Be My (Bowie) Wife

Season 1 Mid Season Episode 2 - Ashes to Ashes Video. You tube song link:    https://youtu.be/HyMm4rJemtI?si=ckmC0f4Kv5HQw9O4Topics referenced or discussed:   Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour MTVTop of the PopsThe Chart ShowMichael Jackson ‘Thriller’Peter Gabriel ‘Sledgehammer’ Bugles’ ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’Adam and the Ants Video PromosLodger videos“Heroes” videoBe My Wife video David MalletKenny Everett Video Show Michael Jackson ‘Black & White' Video Morphing Iman Jamiroquai 'Virtual Insanity' Video Smashing Pumpkins ‘Ava Adore’ videoPeter Greenaway’s ‘The Cook, The Thief, The Wife & His Lover’ CribbsThe OsbournesCable TV Sky Television Nine Inch Nails Videos / WatershedBSB’s The Power Station Doctor Who: 1980-1 seasonQuantel Imaging Solarisation The CleopatrasRichard Griffiths Fall of EaglesMonty Python’s ‘Surrounded by film’ sketch Cinematic naturalism Vs. Video stylisation NefertitiThe Blitz Kids’ Acolytes New Romantics Boy George-Marilyn-Spandau Ballet-Duran DuranMick JaggerSteve Strange-Visage Elise BrazierDarla Jane GilroyJudith FranklandGary Numan Teenage WildlifePlaceboSuedePJ HarveyNasDamon Albarn The Rolling StonesAgeism in popThe PierrotLindsay Kemp Mime TroupeLes Enfants Dus ParadisPeggy and Haywood JonesHR GigerMajor TomPVPI -Health & SafetyLive TV5-Star-Aswad -Children’s TV live phone-in controversies Monica Seles Noel Edmonds Late Late Breakfast Show (Michael Lush accident)Doctor Who water tank accident Celebrity The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin The Strange World of Gurney Slade The Young OnesJames JoyceQuatermassDiana DorsUltravox ‘Vienna’ videoLet’s DanceLive AidHoward JonesNick KershawQueen U2Talking Heads ‘Once in a Lifetime’ videoThe MuppetsFloria SigismondiWalter Sterne

Season 1 Mid Season Episode 1 - Bowie Bonds. You tube song link:  N/A. Topics referenced or discussed:   MarathonsBathI Don’t Speak GermanNot the Same Log You’re Not Alone (Show)Moonage Daydream (Film)V&A David Bowie Is…Orson Welles Shakespeare Egypt Therapy Bowie’s FinancesTony DeFriesKen PittNicholas PeggChris O’LearyOzzy and Sharon OsborneMainMainIggy & the StoogesRights to the Master TapesJohn Lennon and Mick Jagger/Rolling StonesBondsA View to a KillEarthling David Pullman (Wall Street)EMIBowieNetJames Brown55 million dollarsPrudential AmericaLost HighwayTin MachineChangesOneBowie Selling Song RightsSeven MobyMoodys NapsterJeremy Paxman InterviewMichael CainePaul Macartney Michael Jackson Prince on Mariah Carey’s deal Batman (1989)2000 GlastonburyBill Zysblatt Corrine ‘Coco’ Schwab Jools HollandPepsi Ad (Tina Turner)Evian Ad Sexual Harassment Allegation Modern LoveThe Buddha of SuburbiaSuedeHours…Heathen 

