Letter #8
It's been a quiet time recently as far as Bowie news goes so this is
the first newsletter in almost a month. I'm adding a new section this
month called "BowieNet News", which is stuff taken from BowieNet (for
those of you not able or willing to subscribe). If this section
disappears from future editions of the newsletter, you'll know they
sent some large gentlemen around to my house to break both my legs ;-)
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MAIN NEWS
- *SCOOP* Confirmed: Earthling Live cancelled
- Coming soon: Ziggy Part 2???
- Third "Best Of" on the way soon?
- Bowie rules out touring until after 2000
- Bowie wins Much Music Video award
- Bowie holds online chat with BowieNet subscribers
- Chart news: Three Bowie albums in UK charts currently
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MUSIC NEWS
- A BMG source has confirmed that Earthling Live is cancelled. The
reason is poor sales of live albums in recent times meant that BMG
were unwilling to take the revenue drop a live album would generate in
comparison to a new Bowie studio album. This follows on from Virgin's
unwillingness in the US to release Earthling Live as the last album in
Bowie's contract with them (it seems they also want a studio album
instead), and means that unless Bowie finds someone else willing to
release the album at a later stage, we should file it under "Promised
But Never Happened". My BMG source believes the current intention is
to make some of the Earthling Live material (which is already mixed,
mastered and ready to go) available through BowieNet. Don't hold your
breath however.
- In the recent online chat with BowieNet subscribers (attended by
about 130 fans), Bowie said that the album that he, Reeves Gabrels and
Tony Visconti are working on is intended to be released in "early
1999", and there will hopefully be one or two other releases later
that year. However, he intends to skip the year 2000 and release new
material in 2001. Reports emanating from England suggest that record
stores are listing "Ziggy Stardust Part 2" as due for release in early
1999.
- In the same chat, Bowie said that EMI is planning an anthology for
release in a few years time which will likely include several
unreleased Tin Machine tracks. He also said that Glenn Branca, Tony
Oursler and himself have just started to talk around the idea of a
collaboration. This would probably be after 2000 as they've all got
fairly full calendars at the moment.
- Also from the chat, Bowie denied the rumour that he had recorded a
duet with Siouxsie and the Banshees, said that he and Iggy Pop have no
collaborations planned, and that he liked Marilyn Manson's cover of
"Golden Years".
- Rumours still abound that a "Best Of 80/87" (or "Best Of 80/90")
will soon be released. Teenage Wildlife reports that a "Best Of 80/90"
is listed for release in Japan on Novemver 26.
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TOUR NEWS
- In the recent online chat with BowieNet subscribers, Bowie said that
he planned "no live work until after 2000".
- Bassman's News page reports that a news item in Melbourne's "The Age
Entertainment Guide" (Friday 11 Sept) has the following:
-- Rumours that the Thin White Duke will be headlining this year's
Falls Festival are unfounded. The Sultan of Brunei, who paid the Spice
Girls $2 million to play at his son's birthday recently, is close to
securing Ziggy Stardust for New Year's Eve.
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MOVIE NEWS
- According to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, the Italian
western Il Mio West which stars Bowie as a "gun-toting pistolero" will
debut in Italian cinemas on December 14, just in time for Christmas.
- Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrenc was released by Second Sight Films on
September 14th in the UK. Unavailable for ten years, this digitally
remastered release is available in a full screen edition or a special
widescreen edition that also features the original cinema trailer.
Full Screen £13.99 RRP
Widescreen £14.99 RRP
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ART NEWS
- According to Teenage Wildlife, the Daniel Blaize Thorens art gallery
in Basel, Switzerland reports that their upcoming show will feature
two large paintings by Bowie, and they are planning a solo exhibition
of his work for next year. According to the owner, Bowie was not
present at Friday's opening for this current exhibition.
- Bowie and fellow artist and friend, Laurie Anderson, have
collaborated on a contribution to the "I LOVE NEW YORK - Crossover of
Contemporary Art" exhibition opening at the Museum Ludwig in Koln,
Germany November 6, 1998-February 1, 1999. The work is called 'LINE'
and consists of 20 drawings created 'mysteriously' by the two artists.
Details and photos to follow shortly.
