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Showing posts with label david bowie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label david bowie. Show all posts
Friday, June 8, 2012
Monday, March 1, 2010
China Girls
Bowie and Pop wrote "China Girl" for Pop's 1977 album The Idiot. As the story goes, Bowie recorded it for Let's Dance to help Pop with the royalties.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Passions
The Smiths/Morrissey fansite Passions Just Like Mine, an exhaustive summary of the borrowings of an allusive master, in an SftD must-read. The site reveals Morrissey as a songwriter set on filtering what he heard (and saw) through his own voice. Especially interesting is the section on the plays of Shelagh Delaney, whose A Taste of Honey and The Lion in Love are a veritable Rosetta Stone for the Smiths' early material.
Here's a line (from a song which the Passions site says may refer to Delaney) reworking Bowie...
Here's a line (from a song which the Passions site says may refer to Delaney) reworking Bowie...
Monday, December 21, 2009
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