October 28:
Business Age magazine in the first survey of its kind has named
Bowie Britain's richest rock star with a fortune valued at
$917 million, eclipsing Paul McCartney's $868 million, and
almost doubling the third place Tom Jones.
You can read the
full story here for the next few days.
(Ed: Personally, I'm always skeptical of such "fortune" assessments,
since there are many factors which a magzine/newspaper can only
guess at)
October 26:
Teenage Wildlifers on the ground in Brazil are reporting that Bowie
has landed in Rio de Janeiro, accompanied by Iman, and is spending the next
few days in a beach resort called Buzios.
October 25:
As reported previously, a live version of various acts from past
Bridge Benefit concerts will be released by Reprise Records
on November 18, and will include a track from Bowie's appearance
last year (the
track is rumoured to be "Heroes"). The album will be called
The Bridge School Concerts - Vol. One.,
and proceeds will benefit the Bridge School,
which specializes in programs for children with
speech and physical impairments.
October 24:
MTV is reporting (tentatively) that the video for
I'm Afraid Of Americans
will air this Sunday on MTV's 120 Minutes. In other news,
the single debuted in the Billboard Top 200 at #106, and at #20
in the Top Dance Tracks. Earthling
also got a little push from MTV's coverage, jumping 50% in numbers sold
from 987 to 1450. Total sales for the album in the USA are 135,418.
Thanks Edie.
October 21:
Two sources report that the BBC promotional single of
Lou Reed's
Perfect Day, which features Bowie singing a couple of lines
along with numerous other artists, will be released November 17 by Chrysalis
in three different versions. This wil probably be a UK only release.
October 20:
C|Net's new online directory service, Snap!
Online has awarded Teenage Wildlife its Best of the Web
award in its Entertainment Channel. My thanks to
all the contributors who
help make Teenage Wildlife what it is!!
October 17:
The November edition of
GQ Magazine
in the USA comes with a free Bowie CD (called "Earthling In The City").
Even better, it features two previously unreleased live tracks from the
50th birthday bash.
The tracks are:
- Little Wonder (3:44)
live Jan-9-97
- Seven Years In Tibet (3:59)
edit
- Pallas Athena (8:20)
live in Amsterdam Jun-6-97
- The Hearts Filthy Lesson
(5:03) live Jan-9-97
- Telling Lies (5:12)
Paradox Mix by A Guy Called Gerald
- Seven Years In Tibet (3:58)
Mandarin version
October 17:
The official site (www.davidbowie.com) is
holding a
competition
to give away 10 signed copies of the I'm Afraid Of Americans
single.
October 16:
New Yorkers tell me that the Tower appearance is definitely
not happening, although Tower is telling callers that it may be
rescheduled for November.
October 16:
GQ Awards show concert-goers were informed that VH1 US is planning
to screen the show on November 1. No word on whether it will include
the "full" Bowie show. More information
on time etc as it comes to hand.
October 13:
Hot off the press is news that Bowie will be performing a live 1 hour
concert on MTV's new program Tenspot, which airs at 10
p.m. Eastern Time (that's 7 p.m. for those of us on the Left
Coast). Bowie is a late
replacement for The Stones, who cancelled due to Mick Jagger
having the flu. This may be the best chance to get a good
video of Bowie performing songs from the Earthling tour (for your
own personal use, of course!)!
October 12:
Q Magazine is reporting that Goldie will have Bowie singing one
song on Goldie's upcoming album, Saturnz Return.
October 12:
Marco Vlieg wrote to tell me that
there will be a "Bowie-revival" night to be held next month (14th November)
in "Kadans", Meppel, Holland. There will be 3 bands (Moondust,
President Joe and Smoke) covering old and new Bowie material, together
with a fanclub stand (for
The Voyeur)
and probably a huge videoscreen showing Bowie videos. The night begins
at 21:30 and will last until after midnight. Admittance is free.
Contact Marco at M.Vlieg@KUB.nl
for more information.
October 9:
A tip hot off the wires says that Bowie will be appearing at
the Tower store on Broadway and 4th Street in New York City on
Tuesday, October 14 (day before the GQ show). This is ostensibly the
release date of the
I'm Afraid Of Americans
single, so he'll probably be promoting that.
I don't know the time yet, but Tower's number is
(212) 505-1500, if you want to call and try to confirm.
This is still an unconfirmed
appearance at this time!
October 9:
MTV US claims they will be showing a segment on the making of
the I'm Afraid Of Americans
video on their Week In Rock segment which usually plays
Friday and over the weekend.
October 8:
In a couple of recent interviews, Bowie has repeated his story about holding
another birthday benefit concert (complete with special guest performers)
next year to celebrate his 51st birthday (although he joked that he
would just keep calling it his 50th birthday). Bowie mentioned this
on MusiquePlus TV in Montreal during his concerts there, and again
during the Philadelphia studio recording session at Sigma Sound, where
he mentioned that it would be held in Los Angeles this year around.
However, we all know what a master he is at
Telling Lies, so don't
hold your breath too long ;)
October 7:
The video for the upcoming single release (Oct 14) of
I'm Afraid Of Americans,
which features 5 remixes by Trent Reznor, was shot on location in
New York City yesterday. Both Bowie and Reznor will appear in the video.
Rocktropolis.com had some on the scene cameras capturing
stills from the shoot.
In other Rocktropolis news, the site claims that the Boston
cybercast was the most watched cybercast in Web history.
October 3:
Dave Priest, maintainer of The Missing Link (listed on the
Links page
has written to inform me that his site is
temporarily down, due to a break-in. However,
readers should be assured that Dave is working hard and will get the
site back within the next two weeks.
October 1:
October will be a busy month for Bowie music collectors. There are a
number of new releases scheduled in the US for this month containing Bowie
tracks:
Include in that the Late Night with Conan O'Brien album
which features the acoustic version of
Dead Man Walking and
the November release of the Neil Young Bridge Benefit concert
(supposed to have an acoustic version of
"Heroes" on it), and you can
see there's quite a bevy of new Bowie releases.
Note that most of these are or will be
available for order online at CD Universe
