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5 giorni fa · On the day that we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Diamond Dogs and the release today of the Diamond Dogs picture disc and half-speed master, Jason Draper has written another in-depth piece titled: ‘Diamond Dogs’ At 50: A Track-By-Track Guide To Every Song On David Bowie’s Apocalyptic Nightmare. It’s a superb piece and you can read it ...
5 giorni fa · ‘Diamond Dogs’ Track-By-Track: A Guide To Every Song On The Album Future Legend. Amid canine howls and foreboding synths, Bowie weaves together lyrical references to William Burroughs (the 1971 novel The Wild Boys), vocal nods to Scott Walker (the former Walker Brother’s cover of Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s Any Day Now) and a snatch of the melody from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s ...
5 giorni fa · When David Bowie first began work on 1974's Diamond Dogs, he intended for it to be a conceptual album based on George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.. For those unfamiliar, that novel, first ...
5 giorni fa · Diamond Dogs marked the point at which David Bowie began to shed his glam-rock skin. He then embarked on one of rock's most expensive – and dangerous – tours. Released in the summer of 1974, Diamond Dogs found David Bowie navigating the dog days of the glam-rock era – a hot and sultry period before the cultural weather broke.
5 giorni fa · On 3 July 1973, at Hammersmith Odeon, Bowie retires Ziggy. The singer has become the embodiment of the decade’s wild contradictions; questing, cosmopolitan, a purveyor of liberated sexual attitudes with a bleak, apocalyptic mindset. By January 1974, Piccadilly’s lights are sometimes turned off due to shortages.
5 giorni fa · David Bowie Diamond Dogs, RCA Records 1974. So now comes Bowie sporting his Ziggy Stardust hairdo on the front cover and staring directly at the potential album-buyer, flanked by a pair of – what the hell are those? Are they the Diamond Dogs? And what is up with Bowie?
5 giorni fa · by Matt Friedlander about 3 hours ago. David Bowie released his memorable studio album Diamond Dogs 50 years ago, on May 24, 1974. The 11-track collection was the glam-rock legend’s first studio ...