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CHART NEWS (excerpted from Dara O'Kearney's Chartwatch. Read the full
thing at Bassman's site -
http://www.algonet.se/~bassman/andra%20sidor/dara%20chart%20pages/Dara%27sChart33.html)
UK TOP 200 ALBUMS
Best Of 69/74: 13, 20, 25, 34, 37, 45, 51, 52, 52, 69, 82, 80, 136,
193, out of top 200, 137, 116, 96, 108, 112, 122, 131, 114, 116, 115,
91, 95, 120, 134, 173, 170, 191, out for 3 weeks, 147, 187, out, out,
182, 116, 152, out
Low: 131, 128
Heroes: 164, 132
Station To Station: 170, 145
The big news this week is that all three studio albums recently
reissued mid-price make the chart, on the back of good promotion by
EMI and much media coverage. Low is faring the best of the three,
debuting last week at #131 and climbing three this week. Also climbing
are "Heroes" (up thirty two to #132) and Station To Station (up twenty
five to #145). Stage was also re-issued midprice, but didn't make the
chart.
"Best Of 69/74" has been off the charts for the last few weeks, but
don't rule out a return to the charts in the run-up to Xmas.
SUNMACHINE (Dario G single)
UK: 17, 30, 44
(Dance Top 30): 7, 24, out
Ireland (FM104 Dublin Top 40): 11, 10, 11, 13, 26
(Dance Top 10): 8
Netherlands (Veronica Top 100): 99, 90, 95
(Wateringse Top 43): 34, 29, out
Belgium (BRF Top 40): 37, out
Turkey (Funky C Club chart): 12, 8
Lithuania (M1 Top 40): 38, out
Moldova International Top 50: 48, 39, 40, out
EuroPop Dance chart: 14, 18
Germany (HR-3 International Hit Parade): 14, 18
Europe (Eurochart Top 100): 66
This single featuring Bowie on vocals failed to follow the first two
singles into the top 10, and is now dropping in the UK. Success across
the rest of Europe hasn't matched the previous two Dario G singles,
and on the overall European Top 100, the single debuts at #66.
WEDDING SINGER SOUNDTRACK (featuring China Girl)
US (Billboard): 90, 26, 9, 5, 9, 7, 11, 11, 19, 20, 25, 35, 52, 60,
70, 78, 65, 83, 86, 98, 103, 130, 127, 141, 151, 126, 72, 39, 36, 45,
50, 54, 62
Canada (Soundscan): 100, 47, 15, 15, 13, 12, 18, 23, 38, 45, 50, out,
147, 148, 53, 36, 34, 32, 31, 28
(alternative Top 50): 28, 12, 2, 2, 1, 1, 3, 4, 9, 11, 12, 14,
17, 21, 22, 21, 23, 24, 26, 25, 33, 35, 35, 40, 38, 14, 10, 11, 11, 8,
9
Australia: X, X, X, X, 13, 2, 1, 2, 2, 3, 5, 5, 6, 10, 7, 8, 10, 15,
19, 24, 23, 26, 38, 50, 49, 51
New Zealand: 25, 29, 16, 8, 3, 5, 2, 2, 5, 5, 6, 10, 10, 10, 10, 12,
19, 20, 24, 33, 45, 45
UK (Compilations chart): X, 15, 18, 18, 23, 22, 24, 23, 35, 50, out
Ireland: 12, 5, 6, 9, 8, 11, 17, 18, 21, 29
CDWorld: 17, 27, 2, 5, 5, 14, 27, out, 18
(Soundtrack chart): 7, 9, out, 9, out, 9, 10, 10
Internet voting chart: 94, 91, 61, 65, 89, 71, 73, out
The soundtrack has now gone double platinum in the US. It recently
climbed dramatically back up the US and Canadian charts, primarily as
a result of the movie being released on video. This effect seems to
have now reached a plateau. In Australia, New Zealand, the UK and
Ireland, it has also started to slip.
So far, it hasn't charted on the European mainland, so for the moment,
the nostalgia for 80s music the movie has engendered seems to be
restricted to the English-speaking world.
OTHER SNIPPETS
- Another album with a Bowie connection, the Mott The Hoople "All The
Young Dudes" boxset, debuts on the UK chart at #196 this week. Apart
from the normal Mott version of Bowie's "All The Young Dudes", the
boxset also includes Bowie's original demo (with Bowie on guide
vocals).
- "I'm Afraid Of Americans" has been on the Canadian Top 200 singles
for 47 weeks. This week, it drops 14 places to #82. Puff Daddy's "Been
Around The World" drops five this week to #58.
