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DAVID BOWIE Released ‘SCARY MONSTERS (AND SUPER CREEPS) 45 Years Ago Today

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Significant longplayers from the past

12 September 2025

Eternal icon DAVID BOWIE released his 14th longplayer
SCARY MONSTERS (AND SUPER CREEPS) today 45 years
ago, on 12 September 1980.

His first album following the Berlin Trilogy – Low, Heroes and Lodger) was Bowie’s attempt
at creating a more commercial record after the trilogy proved successful artistically but less so commercially. It was co-produced by Tony Visconti., It topped the charts in the UK, Australia, France, New Zealand and peaked at #12 in the US.

The cover artwork of the LP is a large-scale collage by the artist Edward Bell featuring Bowie in the Pierrot costume worn in the ‘Ashes to Ashes’ video clip, along with photographs taken by the photographer Brian Duffy, who was reportedly upset by the final artwork, as he felt the cartoon demeaned his photographs.

The album’s lead single, Ashes To Ashes revisited
the character of Major Tom from Space Oddity.

Stereogum: “Scary Monsters would eventually be hailed as a successful marriage between Bowie’s experimental impulses and his songwriting acumen. Its infectious art-rock situated it perfectly at the dawn of new wave — a genre obviously heavily indebted to Bowie — yet at the same time it seemed to carry the whole preceding decade with it.

It was a capstone, summary, and new beginning all at once, emerging from Bowie’s dizzying ‘70s run.”

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British Music Monthly UNCUT Has New Issue Out With Cover Star DAVID BOWIE

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20 August 2025

The new Uncut Magazine issue contains a lot of Bowie, with several posters,
and a Map Of David Bowie’s America, that puts out the New York-set cover story
into the wider context of Bowie’s lengthy relationship with his adopted home
country.

Also stories about Ozzy Osbourne, Evan Dando, Ethel Cain,
Joan Shelley, Alabama Shakes, and multiple album reviews.

This month’s Free CD, dubbed ‘Sounds Of The New West Vol. 7′
features 15 tracks with artists such as Wednesday, Case Oats,
Eeve Adams, Slow Motion Cowboys, Friendship, and more.

You can purchase a copy and have it
sent to your home address. Info HERE.

DAVID BOWIE – Timeless Masterstroke ‘ASHES TO ASHES’ Released 45 Years Ago Today

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Top singles from the past

1 Augustus 2025

Eternal musical genius DAVID BOWIE scored one
of his many masterly hits with ASHES TO ASHES.

The classic stroke was released this
day 45 years ago, on 1 August 1980.
It topped the UK Singles Chart.

Bowie: “When I originally wrote about Major Tom, I was a very pragmatic and self-opinionated lad that thought he knew all about the great American dream and where it started and where it should stop. Here we had the great blast of American technological know-how shoving this guy up into space, but once he gets there he’s not quite sure why he’s there. And that’s where I left him.”

Later he said, jokingly, in an interview: “It really is an ode
to childhood, if you like, a popular nursery rhyme. It’s about
space men becoming junkies.”

It featured on his 14th LP, titled Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps).

Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
We know Major Tom’s a junkie
Strung out in heaven’s high
Hitting an all-time low

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26 July 2006 – Final TOP OF THE POPS Edition Taped

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26 July 2025

The final edition of legendary British record chart TV programme TOP OF THE POPS
was recorded at BBC Television Centre in London on 26 July 2006, today 29 years ago.
It was broadcasted on July 30th.

Just under 200 members of the public were in the audience for the show. Former classic performances from the Spice Girls, Wham!, Madonna, Beyoncé and Robbie Williams featured in the show alongside The Rolling Stones who were the very first band to appear on Top of the Pops on New Year’s Day in 1964.

TUTV‘s 3 picks of historic TOTP performances.

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DAVID BOWIE – Gospel Choir Single ‘MEMORY OF A FREE FESTIVAL’ Featuring MARC BOLAN Released 55 Years Ago Today

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12 June 2025

The late musical genius DAVID BOWIE (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016)
released a single, called MEMORY OF A FREE FESTIVAL on 12 June 1970,
today 55 years ago.

It featured on his 2nd self-titled LP.

The single featured Marc Bolan
on lead guitar and backing vocals.

Originally recorded as a 7-minute opus in 1969, it was reworked in 1970. His label
Mercury Records, believed that the track had a better chance of success as a single
than the LP’s track ‘The Prettiest Star’, released earlier in the year. Bowie and producer
Tony Visconti roughly split the track in half, re-recording it so both halves could
function as individual songs.

Biographer David Buckley described the song as “a sort of trippy retake of the Stones’ ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ but with a smiley lyric”. The track was written as a homage to
the Free Festival, organised by the Beckenham Arts Lab, which was held at Croydon
Road Recreation Ground in Beckenham (UK) on 16 August 1969.

Sounds like a hippie hymn turning, midway, into a gospel choir song.

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DAVID BOWIE Released His 9th Longplayer ‘YOUNG AMERICANS’ 50 Years Ago

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Classic albums from the past

8 March 2025

The late musical genius DAVID BOWIE released
his 9th LP YOUNG AMERICANS on 7 March 1975,
50 years ago.

The record showcased Bowie‘s interest in soul and R&B. Music critics
have described the sound as blue-eyed soul. Bowie himself labelled
the album’s sound “plastic soul“. It was his breakthrough album in
the US hitting #9. In the UK it peaked at #2.


The Independent (English newspaper): “Those rock historians who dismiss the album as a white elephant among Bowie’s 1970s output underestimate its significance. Because this was Bowie’s first display of true fearlessness, rock’s most celebrated shape-shifter attempting his first real post-fame metamorphosis.”

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