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LoafingOaf
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This has probably been mentioned before, but it's new to ME.
Yesterday I bought the reissue of the "Black Tie White Noise" album containing Bowie's cover of "I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday." The new edition comes with two CDs and a DVD.
On the DVD he talks a bit about the Morrissey cover, before showing a video of him singing it in high style amidst Christmas lights, at one point flicking a Bic and holding it high during a guitar solo. heh
Bowie's remarks are kind of interesting:
"I always thought of the English singer-songwriter, Morrissey, as a sort of a sexual - British playwright - because of his attention to detail. He'll take a small subject matter and make a very grandoise statement of it. His last album, 'Your Arsenal,' was produced, ironically, by Mick Ronson. And Mick sent me a copy of the tape and I couldn't but notice that one of the songs on the album - 'I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday' - was a kind of a parody of one of my earlier songs, 'Rock 'n' Roll Suicide.' And so I sort of thought it would be fun to take that song and do it the way I would've done it 1974ish."
Yesterday I bought the reissue of the "Black Tie White Noise" album containing Bowie's cover of "I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday." The new edition comes with two CDs and a DVD.
On the DVD he talks a bit about the Morrissey cover, before showing a video of him singing it in high style amidst Christmas lights, at one point flicking a Bic and holding it high during a guitar solo. heh
Bowie's remarks are kind of interesting:
"I always thought of the English singer-songwriter, Morrissey, as a sort of a sexual - British playwright - because of his attention to detail. He'll take a small subject matter and make a very grandoise statement of it. His last album, 'Your Arsenal,' was produced, ironically, by Mick Ronson. And Mick sent me a copy of the tape and I couldn't but notice that one of the songs on the album - 'I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday' - was a kind of a parody of one of my earlier songs, 'Rock 'n' Roll Suicide.' And so I sort of thought it would be fun to take that song and do it the way I would've done it 1974ish."