365 Days of Bowie Round 2, Day 72: Terry Cox
Today is Terry Cox’s Birthday. Terry played on Bowie’s 2nd self-titled album and was the drummer on Bowie’s hit Space Oddity. His career has spanned decades and is a member of the band Pentangle.
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365 Days of Bowie Round 2, Day 71: Starman Demo Auction
On March 12th 2019 a reel-to-reel tape given away by Mick Ronson was auctioned off for £51,000. The tape also contained Moonage Daydream and Hang onto Yourself.
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365 Days of Bowie Round 2, Day 70: David Bowie & Hutch @ University of Surrey
On March 11th 1969 Bowie & Hutch played the Guildford Arts Festival. Bowie introduced a rather flamboyant persona for this performance, surprising Hutch & delighting Manager Ken Pitt.
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365 Days of Bowie Round 2, Day 69: Les Mighall
March 10th is the Birthday of original Lower Third drummer Les Mighall. Les only played with the lower third for a few months as he decided being a touring musician was not right for him.
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365 Days of Bowie Round 2, Day 68: Bowie & the Ramones
on March 3rd 1979 Bowie hit up the after party for the Ramones at the Mudd Club after their show at the Pallidum earlier that night. Bowie was in town mixing Lodger.
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Producer Gus Dudgeon: We did this bloody silly song and - decided that he wanted to do a speeded-up voice - we got this idea that we would try and incorporate as many jokes about the word ‘gnome’ as we could think of - the really scary part. Technically it worked - what were we on?
365 Days of Bowie Round 2, Day 67: The Laughing Gnome
On March 8th 1967 the final recording session for this infamous song occurred.
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Fisher was also a member of the band Procol Harem, was a prominent record & soundtrack producer, and he also became a computer programmer in the mid-90s. He was noted for his usage of the Hammond M102 organ and stated: "Having a Hammond was like having a licensee to print money".
365 Days of Bowie Round 2, Day 66: Matthew Fisher Birthday
Born March 7th 1946 Matthew Fisher was one of a handful of piano players on tour with David Bowie in the early 70s.
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365 Days of Bowie Round 2, Day 65: The World of David Bowie
A completion album released by Decca on March 6th 1970 to cash in success Bowie had achieved with Space Oddity. It is an obvious cash grab it also has many great early Bowie songs.
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Crane & Sons at 35-36 Colmore Circus, Birmingham was this store’s address. Crane & Sons was a much larger musical instrument manufacturer who had many retail spaces. In the age of information at your fingertips there seem to be very little available on what happened to this company.
365 Days of Bowie Round 2, Day 64: Record Signing
On March 5th 1966 Bowie was at a record signing in Birmingham for his single Can’t Help Thinking About Me.
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365 Days of Bowie Round 2, Day 63: Television: Ready Steady Go!
David Bowie & the Buzz recorded Can’t Helping Thinking About Me for this BBC Show on March 4th 1966. Buzz member John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson remembered his first TV show quite fondly.
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Davie Jone’s upcoming BBC appearance on Gadzooks! It’s All Happening was under threat due to the length of Bowie’s hair. It continued Bowie’s long hair fight that started with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-Haired Men. It was all a publicity stunt.
365 Days of Bowie Round 2, Day 62: Davie’s Daily Mail Hair Article
March 3rd 1965 had the Daily Mail printing the article: “Row Over Davie’s Hair”
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Bowie worked with Hunt and his brother Tony during Iggy Pop’s Lust for Life album in 1977. Both Sales brothers had remained in Bowie’s mind and when he found guitarist Reeves Gabrels they coalesced into the band Tin Machine.
365 Days of Bowie Round 2, Day 61: Hunt Sales Birthday
Celebrating the birthday of Tin Machine drummer Hunt Sales. Hunt performed on several soundtracks, worked with Todd Rundgren, Iggy Pop, & David Bowie. He also released a solo album in 2019.
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Aretha Franklin would win that award in 1975 and that would be her 8th win in a row and she would go on to win 11 times out of 23 nominations. Bowie opened with: "Ladies and gentlemen, and others” but his appearance was more noted for the obvious decline from his drug use.
365 Days of Bowie Round 2, Day 60: 1975 Grammies
During the 1975 Grammy awards Bowie was tapped to present the Best R&B Vocal Performance - Female award.
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The Hype was made up of Bowie, Mick Ronson, Tony Visconti, and John Cambridge. They all had aliases in the band such as Rainbowman, Gangsterman, Hypeman, and Cowboyman. Their first performance ended up with them being laughed off stage with every homophobic slur sent their way.
365 Days of Bowie Round 2, Day 59: The Hype
On Feb 28th 1970 Bowie’s band the Hype had their debut show.
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Geoff was a friend of Bowie’s since childhood, sang backup vocals on numerous albums and published an illustrated book of his time with Bowie, titled: From Station to Station: Travels With Bowie 1973-76
365 Days of Bowie Round 2, Day 58: Geoff MacCormack (Warren Peace) Birthday
Wishing a happy birthday to Geoffrey MacCormack also known as Warren Peace.
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Gerry would also contribute to the Heathen, Reality, and The Next Day albums. He toured with Bowie for the Heathen & Reality tours. He was musical director for the latter tour as well.
Leonard was introduced to Bowie by producer Mark Plati. Gerry was instrumental during the work on the infamous Toy album as he was able to replicate a wide variety of guitar styles for the revamping of Bowie’s 1960s songs.
365 Days of Bowie Round 2, Day 57: Gerry Leonard Birthday
Gerry Leonard, Bowie’s guitarists throughout the 2000s was born on Feb 26th 1962.
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While Bowie recorded the vocals, they had a Milli Vanilli style frontman in Freddie Buretti who was the pretend frontman of the band that would be named Arnold Corns. The band’s singles failed on release and were spun into tracks on the Ziggy album.
After another failure to light the world on fire Bowie was having some issues with his record label. To get around this and to produce some music he hooked up with some college-aged neighbors who had a band called Rungk.
365 Days of Bowie Round 2, Day 56: Arnold Corns
On Feb 25th 1971 Bowie was in the studio recording with a band called Arnold Corns?
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365 Days of Bowie Round 2, Day 55: Brit Awards Tribute
On Feb 24th 2016 the Brit Awards paid tribute to David Bowie’s Career
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