Godddamn! David Bowie is a genius! - Democratic Underground

Taverner

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Fri Aug-15-08 12:45 PM
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Godddamn! David Bowie is a genius!

Listening to a 1976 show from Wolfgang's Vault - damn he was good live! I don't think I've heard a bad Bowie concert!

And every album he did until 1980....

And did you know he wrote My Way?

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Connonym

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Fri Aug-15-08 12:53 PM
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1. The Frank Sinatra "My Way"?

woah, I did not know that. I bet he's a gazillionaire just from that alone.

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FKA MNChimpH8R

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Fri Aug-15-08 12:55 PM
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3. A couple of Frenchmen wrote the music for that

Edited on Fri Aug-15-08 12:57 PM by FKA MNChimpH8R

and i am pretty sure that Paul Anka wrote the English lyrics.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way_(Frank_Sinatra_album)

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Taverner

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Fri Aug-15-08 12:57 PM
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4. Oops, my bad - He tried to write the English lyrics. Anka beat him to it.

"When David Bowie was asked to write English lyrics to "Comme d'habitude" in 1968, the song he came up with was "Even a Fool Learns to Love." However, Paul Anka bought the rights to the original French version, and Bowie's version was never released. "Life on Mars?" was Bowie's riposte to losing out on a fortune; it has similar chords to "My Way.""

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way_(song)

Bowie later re-purposed the song as "Life on Mars"

Listen to them side by side sometime.

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FKA MNChimpH8R

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Fri Aug-15-08 12:54 PM
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2. He's always had great, and very underrated,

bands and is incredibly charismatic. David Bowie and Bryan Ferry have been cooler longer than anyone since Louis Armstrong.

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Manifestor_of_Light

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Fri Aug-15-08 06:05 PM
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5. "Reality" is excellent.

That's a fairly recent CD.
"This is Not America" is great, written with Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays for the movie "The Falcon and the Snowman".

Or as my offspring said, "Sting is coasting. David Bowie isn't".

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Amerigo Vespucci

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Fri Aug-15-08 06:08 PM
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6. "I'm David Bowie. I live down the road."

Little Drummer Boy - David Bowie & Bing Crosby (HQ Audio)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9KpNznVLlY

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Fri Aug-15-08 06:17 PM
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7. Did you know that he was...

the Sovereign of the Guild of Calamitous Intent?

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