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David Bowie Instagram – David Bowie: January 8th 1947 – January 10th 2016 (Photo by Jimmy King 2015) #BowieForever

David Bowie Instagram - David Bowie: January 8th 1947 - January 10th 2016 (Photo by Jimmy King 2015) #BowieForever

David Bowie Instagram – David Bowie: January 8th 1947 – January 10th 2016

(Photo by Jimmy King 2015)

#BowieForever | Posted on 10/Jan/2024 08:39:29

David Bowie Instagram – LULU’S MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD IS FIFTY TODAY

“He said I was his friend…”

Fifty years ago today on Friday 11th January 1974, a 25-year-old Lulu launched the first of a few career resurrections in the shape of the Bowie-penned 45, The Man Who Sold The World/Watch That Man.

Produced and arranged by David Bowie and Mick Ronson the track reached #3 on the official UK singles chart, Lulu’s first top ten hit for five years.

It’s a superb record with a cracking arrangement quite different to the original Bowie track first recorded for the album of the same name in 1970.

Bowie provided backing vocals and a wonderful sax hook, while Ronno plays a solid riff throughout, all new to Lulu’s version which was recorded in France during the Pin Ups sessions.

The unlikely coupling created lots of press around the release, the Daily Mirror article in our montage being just one such item.

Apparently, David was more than a bit partial to the Lulu version himself, this from the Moonage Daydream book:

“Lulu is such a bright, funny and talented little thing. When I first heard her version of ‘Shout’ I was initially gobsmacked that anybody British had the nerve to cover that Isley Brothers classic. Then I realised that she had actually done a great job with it. How the idea came up for having her do a version of ‘Man Who Sold The World’ I have no clue, but I’m so glad we did it. I used the Pin Ups line-up to back her, including Ronson and drummer Aynsley Dunbar, and played the sax section on overdubs. I still have a very soft spot for that version, though to have the same song covered by both Lulu and Nirvana still bemuses me to this day.”

Lulu went on to record a couple more songs with David that ended up on his own Young Americans album after he decided to keep them for himself…but that’s another story.

Check out Lulu singing The Man Who Sold The World here on YouTube: http://smarturl.it/LuluTMWSTW (Linktree in bio)

📸 Kent Gavin

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David Bowie Instagram – DAVID AND IMAN’S 25-YEAR-OLD BIRTHDAY FUN

“On his 52nd birthday…” *

On what would have been David’s 77th birthday, we look back 25 years to January 8th, 1999, to a snowy New York evening, when David and Iman took part in an online chat for BowieNet members in honour of David’s 52nd birthday.

Known to BowieNetters in the chatroom as Sailor, David would often drop in unannounced for random chats with whoever was around.

But this was scheduled and was rammed with everyone descending on the chatroom at once. In those days of dial-up, it could make for a frustrating experience trying to keep up with the flow.

Iman kicked off proceedings and David joined in a bit later. We already knew how funny David was, but it was great to witness Iman’s wicked sense of humour too. Here’s an example of that…

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LaughingGnome: Hi Iman and welcome to the wackiness! I was wandering how much you knew of David Bowie before you met him? Were you a fan?

Iman: Yes, I’ve always been a fan of David’s music and actually been to all his concerts since I arrived in America in 1976, but I have never went backstage. I have been invited to go backstage, but we all know why girls like me are invited backstage! So I never went.

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Thankfully, Paul Kinder over at BowieWonderworld had the foresight to save all the BowieNet Live chats, so you can read the full transcript with many contributions from David here: https://www.bowiewonderworld.com/chats/dbchatiman0199.htm (Linktree in bio)

Congratulations are also due today as BowieWonderworld celebrates its 27th birthday. BWW is the longest running Bowie fansite of them all and is possibly the most valuable Bowie resource out there. Well done Paul.

📸 Kevin Mazur – David Bowie and Iman at the MTV Video Music Awards at Metropolitan Opera House New York City, 9th September 1999.

* The original lyric from Uncle Arthur was “On his 32nd birthday…”

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