- The two Best Of's didn't make the Billboard charts in the US, but
they both debuted quite high on Tower Records Top 1000:
Best Of 69/74: 167, 288
Best Of 74/79: 246, 425
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BOWIENET NEWS
- One of the more interesting features of BowieNet is a journal kept
by Bowie. While a lot of it falls under the "interesting artists I had
dinner with last night" category, it does throw up some interesting
stuff. Some excerpts:
JOURNAL for Sunday, August 23rd, 1998
I should suppose that an interesting and nicely arbitrary way of
starting these journals is to make a few notes on various stories and
rumours that have been floating around on the Net, write a little on
what day-to-day life seems to hold, and maybe go back a few years, try
to catch a glimpse of all that.
So. Let's make a start with this. An Austrian newspaper was reporting
not so long ago, that Yoko Ono and I were to finance and be spectators
to a Herman Nitsch event in that feather and leather wearing land. As
you've possibly read somewhere, I'd made a press statement, as did
Yoko, that this simply wasn't true. I wasn't even sure that it was to
take place. Rumours of such dark deeds have such strong wings but
frequently make crash landings.
Needless to say, I've met Nitsch on several occasions and written of
him on one. He had heard that him and fellow artist, the alledged
suicide casualty, Rudolf Schwarzkogler had been given a nod in my
short story of 1994 'The Nathan Adler Diaries' that had accompanied
the album 'Outside.' Nitschs' deeply disturbing confrontations and
enactments of pagan-like blood sacrifices made a perfect if uneasy
companion to my Outside art-crime fable.
And, I suppose, it being a pleasant cool evening, him and his
considerably younger, attractive wife came to look over my show when
it played Vienna in 1997. Oh, what a surprise he were! Here was a
short, plump, red cheeked, long gray bearded perky Prof. On a scale of
one to ten I'd put him about 'Jolly.' The tiny baby soft hands. Full
of crinkly smiles and of sparkling eye he came over as a little like
Santa on a night off. Try as I might, I could not combine the
beautific face in front of me with the barely whispered of horrors of
his chosen artistic expression. For even today, in this post-Hirstian
era, his 1970s' exploits still leave ones mind whirling and the blood
curdling. Rather actually in this case.
After our show, with band in tow, we all went off to an industrial
style club where, my goodness yes, Herman cut-a-rug, jiggling like
some frenzied Friar Tuck. Lovely little feet though. Yum-yum.
JOURNAL for Monday, August 24rd, 1998
It will land, I think. Total indifference on the island gives me the
impression that Hurricane Bonnie will make some big noise. I'm due
back in NY on Friday so I'm watching every leaf and branch to catch
the slightest wind rustle. Maybe it'll hug the East Coast and not come
out here. Maybe it'll go to New Jersey, take the Tunnel, catch a show,
get a bite to eat then rip up 5th Avenue. I'll be there. I'll report.
Tried some new song ideas this morning. I'd been listening to the
sweet sound of the Semar Pegulingan, regularly called the gamelan or
Balinese orchestra. It never fails to transport me to another place
and way of thinking. the guitar, unusually, felt very familiar in my
hands and I played along to this enchanted music. Something very odd
came from all this and I must get it to Reevz and see what he makes of
it.
Later on this afternoon, listening to the Village Fugs, I put a bit of
paint to a four by four foot canvas. Like the music, it's quite simple
and positive in feel. I think it owes a lot to Picabia so that makes
me happy. Except I nicked a Picasso head for the foreground and an
upside down one, like Baselitz, for the background. Here's a rotten,
drained looking polaroid. The film must be really old because the real
painting is full of colour. Blues and pinks and some shiny green paper
that I stuck down first. (I think it was wrapping paper left over from
Christmas). The print looks less like an image, more like a memory.
JOURNAL TUESDAY AUG 25 1998
Back in journal-land, I found the Bowie diaries on Little Wonderworld
and, boy did they take me back. But did I write them? Well, here's the
awful truth. Not a word. This was a time when I had decided to give my
public life over to an extraordinary woman called Cherry Vanilla, an
actress and performer whom I had hired to be my PR..
I had seen her in the London performance of the Warhol play 'Pork'
(written of course by someone else). She had such a great sense of
humor and imagination that I told her to make things up about what
Ziggy/Bowie was doing and to publish it. Whenever these stories got
back to me, I would just confirm them and the events would become part
of my real/unreal life. Not so very different from the way many
celebrities conduct themselves in regular 'show-biz' really. So when
this teeny magazine out of the UK wanted me to write for them, I just
passed the job on to Cherry. And of course, she just wrote about her
own life, like what shows she was seeing, where she ate and all that.
