch of Apollo.
But what was it about? Why did the BBC
ban it? Why did it take many years to get to No.1?
Why was Rick Wakeman and Herbie flowers
involved
Why did the stylophone become involved
in the story of the song?
Why did Hyde Park become involved?
The song came from the album David
Bowie,
The song is about astronaut Major Tom
and a mission, he will not return home from. Most people believe that
it was made especially to coincide with the moon landing at the same
time. According To Bowie he says the song was inspired by the sci fi
film 2001 a space odyssey.
Others say the record is a side swipe
at the British space program or the lack of it or the way the
American society had come so far technically but not morally.
The song never made a huge impact in
1969 although it did get in the top ten, but it was not until its
rerelease in 1975 that it became David’s first No. 1 single.
Despite its relatively poor chart
performance in 1969 it still went on to win the Ivor novella award.
It was in 1969 that David split from the record company DERAM and had
a temporary contract with Mercury who had heard a rough version of
space oddity.
John Hutchinson was the musical partner
to Bowie at this time. Hutchinson was
an important foil for Bowie during
this time, as a (usually) harmonizing backup vocalist and guitar
accompanist. He also helped Bowie with
his songs, including "Space Oddity," for which Hutch threw
in some chords and suggested scraping the guitar strings to simulate
to sound of a rocket launch, although Hutchinson did
not get a song writing credit.
Space Oddity kept being turned down
even by Beatles producer George Martin. One reason was that the song
was being closely associated with the Apollo 11 moon mission and if
anything had gone wrong on Apollo 11 the song would always be
associated with it.
In fact the BBC banned the song when it
was finally released for that very reason and it only got played
after the mission was complete.
The single was
prodded by Gus
Dudgeon.
Who went on to work with rocket man Elton john . Gus died in 2002.
The
track was recorded at Trident
Studios on
20 June 1969 (with overdubs a few days later) and used the
in-house session
player Rick
Wakeman who
was later to achieve fame with the progressive rock band Yes,
as well as Mick
Wayne (guitar), Herbie
Flowers (bass),
and Terry
Cox (drums).[6]
The
song was promoted in advertisements for the Stylophone,
played by Bowie on the record and heard in the background during the
opening verse.
In
a 2003 interview with Performing
Songwriter magazine,
Bowie explained: "In England, it was always presumed that it was
written about the space landing, because it kind of came to
prominence around the same time. But it actually wasn't. It was
written because of going to see the film 2001,
which I found amazing. I was out of my gourd anyway, I was very
stoned when I went to see it, several times, and it was really a
revelation to me. It got the song flowing. It was picked up by the
British television, and used as the background music for the landing
itself. I'm sure they really weren't listening to the lyric at all
(laughs). It wasn't a pleasant thing to juxtapose against a moon
landing. Of course, I was overjoyed that they did. Obviously, some
BBC official said, 'Oh, right then, that space song, Major Tom, blah
blah blah, that'll be great.' 'Um, but he gets stranded in space,
sir.' Nobody had the heart to tell the producer that."
During
1968 Bowie also had “a flirtation with smack,” he admitted years
later, and some have argued the icy majesty of “Space Oddity”
suggests it’s really a heroin song, the “liftoff” section
marking when the needle hits the vein.
It
was intended to be a duet: the opening verse was originally sung by
Hutchinson who had a lower range, while Bowie harmonized an octave
higher. Hutchinson as “ground control” again opened the second
verse until the big reveal: Major Tom speaks at last, with Bowie
finally appearing in his most resonant tone. Hutchinson recalled that
he and Bowie loved Bookends,
and here Hutchinson keeps to the ground as “Simon” while Bowie
wafts in as “Garfunkel.” Bowie’s skill as a singer had
developed enough, however, that he could play all the roles on “Space
Oddity,” ......recorded on 20 June 1969, debuted over the PA system
at the Rolling Stones’ free Hyde Park concert on 5 July, which had
become an impromptu funeral service for Brian Jones.
Monday, August 31, 2020
GREATEST HITS : 1975
The greatest hits of 1975 featuring hits by Queen, Bay City Rollers, Glitter Band, Sweet, David Bowie, ABBA, David Essex, Hot Chocolate, John Lennon, Elton John, Tammy Wynette, Barry Manilow ... and many more!
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Saturday, August 1, 2020
Saturday, June 6, 2020
GLAM ROCK : 3
*Please note that this playlist contains 2 songs by Gary Glitter - tracks 3 & 18*
A non-stop playlist of twenty-three Glam Rock hits of the 70's, including tracks by Slade, Gary Glitter, The Sweet, Roxy Music, The Glitter Band, David Bowie, T-Rex, Mud, Pilot, Alvin Stardust, Suzi Quatro, Wizzard, and more.
Sunday, March 29, 2020
70s Glam
70s Glam is rock and glitter – the sound of outrageous makeup, hairstyles, clothes and platform-soled boots. Look forward to David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop & The Stooges, Roxy Music, Sparks, T. Rex, The Flamin' Groovies, Thin Lizzy, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Slade, Queen, Abba, David Essex, Mott The Hoople, Sweet, Suzie Quatro, Nick Gilder and Fancy!
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