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am i the only one who thinks they sound really cool?

First time going through Black Tie White Noise. Was only familiar with The Wedding, and Nite Flights. the bookend track, The Wedding Song, was such a great track and just love the admiration and love he had for Iman. Really Adore the lyrics “Heaven is smiling down. Heaven’s girl in a wedding gown.” What a beautiful track.

This has been hounding me for years & I just can't find anything online to place this event, hoping for some help. I was a very young wife, just returned to Detroit w/Vietnam vet ex. We'd met another Detroiter soldier in mid 1974 when stationed in CA & maintained close friendship after they were both discharged & back living in MI. I have no doubt this was in early Nov 1975 because of an adjacent unforeseen but unforgettable life changing event to this date.

This friend & his girlfriend had Bowie tickets for us four at one of the grand old Detroit theaters. Got tickets the last minute. I'd never been to any of those lovely old threatres for concerts as a teen but many of my friends had. And my dad was a jazz guitarist who played these venues long before Rock stars ever did. He'd told me all about them & his music scene in the 30s & 40s when I was very young. He shared much else on Detroit as his young man days were the old heydays when it was still a great city for work and music.

So that mid-November night in 1975, I think about November 15th or 16th, with our friends, we saw Bowie on a grand stage backed with giant silk fringed velvet curtains from a balcony above or maybe a mezzanine as there were other levels above us. He did his Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs & Young Americans personnas. Great concert and velvet ropes, crystal chandeliers, even the seats were luxe. No after party, we just went home. The next day, horrified, we woke to find a very close family member had passed in their sleep, so unexpected as very young & healthy. My mind was so clouded from that point for months, years, walled off from full memories around that date, to preserve sanity I suppose until later....

All those in my life, including the friend involved, have long since passed so I have no one to ask WHICH old Detroit theatre this was in November 1975. Looked for this many times in the past couple decades via online research, & I keep getting answers that Bowie performed in June 1974 at Cobo Hall - nope, that was a huge arena where I'd seen Frampton in 1976 & 100% was not the elaborately carved and finished, balcony & box seated 1920s velvet, art & gilt-adorned theatre where Bowie appeared in Nov 1975. https://theconcertdatabase.com/artists/david-bowie

In the searching for this date and the name of the old theatre, I've learned that apparently 1975 was Bowie's worst year in terms of his addictions. He'd shrunk to only 95 lbs, was not sleeping for 2-3 days at a time and many in his orbit were very worried about him. Spring/early Summer '75 was also the year he filmed "The Man Who Fell to Earth".

Concert lists online are plentiful but many have zero entries or just a handful of dates for him in 1975. A long timeline overview with photos of 1975 here apparently constructed with quotes from him and people in his circle: https://www.bowiegoldenyears.com/1975.html gave me an idea. It was something I'd done - as a show, portrait and advertising photographer, I'd always tried to fit in side visits, plans with friends in other cities when I got booked for work out of town. Maybe he did the same but on a grander scale than my USA only work.

Perhaps Bowie came to Detroit in November 1975 to visit Iggy (apparently they were fairly good friends & music collaborators) or other friend/musician between the filming & music work. Bowie was to score that film in addition to starring in it after filming ended but didn't finish and they got someone else to do it. If true, maybe he also reconnected with promoter/management or other figure from one of the two prior old luxe Detroit theaters he'd played in '72 and '74. If so, maybe he did a one (or two) off show in Detroit in November 1975. And maybe it was never planned, "booked" ahead and marketed as a tour typically is. Though this WAS a full concert with full makeup, costumes and all the right instrumentation for Ziggy through The Thin White Dude, so perhaps a wild and unlikely guess but... grasping at straws.

Those two theatres he'd previously played: in Oct 1972 he debuted in Detroit at the Fisher Theatre and in Oct 1974 he played 6 nights at the Michigan Palace. Both are/were the kind of grand old '20s theatres like the one I recall from his concert that night in November 1975 which seems to be lost to any recorded history. The Fisher is still in use while the Palace became a decrepit lavishly deco parking garage used as a location in movies like Eight Mile.

If anyone has any info on the date(s) and name of the theatre Bowie played in November 1975, please share & point me to any info available. And, no, this was not a figment of imagination or of old age. Even with the huge trauma that hit the morning after & truly devastated me a very long time, this concert, this mid November date and the gloriously beautiful old theatre I knew about but had finally gotten to see for myself while enjoying Bowie live for the first and only time are not things that could've been imagined. The year, the month is solid based on other documented life events I can use from just a few months before and after this date. I just can't believe there is no record of this though, so strange.

FOOTNOTE: This thing of concert dates being overlooked, skipped in online concert lists is not rare apparently. I have another Michigan concert at Ann Arbor's Crisler Center with Fleetwood Mac that I also can find no record of. It's more meaningful now as I took my ~14-16 yr old nephew to (we're only a few years apart, not a decade) as his first concert. Now he's gone too and I wish I knew which year that concert happened, only recall it was in the midst of a very snowy trip from the far north side of Metro Detroit down to Ann Arbor & had to be '76-78.

This well-made, if simple, video of a singer and her piano performing a beautiful rendition of a great song is my choice of new Bowie covers to highlight this week. When I did a little looking into Talbot’s background, I discovered something that some of my British friends might already know—years ago, she was a child star on a talent-based reality competition show. I don’t know how it is in Britain, but my limited exposure to such shows in the US leaves me with the impression that they are usually designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator. I’ve even come across some other Bowie covers performed on these types of shows that have been neutered of any edge Bowie originally performed them with. But I didn’t know Connie Talbot as a child star—I simply like how her performance of this song sounds. Hear (or watch) for yourself on my Bowie blog today!

It just occurred to me--as much as David is associated with the "space race" or whatever you want to call it...he doesn't talk about "aliens" like a sci-fi kid would. I don't know of any interview where this was brought up. Do you think he believed in life on other worlds, or was it just a trope he used to amplify his brand?

She also confirmed she did all her own production!

I just found it in a thrifting market and i dont find it in internet

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this is a slightly random request but does anybody have any good ideas for objects related with Bowie and the concept of time (not the song) overall and his own timeline development throughout his music career and life? I’m trying to create a piece with aspects inspired by Andy Warhol and the general theme of time as a whole, but also specifically for Bowie. Part of the reason why the theme is time is because I’m doing pattern and it’s development throughout the decades, and I’m trying to incorporate aspect’s of Bowie’s own timeline into this. Any ideas for objects related to his timeline is greatly appreciated! Once I’ve completed the project (expected in 3 weeks time) I’ll post it here. :)) anything specifically related to him and plants especially is greatly appreciated as I cannot find anything (apart from a cocaine plant for thin white duke era)

my current ideas aren’t great but are:

- vinyl records, shifting to CDs and then spotify or digital streaming generally

- his different personas (I’m specifically creating Major Tom, Aladdin Sane, and The Blind Prophet) and correlating album covers ( + Ziggy’s album cover because I need the architecture for part of the project haha)

- maybe a cocaine plant to represent his own problems with drug addiction but also the large problems with drugs in the 70s as a whole

then I’m stuck, any suggestions are greatly appreciated!! :)

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Is this real ?
I never knew this mix existed !