If Cherry loved or hated something or someone it was Ziggy/Bowie who
loved/hated it. You get the idea. Some of the events she wrote about
did happen to me but you can assume that most of anything that is
taking place in New York is happening to Ms. Vanilla. The cute thing
is that every now and then she'd write how I had just come from seeing
this great new performer whom everyone should know about...Cherry
Vanilla.
The most frustrating thing about re-reading these diaries now is
trying to remember what I was actually doing as opposed to what Cherry
was doing. The embarrassment is that I sometimes remember.
Talking of fog, yes, Teenage Wildlife. I did just do a track of the
old Gershwin song 'A Foggy Day in London Town'. I was asked by the
people over at the Red Hot series of albums if I would contribute
something to their "Red Hot and Rhapsody" album which will feature the
work of George G. (It's his 100th anniversary this year). I said yes
like a shot when they told me I would be working with Angelo
Badalamenti, someone I've admired for years since I heard his scores
for the original "Twin Peaks" t.v. series and his work for the first
Julee Cruise album. All proceeds will go to AIDS research and
charities so it's not a bad one to buy. Should be available fairly
soon would imagine. More about this later.
Journal for Monday 31st Aug. 1998
2pm A news story that I could fill in right here. Paul Smith, Kate
Moss and myself have been asked by the Mini people to each design a
car for their launch of the new mini line. After these motors have
been shown around they'll get put in the London Design Museum. My idea
was not do something which said not so much about the car, but more
about the context in which it would be used. I went about this by
completely mirrorizing the thing so that wherever it's placed it
merely reflects the environment and the person or people who are
looking at it. I'm quite happy with the final result as it's become a
really frustrating experience trying to look at the car itself because
whatever is being reflected captures the focus, not the subject of the
machine itself. A bit Emperors New Clothes, really. If it were to
drive across country I suppose you'd see merely fragments of hill and
tree flashing down the road. Quite crash oriented I would imagine.
I'm pretty stoked about the recent spate of recording situations that
I've been involved in recently and I think you'd know why. Tony
Visconti, Reevz and I had a blast earlier this month working together
on the Lennon track 'Mother' for a tribute album that will surface
next year. But the really exciting prospect is that we're talking up
the notion of going on toward a full-blown album. (my songs, not
Johns. Is this confusing?) At the moment we're at the pooling ideas
stage but we've set a prelininary start date early next year. It's got
me into a real writing mood already and my initial doodlings have been
on keyboard as opposed to guitar so I think it will be a move into
some interesting areas not recently visited by me. I don't know. I'll
keep you posted.
5pm RUMOUR. I'm planning a stage production of a career retrospective.
Not true. As Teenage Wildlife speculated this story may have spun off
from the news that I'm working on a Ziggy project.
RUMOUR. Mike Garson and I are working on Trents new album. Mike, yes.
Me, no. Though of course I'm really looking foreward to hearing it. On
another subject of tunes. One plan that misfired this year was an idea
of mine to get highlights of the 1997 Earthling tour to you online.
For one reason or another that didn't pan out however I am going to
make available all those same tracks on Bowienet over the next while.
The first are already up. Check out Earthling unreleased tracks. By
the by, a great resource for very early tour info is at the Bassman
site.
JOURNAL for Wed. 2nd Sept. 1998
A couple of lines on RED HOT AND RHAPSODY. Working with just
orchestral backing is such a challenge. Angelo Badalamenti writes such
beautiful scores (e.g., Julee Cruise first album) that I really felt I
had to pull out all the stops. First stop smoking. Yeah..right. I quit
for the entire day before the studio session and then, out of pure
nerves, I started again the moment I walked into the control room. I
first met Angelo at a preview of David Lynchs Lost Highway movie on
which we had both worked and the overwhelming first impression was his
uncanny resemblance to Tony Mascia, my driver, security-guy and friend
for many, many years until his untimely death in1991.
I know many of you will remember Tony with great fondness as he
probably got you into a whole bunch of gigs for free over the years.
Well, Angelo has the exact same Bronx accent and if he had a beard you
would not be able to tell them apart. Same height and body weight and
all. Angelo talks about music with the same kind of sensitivity and
love that Tony would talk about, well, boxing. I would dearly love to
work with Angelo again.