Season 1 Songs 9 & 10 Show notes.  You tube song link:    https://youtu.be/kSDm7jcsZlM?si=O6iS-KNZSlrDFbzC Topics referenced or discussed:  LP Vs. EPTarkovsky Music Formats B-sidesPlaylistsBBC Radio 2 - Tony BlackburnStation to Station - Heathen - BlackstarPortishead - Third DoppelgängersElvis Costello & The Attractions Elvis Presley The Buddha of Suburbia Dave Gahan - Gary Numan - Simon Le BonAlways Crashing in the Same CarSuicide ideation Blue Jean The Man Who Sold the World (Album)Class and Church / law and morality ConsumerismBowie the lyricist Day In Day OutTin MachineLou Reed - Dirty Blvd. / New York Toy (Album)Age and visibility Theme of isolation Damon Albarn Nineteen Eighty-Four (Charrington)Bottom (TV series) Bowie the singer Freddie Mercury, Annie Lennox Ryko DiscFrom the vaultsBowie BondsChristopher WalkenBobcat GoldthwaitMichael CaineMotorcycle EmptinessFree TownProphets Marc BolanJRR TolkienLady StardustMob justiceMime, Lindsay KempKate Bush ‘Moving’ TibetBrecht/WeillPaul NicholasMusical Theatre Nineteen Eighty-FourLazarusEddie IzzardBuckfastleigh Monks CabaretSilly Boy Blue / Karma Man / Seven Years in Tibet Suede ‘The Drowners’ Elaine Paige and Michael BallQueenRebel Rebel: We are the Dead: Golden Years: Staton to StationBeing for the Benefit of Mr Kite Jeff Wayne’s War of the WorldsPunk London Calling Meat LoafPost-Post Punk The Wicker Man Hey JudeThe Cygnet CommitteeDoubling Glastonbury Postmodernism UFOsBruce SpringsteenCameron CroweJarvis Cocker Sorted For E’s and WhizzMick Ronson ‘Whispering’ Bob Harris Old Grey Whistle Test Hammersmith Odeon GigPhilip Glass ‘Akhenaten’ Conversation PieceSpace Oddity (single) 1979 re-recording Toy Neil Young The HypeThe Prettiest Star Tony Visconti Gus Dudgeon

Trigger warning - Poor Mental HealthSeason 1 Songs 6 7 8 - Elvis … God Wants a Word Show notesYou tube song link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73oBD2xLC4khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k409Tpjj6Fshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKuCzaARmA8Topics referenced or discussed:LP Vs. EPTarkovsky Music Formats B-sidesPlaylistsBBC Radio 2 - Tony BlackburnStation to Station - Heathen - BlackstarPortishead - Third DoppelgängersElvis Costello & The Attractions Elvis Presley The Buddha of Suburbia Dave Gahan - Gary Numan - Simon Le BonAlways Crashing in the Same CarSuicide ideation Blue Jean The Man Who Sold the World (Album)Class and Church / law and morality ConsumerismBowie the lyricist Day In Day OutTin MachineLou Reed - Dirty Blvd. / New York Toy (Album)Age and visibility Theme of isolation Damon Albarn Nineteen Eighty-Four (Charrington)Bottom (TV series) Bowie the singer Freddie Mercury, Annie Lennox Ryko DiscFrom the vaults

Season 1 Song 5 - Answer the phone Neil: The Cygnet CommitteeTrigger warning - Poor Mental HealthSeason 1 Song 5 - Answer the phone Neil- Show notesYou tube song link:  https://youtu.be/ZZ2VMPPyyck?si=IQUGHBKP1N3NUBYlTopics referenced or discussed:EMIGlastonbury 2000Asian Dub Foundation Twitter (Pre-Musk)Stewart LeeNaughty jokesBlackstarKing Crimson (In The Court of the Crimson King) Inflation Calculator Mike GarsonCarlos Alomar Earl Slick Mick RonsonE-Street Band (Roy Bittan)Rick WakemanTraining Vs. Untrained (musicians/actors)Daniel Day-Lewis Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Station to Station Lynda La Plante and Mick JaggerGail Ann Dorsey Hippie culture Bowie’s politicsRock Against RacismEric Clapton Bob DylanBlank verseBowie the singerFive Years The Pretty Things are Going to HellAntifaBeckenham Arts Lab Winstanley The DiggersThe Levellers (not the band!) MC-5 ‘Kick Out the Jams’Free StateSomebody Up there Likes MeBig BrotherMosesSocialism and AnarchismGenerational tension 9/11 - War on Terror - Invasion of Iraq 1980sLet’s DanceAnthony Newlay Brian Eno - Roxy Music (and Social Democracy) Feminism in hippe culture

