Gail's on rhythm guitar here (which doesn't take away from Darren's point that she's an excellent bassist). This is Mark Plati. Seems the pair of them took it in turns on bass and guitar duties for DB.
@@carolinegodden4364 Me too with the posters. One in his knitted body suit, the other was the cover of 'Life on Mars' when I was 10 😀 I'm ignoring the Essex part 😆
A true icon! An artist who could release absolutely excellent material, seminal albums to inspire a new generation. To then reinvent himself and go on to surpass that very generation he inspired. Unbelievable! RIP Bowie
Bowie was 52 years of age when he performed this great track. Saw him with Iggy when he played keyboards back in 1977, then on the Serious Moonlight Tour of 1983. A brilliant and mercurial musician who wasn't afraid of change. The body of work DB made throughout the decades remain unparalleled.
@@AndySmithCoachingLeaders Ig was great, the missing link between Jim Morrison and James Brown. Bowie was the consummate musician and slotted in with the rest of the band. Not once did he bring attention to himself. A class act.
It's certainly up there. Dunno if I could ever pick his "best" but having a hit like Space Oddity, then following the story up with something like this, so totally different, 15 years later is nothing short of remarkable. It's true genius
Great song, sure. But it's the use of layering and interesting sounds that grabs you. For beautiful chords, melody, harmony and lyrics look at "Something" by The Beatles as a perfect song. The harmonic shifts are incredible.
There are two things in my opinion that made Bowie an absolutely unique talent in rock history: 1) Bowie was able to create music that broke conventions and was undeniably strange, yet still hooked you from the first time you heard it. None of the "repeated listens required" stuff you get with the prog rockers of his era, from the first chords you're in. Even a song as weird as Beauty And The Beast (opening track of Heroes) just grabs you immediately and you'll be singing along before the song finishes playing. He made inaccessible music accessible. 2) Through all his reinventions, no matter what persona or style he adopted, from folk, to glam, to punk rock, to new romantic, to industrial and drum 'n bass, to soul and funk, to the jazzy coda to his career that was the phenomenal Blackstar....Bowie ultimately always sounds like Bowie. You'll never hear a Bowie song and think "this is a completely different artist from the guy who did Space Oddity". Listen to a Genesis or Queen song from the 1970s and compare it to their work from the 1990s and they sound like completely different bands. But Bowie always remained Bowie, no matter how drastic the changes to his music were.
No keyboard player has ever been able to replicate the sound of the main line in this song. The studio production applied to this song was just genius.
This is great but I agree, the studio version of that intro is just mind blowing and the louder you crank it up the more spine tingling it is. I adore this song, the whole album is indeed . . another Bowie masterpiece
@@charliericker274 - well, i'm a 60's child - and was born androgynous and odd; in the days of Farrah, and bullet proof hair - Bowie was my direction and guide in all ways to be an individual; an artist - and to keep doing so unapologetically.
my girlfriend back in the 80's did meet him - a couple of times - and damn -wish i could have been there - ; everyone always swore they could have been twins separated at birth - and what i would have given just to see them together - (and get a photo! )
@@alysmarcus7747 That's incredible. Personally, I'm a 2000s baby. I'm gay and non-binary, and Bowie was instrumental in me realizing and accepting my identity. He's inspired my music, my style, my life, really, and I don't know what I would have done without him. It's amazing to see what he's done across generations.
I am lucky to have seen EVERY concert David performed in Australia during his entire career. Yep I'm an old goat. (60) I was lucky to be in law enforcement and get myself on 'stadium security' whenever he toured....free gigs for me! BUT the last I saw I paid for!...was the 'Reality Tour' and he was really at his best, he was amazing, you could see that he was really, really enjoying himself on that tour out of all that I saw before.....I don't know but maybe he knew it was his last tour. IT WAS THE BEST!
Bowie, like Prince, were that rare artist whose records and live music were two completely different beasts. You kinda had to experience both to fully appreciate what they were doing. Monsters, both of 'em.
I was a teenager when Bowie first appeared on the scene in the 7O's in CA and he blew my mind, I knew he was really something special. I was 14, in the mall, and they had huge pictures of him hanging all over to promote his latest record and to me, really, at that moment in my teenage heart, he was a god.
Dude NEVER failed to bring the very best musicianship to the table, on any given evening , and then proceed to blow the roof off a place. What a absolute legend .
My brother introduced me to the album ' Ziggy Stardust ' and he used to dress like him and his hair also. He died in 1994 in a works accident and Bowie joined him in heaven,☮️☮️☮️😢☹️
'I would Never Have Any Intention Of Accepting Any thing Like That' that's the quote from Bowie refusing a CBE and a Knighthood. Not only totally inventive in style and music but a true rebel, his peers were writers, musicians and artists NOT royalty. The public's love of his music is what mattered. The Man Who Fell To Earth Earth...RIP David and Thank You.
I saw him twice in 74. Diamond Dogs and Soul tours. Then Station tour in 76. Heroes tour in 78. Then playing piano for Iggy on the comeback tour. Golden years, indeed.
I just discovered his music song this year And now i miss him😢. I had heard his heroes song few years ago and it was my fav but didn't Googled the artist and now i regret it
I was a Beatles fan and when they split,i thought that was it and Bowie came along.What a bloody genius, specially his earlier music up to late 80s.RIP mate and thanks for the sound.One of the greats.
I heard this song long ago but to see it actually played live show how incredible and complicated is the interaction between all the instruments. And this bass line, my lord, this BASS LINE!
David was a worlwide singer...know by Freddy Mercury (Queen), Annie Lennox (Eurythmics)..etc unforgettable . Still listening this music of the 80's . Nothing better has been done so far in this decading world.
I never "got" Bowie until after his death. More than a musician, incredible appetite for life. I'm sure he wanted to live forever. Through his music he will.
And he went through many different phases so his albums have so much variety. Bowie is one of the very few true musical geniuses. I would start with his first 4 albums in order: Space Oddity, Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust.
I got Bowie the first time I saw him descend the stage in a glowing planet at Radio City Music Hall in 1972. You could add his production of Raw Power by Iggy Pop and Transformer by Lou Reed around the same time.
@@brendanmccabe8373 ...and also even if we include the REAL early stuff, that would be only 52 years from dawn (Liza Jane) 'till dusk (Blackstar). 1964 -2016, thus 5 decades.
Brought up on Bowie and the Stones and seen them both live. Like everyone else, shocked that Bowie had passed, but we are mortal. Talent that brought joy and happiness to millions of people - you cant get better than that! He is missed.
November 1973 London I used to work in Leicester square and everyday as I came out from Piccadilly circus underground stop walking my way to work, there it was this big giant picture at the Odeon theatre with David Bowie's face. Who could ever have the slightest idea that I was passing by a Show of one of the greatest singer in UK music history?!? Pity I never walked in to watch him live years before his worldwide success