JOURNAL for Sat. 5th Sept. 1998
There was obviously a monumental downpour last night. I had left my
work case lying open under the skylight. Very nearly an inch and a
half of water had poured in from an overhead leak. I wish that I'd
unpacked the damn case the night before. As it is, all my ZIP files
containing my artwork, song ideas, interviews and of course these
journals, are completely waterlogged. Same goes for a bunch of unseen
videos given to me by a producer from the Beeb (BBC) in order to
induce me to work on a proposed Britart series with him. Coco is
air-drying these for me, and Kate (Chertavian of Bowieart) is running
through her computer to see if they're o.k. Completely lost, alas, is
my trusty, soon to be rusty, DAT recorder. I've taped everyone from
Balthus to McQueen on this sturdy machine, now drowned.
Reevz invades in the afternoon to check out my new 16 track recordable
keyboard and to generally catch up with things, as we haven't seen
each other since the Visconti recording.
The day ends in pastoral manner as Iman and I travel Oxford bound in
the late afternoon stopping off for an extremely pleasant dinner at
Chequers with the PM, Tony Blair and his gracious wife, the lovely
Cherie.
Journal for Monday 7th Sept. 1998
Having convinced myself that the prior flood has fully abated and
dried I replug all my electrics back into the transformer and thence
into the wall. A gentle hum of potential fills my ears. I plow through
the manual for my new Trinity music workstation but end up doing what
Eno so generously taught me. I hide it. Then I mess about till I hear
something really interesting and record it. Voila. I write. Therefore
I am.
Journal for Tuesday 8th of Sept. 1998
Hilarious morning scooting around Soho looking at sari shops,
galleries and design studios with Iman and Coco. How very continental
London feels these days. It's all boys holding hands and pavement
cafes. Where DID they find this incredibly nice weather? We take
coffee at the Bar Italia, possibly the best coffee outside of Italy. I
first came here in the eighties with Julian Temple, the video
director. He had a small office in a back street and a fearful and
iconoclastic vision. He told me so many terrifying stories of his
travels with the Sex Pistols, all ODs and near murders. This
culminated of course in his bumpy but fascinating 'The Great Rock And
Roll Swindle' with its glorious quasi-video 'My Way' focusing on Sid.
Our own greatest moment as a team was a brave but rarely shown
nine-song video for the first Tin Machine album. I saw it only a week
or so ago and thought it looked great. So unlike anything that was
going on at the time. Or even now.
All very serious in the afternoon with a 21 publishing meeting. We're
at the planning stages now for our next tome by Mathew Collings. It's
called 'Wow Or Gee' and does for the New York art scene what 'Blimey'
did for the London lot. It's very perceptive while giving the
impression of being slightly dazed. And it's oh-so-Mathew.
A quick snack then at a new café called Alphabet where we bump into
new screen-rave Nick Moran, star of the hot new film here 'Lock, Stock
and Two Smoking Barrels'. He's so excited because the movie only cost
$1,300,000 AND IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING TO BE NUMBER ONE NEXT WEEK AND
DID YOU HEAR THAT THE SOUNDTRACK IS IN THE CHARTS WHICH IS SO COOL AND
HE REALLY NEEDED THIS PART 'CAUSE HE'S BEEN WORKING ON SMALL STUFF FOR
YEARS AND NOW HE CAN SHOW WHAT HE CAN REALLY DO AND THIS IS SO GREAT
FOR BRIT FILM ISN'T IT AND.... And I take his photo because he's just
so damned happy. That's something else you never used to see much of
here. I'm really liking this town.
Journal for Friday 11th Sept 1998
In a radio studio this afternoon with DJ and radio producer Mark
Goodier. We're supposed to be running a few question/answer things on
the EMI re-releases coming up next year. I try my best but find many
of my answers to the 'what were you thinking when you wrote this song'
definitely sketchy. We cover about four albums and apparently these
mumblings will find their way onto each of them. I have the good
fortune of having Mark's friend Emma on hand. She is a font of
information and prods my memory throughout. I keep a few strays back.
For a rainy day.
Evening comes and so does sculpture. I've been asked to contribute a
small piece of work to a London Gallery that is having a tie in with
Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. I finally put together a pair of
clockwork teeth, some wire and two of those slimy rubber eyeballs that
you buy from jokeshops. It looks slightly demented and chatters away
like a crazy disembodied DJ when wound up. I am calling it 'D&B".
