David Bowie VH1 Storytellers
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VH1's sadly short-lived series Storytellers was ideal for an old charmer like David Bowie, giving him an intimate platform to spin stories both old and new. When he appeared on the show on August 23, 1999, he was a few months away from releasing Hours..., an album where he comfortably came to terms with his past, so it fits that he's looking back fondly here, telling stories about the Mannish Boys and Iggy Pop, sliding the new tunes "Thursday's Child" and "Seven" in between "Life on Mars?" and "Drive-In Saturday," plus "Can't Help Thinking About Me," a single he released with the Lower Third in 1965. These are all good, relaxed, unplugged readings, but the chief attraction of VH1 Storytellers is, appropriately enough, those stories Bowie tells, as they not only offer a glimpse into the creation of these songs, they do what great stories should do: they entertain. [VH1 Storytellers is available as a CD/DVD package, with the CD containing a mere eight songs and the DVD containing a full program of 12 tunes, adding "Always Crashing in the Same Car" and Tin Machine's "I Can't Read" into the mix.]
5 comments:
This is great... the arrangements are classy but the dialogue in-between is to die for! While I had several Bowie albums I was never a full-on fan, but I still really miss him already, the world is a poorer place without someone that talented and charismatic in it.
Its me once again, any chance of a mega link for this gem ? please please - I already owe you so many beers
Hello Katwwasel Here's Mega Link https://mega.nz/#!O4lhRDCA!hg5_7O2LJybft0vc6M_DlR45BzR1lpbzYBj2TG2Nvys
Thanks again - the beer total goes up
Thanks for the reup!
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