Season 1 Songs 3 & 4 - Odes to Hermione - Show notes**Trigger warnings for content (poor mental health)Link to the song version we listened to - https://youtu.be/Xw1mmqMD9j0?si=7iolOYVMQzf0OuL4https://youtu.be/UMU261WsLlc?si=uSwPt2vSysEfC8hBTopics referenced or discussed:Davey Jones & The Monkees, band & TV legendsTom Jones, singerJim Bowie - The Bowie Knife Song Of Norway, OperettaA Reality Tour, BowieWhere are We Now? The Next Day, BowieTony Oursler, artist Breaking up (‘…is so very hard to do.’)Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach ‘Painted From Memory’ (‘This House is Empty Now’)Beak-up albums (Bob Dylan ‘Blood on the Tracks’, Joni Mitchell ‘Blue’, Beck ‘Sea Change’, Carol King ‘Tapestry’, Lorde ‘Melodrama’) Angela Barnett (Bowie) ‘Be My Wife’ (Low)John Cage, artistStereo, audio techniqueNeil Young, artistGender stereotypes / sexism Hours (‘Thursday’s Child,’ ‘Something in the Air,’ ‘Survive’)Artifice Vs. Authenticity I’m Not Quite (Demo) David Bowie, The ActorStanislavsky - emotional memory Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Philip Jeffries) Labyrinth, filmMerry Christmas, Mr Lawrence Night and Fog in Japan, filmTom Conti, actorThe Hunger, film“Heroes”, BowieBlackout, BowieWord on a Wing, BowieSpace Oddity, BowieLove and romance Iman, wife Heroin phasePolyamory, multi-partner relationshipBisexuality, sexual orientation Gender fluidity, unfixed gender expression Veronica Lake and Lauren Bacall, actresses Susan Sarandon, Tina Turner, Melissa Hurley, Romy Haag, romantic partnersBerlin, capital city Mick Jagger, artist Melody Maker, music publication Norwegian Wood, songTin Machine, band Les Dawson, comedian When I Live My Dream, song Suede (Animal Nitrate, Metal Mickey, The Drowners), bandsHunky Dory (Fill My Heart, Kooks), albumsThe Man Who Sold the World (The Supermen), songTime Will Crawl, song Diamond Dogs, BowieGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German polymath 

** Trigger warning - loss of a parentSeason 1 Song 2 - A Death in the family- Show notesYou tube song link: (1:30] https://youtu.be/IXdZ57xhOik?si=rz2nnvyhFT7kPXXiTopics referenced or discussed:Davy Jones and the King Bees (Band)The Mannish Boys (Band)The Lower Third (Band)Arnold Corns (Band)Q/NME (New Music Express) (Music Magazines)The Beatles: Abbey Road/Revolver (Band: Albums)Simon & Garfunkel (Band)Jonie Mitchell (Singer Songwriter)Arlo & Woody Guthrie: Alice’s Restaurant Massacre (Singer Songwriters: Song)Bob Dylan (Singer Songwriter)Marc Bolan (Singer Songwriter)Feathers: Hermione Farthingale (Folk Trio: Person, Lover)Loss of a parent (Trigger warning)Haywood Jones (Person, Father)Credit cards, Barclaycard & the first ATM (Event) Reg Varney (Actor)Manson Murders > Kray Twins (Event > Organised Crime Gang)Mental Health & suicide (Trigger Warning)Terry Burns (Person, Maternal Half-Brother)U2: Zooropa, Brian Eno (Band: Album, Producer)Also mentioned: Dadaism, Cubists (Art Movements)

He spent his life obsessed with the music and art of David Bowie. Whereas, I spent the early years of our marriage trying to escape it. Spoiler alert: I failed.  Welcome to Be My (Bowie) Wife, the podcast where a lifelong fanatic and a converted skeptic take a marital tour through the sprawling universe of the Starman himself.And after years of repeat listening for him…and a growing curiosity from me, we are going to share our kitchen table debates.Every week, we are going to explore different aspects of the life and art of Bowie. But fair warning: we love a good tangent and never miss a rabbit hole.Subscribe right now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Join us for Be My (Bowie) Wife—our first official episodes drop very soon!So put on your red shoes... and we will upload on Tuesday … well we might just stretch it to Wednesday ...