This Vintage Gold moment comes from Kender MacGowan. Growing up my first exposure to music outside of the rock hits of the day on the car radio, and Mom playing Patsy Cline while she cleaned, was my...
Let’s make this brief and to the point: David Bowie created reinvention in popular culture. No one artist fluidly switched appearances, characters, song styles or musical genre with more aplomb. He...
My Bowie was “Soul Train Bowie”. Don't act surprised that my first introduction to David Bowie was via Soul Train. Undoubtedly the best American music variety television program ever conceived....
Unlike many others, I was not a big David Bowie fan, nor was I NOT a big David Bowie fan. I was aware of him in the 1970's but paid little attention. It wasn't until the advent of MTV in the early...
My Bowie was 80s Bowie. Let’s Dance Bowie. The Bowie who shed the stardust and spacesuit for a suit and tie. He was the Dashing Bowie, not the ungendered spaceman that I got to know later. I was...
The Man Who Sold The World is one of those overlooked records in that stretch for Bowie where Aladdin Sane, Ziggy Stardust, Diamond Dogs, Space Oddity and Hunky Dory sucked up all the oxygen in the...
I have never not been aware of David Bowie. I mean I cannot remember a time when I had to learn who he was or what he did. I do remember my Mum singing "Space Oddity" to me, emphasizing the lower...
My first albums as a kid were Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, KISS and K-Tel but it was this Queen track that really elicits memories. Just moved from Scotland to Virgina in 1974 and Glam was in full...
How The Sons Of The Black Country Changed The World England’s Black Country, a region that is central to the West Midlands and the city of Birmingham, called so due to the amount of soot and ash...
Phantom Sway's inimitable Kellie Jane Adan live tweeted Adam Sandler's Hanukkah party last night. Apparently Michael Chiklis (The Commish, The Shield, American Horror Story, Gotham) stole the show. A...