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=="I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday" cover == | =="I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday" cover == | ||
From [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Tie_White_Noise Black Tie White Noise - Wikipedia], a quote from an interview with Rolling Stone: | From [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Tie_White_Noise Black Tie White Noise - Wikipedia], a quote from an interview with Rolling Stone:<br> | ||
Bowie had reconnected with Mick Ronson partly due to Ronson's involvement in Morrissey's most recent album ''Your Arsenal'', which Bowie was impressed with enough that he recorded a "totally camp" cover of the album's Bowie-esque "I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday". "It's me singing Morrissey singing me," Bowie said.<br> | |||
Bowie had reconnected with Mick Ronson partly due to Ronson's involvement in Morrissey's most recent album ''Your Arsenal'', which Bowie was impressed with enough that he recorded a "totally camp" cover of the album's Bowie-esque "I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday". "It's me singing Morrissey singing me," Bowie said. | According to [https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/david-bowie-morrissey-cover-ended-friendship/ "How David Bowie's cover of Morrissey's 'I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday' ended their friendship" - Far Out]:<br> | ||
It then appeared as if the relationship was further bonded a few years later in 1993 when Bowie took on Morrissey’s own song ‘I Know It’s Gonna Happen Someday’ for his covers album Black Tie White Noise. But while the idea of covering a song is often centred around a great deal of respect, Bowie chose this song as a pointed jab at Morrissey.<br> | |||
According to [https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/david-bowie-morrissey-cover-ended-friendship/ "How David Bowie's cover of Morrissey's 'I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday' ended their friendship" - Far Out]: | The dig came as Bowie realised that there were certainly similarities to his and the Moz song. The coda saxophone arrangement on ‘Someday’ was incredibly similar to that of ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide’. “It occurred to me that he was spoofing one of my earlier songs, and I thought, I’m not going to let him get away with that,” Bowie later said of the choice.<br> | ||
From [https://www.songfacts.com/facts/morrissey/i-know-its-gonna-happen-someday "I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday" - Songfacts]:<br> | |||
It then appeared as if the relationship was further bonded a few years later in 1993 when Bowie took on Morrissey’s own song ‘I Know It’s Gonna Happen Someday’ for his covers album Black Tie White Noise. But while the idea of covering a song is often centred around a great deal of respect, Bowie chose this song as a pointed jab at Morrissey. | Bowie covered this on his 1993 Black Tie White Noise album. On the album's DVD, Bowie remarked: "I always thought of the English singer-songwriter, Morrissey, as a sort of a sexual Alan Bennett - the British playwright - because of his attention to detail. He'll take a small subject matter and make a very grandiose statement of it."<br> | ||
The dig came as Bowie realised that there were certainly similarities to his and the Moz song. The coda saxophone arrangement on ‘Someday’ was incredibly similar to that of ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide’. “It occurred to me that he was spoofing one of my earlier songs, and I thought, I’m not going to let him get away with that,” Bowie later said of the choice. | |||
From [https://www.songfacts.com/facts/morrissey/i-know-its-gonna-happen-someday "I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday" - Songfacts]: | |||
Bowie covered this on his 1993 Black Tie White Noise album. On the album's DVD, Bowie remarked: "I always thought of the English singer-songwriter, Morrissey, as a sort of a sexual Alan Bennett - the British playwright - because of his attention to detail. He'll take a small subject matter and make a very grandiose statement of it." | |||
"His last album, Your Arsenal, was produced, ironically, by Mick Ronson," Bowie continued. "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." | "His last album, Your Arsenal, was produced, ironically, by Mick Ronson," Bowie continued. "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." | ||
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==Morrissey support on 1995 Outside Tour== | ==Morrissey support on 1995 Outside Tour== | ||
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Bowie went on to reject Morrissey’s proposal to use a photo of the two of them for EMI’s reissue of The Last Of The Famous International Playboys in 2013, so perhaps he didn’t quite understand “junior high ribbing.” | Bowie went on to reject Morrissey’s proposal to use a photo of the two of them for EMI’s reissue of The Last Of The Famous International Playboys in 2013, so perhaps he didn’t quite understand “junior high ribbing.” | ||
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Excerpt from a [https://www.morrissey-solo.com/content/interview/times/ Morrissey 1999 Times magazine interview]: | Excerpt from a [https://www.morrissey-solo.com/content/interview/times/ Morrissey 1999 Times magazine interview]: | ||
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