Clue. Before I submit it I will paint the teeth gold.
Journal for Thurs. 17th Sept 1998
I'm walking quickly along Brick Lane in London as I've left myself a
bit late for a look-see at Stephen Cornells work. Stephen is the guy I
met at Damiens party the other night. Reevz and I wrote pretty late
into the night of the last, and then I had to get to a biz. meeting
this morning. I'm a bit torn between getting to his studio on time and
looking in the many small leather shops along here. Good clobber for a
reasonable price. No, art, as usual wins. The shops will still be
there later even if I remember I was half interested.
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OTHER NEWS
- Bowie won an Eye-Popper award (awarded to those who "explore and
explode the medium of video) at the Canadian Much Music awards show on
Thursday, and accepted his award from the Smashing Pumpkins with a
taped speech. The award's $3,500 prize money was signed over to Save
The Children as Bowie's charity of choice.
- In the recent online chat with BowieNet subscribers, Bowie said that
21 Talk (a collection of Bowie's interviews with artists and designers
over the years) will be published in book form by 21 Publishing next
spring, rather than November 1998 as Amazon.com currently has listed
for this title. 21 Publishing's next book will be Matthew Collings New
York Art from Warhol to Now, which is expected to be released in time
for the New Year.
- Teenage Wildlife reports that Black Rider Records, an independent
record label out of Athens, Georgia is readying a David Bowie tribute
CD for release November 10, featuring musicians and bands from the
local Athens area. The disc will be called Loving The Alien and is
available for preorder now for $US12. You can read more about the disc
including the tracks and bands as well as how to purchase the release
at http://www.angelfire.com/biz/lodger7/bowie.html
- Also from Teenage Wildlife: The cover of the newly released Sandro
Sursock album (called Zero Heroes) is designed by Bowie. Bowie makes
guest saxophone appearance on a track called Heat of the Flame on the
new album, which is only available in the UK.
In other news, the Daniel Blaize Thorens art gallery in Basel,
Switzerland reports that their upcoming show will feature just two
large paintings by Bowie, but that they are planning a solo exhibition
of his work for next year. According to the owner, Bowie will not be
present at Friday's opening for this current exhibition.
- Little Wonderworld reports that a Japanese film crew has been
following Goldie around the world for the last few months making a
documentary, which also features footage of Bowie with Goldie at the
Chisholm House Art Gallery. It will be screened on British TV next
month. Also, a new series of satirical programme Stella Street starts
this month on BBC2, featuring the likes of David Bowie, Mick Jagger,
Keith Richards, Al Pacino, Michael Caine, Roger Moore, Jack Nicholson,
John Hurt and Joe Pesci, all performed by John Sessions and Phil
Cornwell.
- Bowie made an impressive showing in a major poll in the U.K., "The
Virgin Top 1,000 Albums Of All Time." The results of this newly
published poll--based on 200,000 votes cast in pop polls over the past
30 years--found Bowie and the Beatles as the only artists in the Top
20 with more than one album. BOowie is also the only solo artist in
the Top 20 with more than one entry, for The Rise and Fall of Ziggy
Stardust and The Spiders From Mars (#11) and Hunky Dory (#16). In
addition, Bowie is also the highest ranking solo artist on the chart
(with Ziggy at #11). In all, 9 Bowie albums made the all-time top
1000, and Bowie was #5 in the artists list for total votes attracted.
- Dotmusic (http://www.dotmusic.com), the online site for UK trade mag
Music Week has a weekly poll for the Top 100 Albums Of All Time.
Currently there are 6 Bowie albums on the chart (more than for any
other act):
Ziggy 22 (up 1)
Low 46 (down 1)
Hunky Dory 48 (same as last week)
Station To Station 65 (up 2)
Diamond Dogs 76 (up 3)
Young Americans 92 (up 1)
Earthling was on the charts a few weeks ago, but dropped off.
Also, Bowie tops the chart for the number of albums of his that have
been attracting votes. A whopping 24 different Bowie albums got votes
last week.
Position Artist Number Of Albums
1 David Bowie 24
2 Bob Dylan 19
3 Elton John 18
4 Mariah Carey 15
5 Genesis 15
6 Duran Duran 14
7 Madonna 14
8 U2 12
9 Bruce Springsteen 12
10 Kate Bush 11
Go to http://www.dotmusic.com/premier/others/index.html if you want to
vote.
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