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NEWS 8 brand new great covers in the "early project section" by Lady Stardust & Diamond Dogs, Roberto Celi, Absolute Beginners! AND REVIEWS + Rockit + LINKS - MTV.it - Kronic.it - Otakt.se - Indie-eye |
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INTRODUCTION by C.S.ROBERTS TIME takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth. It's not easy to believe that David Bowie, probably the only living immortal, has seen six decades on this earth, which would be a mighty sight more drab and uninspiring without him. It's not easy to believe he's recorded Five Years and Golden Years and Never Get Old and all the eternally young others. To many of us he is a hero, a dude, a poet, a prophet, a shifting ball of contradictions, a great singer, a great mover and strider. An icon who always eschewed the obvious, darting down the more challenging path. Chameleon, comedian, Corinthian and caricature – and that's just the “C”s. As Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, the Thin White Duke, he initiated psychic jailbreaks, messed with minds, started fires. Always starting fires, even when ashes were indisputably ashes. Glam rock, plastic soul, art attacks. Jumping the silent cars, looking for a plane or two, a new dimension or three. Still he lingers; we don't forget. “Some flamboyant front was very useful to me,” he told me once. “I was having a blast at first.” Did people once call him “Ziggy” face-to-face? |
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“ Sure. Well, not the band - to them I was, y'know, “Dave”. But everybody else did, yes. Everybody.” He added, “I would immerse myself. Transform into the thing I admired. Become it. Then move onto something else.” Whatever the genre, whatever the stakes, he's jumped in the river, holding hands. On numerous important occasions, he was the river. “I always found myself quite sweet, and easy to work with,” he said, smoking, angular, talking, laughing, looking a lot like David Bowie. England was the muse, then America, then Germany, then the global village idiots and virtual seers. He said anything goes, before everything had gone. He took it all too far, but is now the only survivor. We believe O Lord, we believe all the way. Turn, and face the strange. Brother. |
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01. Boys keep swinging - Mama Shamone 02. Conversation piece - The Gumo 03. Weeping wall - Drink to me 04. Letter to Hermione - Hollowblue + Luca Faggella 05. Hallo spaceboy - Atari 06. Life on Mars? - Lara Martelli 07. Ashes to ashes - Jeniferever 08. 'Heroes' - You should play in a band 09. Be my wife - Anthony Reynolds 10. Panic in Detroit - Christopher Saint 11. Kooks - Sunny days sets fire 12. Absolute beginners - Sunflower 13. Space oddity - Edwood 14. China girl - David Muldoon + Simone Meneghello 15. Beauty and the beast - Showroomdummies + M. Remiddi (Sunny days sets fire) + Zara Ruban, Mama Shamone 16. Let's dance - Outsider 17. Starman- Mimes of wine + Relù Merissan 18. All the madmen - King me All songs composed by David Bowie except track 1, 5, 8 by Bowie/Eno |
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CONTACT Repetition*Bowie gianluca@repetitionbowie.com Midfinger Ltd Italy Via Vetta d'Italia 131 21100 Varese Italy info@midfinger.net UK 20 Damien Street London E1 2hx info@midfinger.net Velvet Goldmine velvetgoldmine@velvegoldmine.it |
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