Watch David Byrne Lead a Large Choir in Singing David Bowie’s “Heroes”

By means of­out the years, we’ve fea­tured per­for­mances of Choir!Choir!Choir!–a big ama­teur choir from Toron­to that meets week­ly and sings their hearts out. You’ve seen them sing Prince’s “When Doves Cry,” Soundgar­den’s “Black Gap Solar” (to hon­or Chris Cor­nell) and Leonard Cohen’s “Hal­lelu­jah.” Should you dig by way of their Youtube archive, you can too revis­it per­for­mances…

Freddie Mercury & David Bowie’s Remoted Vocals for Queen’s “Beneath Stress” (1981)

Within the sum­mer of 1981, the British band Queen was file­ing tracks for his or her tenth stu­dio album, Sizzling House, at Moun­tain Stu­dios in Mon­treux, Switzer­land. Because it hap­pened, David Bowie had sched­uled time on the similar stu­dio to file the title music for the film Cat Peo­ple. Earlier than lengthy, Bowie stopped by…

David Bowie’s Modern Mug Shot From His 1976 Marijuana Bust

David Bowie all the time man­aged to look cool, even when he was being booked for a felony. In ear­ly 1976, Bowie was on his “Iso­lar” tour, per­type­ing because the Skinny White Duke, a per­sona he would describe as “a really Aryan fas­cist sort — a would-be roman­tic with no emo­tions in any respect.” Bowie…

David Bowie’s 100 Should Learn Books

Picture by Avro, by way of Wiki­me­dia Com­mons In 2013, the cura­tors of the tour­ing muse­um exhib­it “David Bowie Is” launched an inventory of David Bowie’s 100 favourite reads, professional­vid­ing us with deep­er insights into his lit­er­ary tastes. Cov­er­ing fic­tion and non-fic­tion, the record spans six a long time, mov­ing from Richard Wright’s mem­oir Black…