"Ashes to Ashes (David Bowie song) ""Ashes to Ashes"" is a song written and recorded by David Bowie. It was the lead single from the 1980 album ""Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)"" and became Bowie's second UK No. 1 single. It is also known for its innovative video, directed by Bowie and David Mallet, which at the time was the most expensive music video ever made. The lyrics revisit Bowie's Major Tom character from 1969's ""Space Oddity"" in a darker theme, which he referenced once again in 1995 with ""Hallo Spaceboy"". The song's original title was ""People Are Turning to"
"the dominant visual representation of his ""Scary Monsters"" phase. Also appearing were Steve Strange and other members of the London Blitz scene, including Judith Frankland who had designed clothes for Strange's Visage videos and Darla Jane Gilroy, forerunners of (later participants in) the New Romantic movement that was heavily influenced by Bowie's music and image. The complexity and high production cost of ""Ashes to Ashes"" makes it one of the most significant in the evolution of the music video. Bowie described the shot of himself and the Blitz Kids marching towards the camera in front of a bulldozer as symbolising"
"the New York streets and subways. The video includes video sculptures by the artist, Tony Oursler. Bowie has said of Sigismondi's work, ""I thought she just has a wonderful eye, great textures, fabulous cutting."" The video is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Little Wonder (song) ""Little Wonder"" is a song and single by David Bowie, from the 1997 album ""Earthling"". It was the album's biggest hit, reaching number 14 in the UK. At the 1998 Brit Awards, the song was nominated for Best British Video. Bowie uses the names of all seven dwarfs"
"Bounce with Me ""Bounce with Me"" is a single by American rapper Lil' Bow Wow featuring Xscape. It is Lil' Bow Wow's debut single, taken from his debut album ""Beware of Dog"". The single samples ""Love Serenade (Part II)"" by Barry White. It spent nine weeks at number 1 on the U.S. Rap Chart and number 20 on ""Billboard"" Hot 100. The song was featured in the film ""Big Momma's House"" and the trailer of ""Hardball"". A radio remix and extended version featuring R.O.C. and Lil' Mo was also released. The video, directed by Dave Meyers (director), features appearances by"
"verse, leading listeners to only hear ""woof mother...the Dogg came to play"". The video was shot of Los Angeles directed by Dave Meyers. It was voted for the #1 video on BET's 106 & Park. It was the first music video on 106 & Park to be retired. Bow Wow features in the video along with his alleged ""Godfather"" Snoop Dogg, Fred Durst, Chanté Moore, Moby, and his 'mentor' Jermaine Dupri. Bow Wow (That's My Name) ""Bow Wow (That's My Name)"" is the second single from Lil' Bow Wow's debut album ""Beware of Dog"". It features fellow rapper Snoop Dogg."
"their respective mothers. The original intent was to have the group sing the song to their mothers in the video, however, Duane Allen's mother was ill at the time, so Boothby decided to incorporate their hometowns, thus avoiding any lengthy or strenuous travel. The video continues to be played each year as part of Mother's Day specials on various video networks. In 2011, the group rerecorded the song with a new arrangement and lead singer Duane Allen on lead vocals for their ""It's Only Natural"" project at Cracker Barrel Old Country Store. The album included songs originally sung by Steve"
"""oncoming violence"". Although it appears that Steve Strange is taking a bow as he walks behind Bowie, he was actually trying to pull his gown away from the bulldozer in an effort to avoid it getting caught. Scenes of the singer in a space suit—which suggested a hospital life-support system—and others showing him locked in what appeared to be a padded room, made reference to both Major Tom and to Bowie's new, rueful interpretation of him. Contrary to popular belief, the elderly woman lecturing Bowie at the end of the clip was not his real mother. ""Record Mirror"" readers voted"
"labeling it as ""Best New Track"". Dombal also described the track as ""wonderfully odd and expansive"" and noted that it is ""closer to the cocaine-fueled fantasias of 1976's ""Station to Station"" than almost anything he's [Bowie] done since"". Pitchfork Media named ""★"" the 11th best music video of 2015. Simon Critchley commented on Bowie's connection to Elvis Presley, referring to the lyrics of Presley's song ""Black Star"" as a clue. In the annual ""Village Voice""s Pazz & Jop mass critics poll of the year's best in music in 2016, ""★"" was tied at number 9, with Rihanna's ""Work"". Personnel adapted"
"age you get to when you're not really going to be shown [on TV] anymore. The young have to kill the old. ... That's how life works. ... It's how culture works."" For this reason there were no music videos released for any of the songs from this album. However, a music video for ""Slow Burn"" was uploaded to the official DavidBowieVEVO YouTube channel on 23 March 2011. The video shows Bowie dressed in white performing the vocals to the song in a recording studio booth, with a young girl wandering around the darkened control room and occasionally touching the"
"Renck (who also directed the music video for Bowie's previous single, ""★"") in November 2015; during the week of shooting, doctors reportedly informed Bowie the cancer was terminal and that they were ending treatment. The filming location was a studio in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The video is shown in a 1:1 aspect ratio and prominently features Bowie, appearing with a bandage and buttons sewn over his eyes, lying on a deathbed. A director's cut exists restoring the original widescreen aspect. The video finishes with Bowie retreating into a dark wardrobe. In the scenes featuring the wardrobe,"
"Jermaine Dupri, Jagged Edge and Da Brat. Brief clips from ""Big Momma's House"" are also included. Bounce with Me ""Bounce with Me"" is a single by American rapper Lil' Bow Wow featuring Xscape. It is Lil' Bow Wow's debut single, taken from his debut album ""Beware of Dog"". The single samples ""Love Serenade (Part II)"" by Barry White. It spent nine weeks at number 1 on the U.S. Rap Chart and number 20 on ""Billboard"" Hot 100. The song was featured in the film ""Big Momma's House"" and the trailer of ""Hardball"". A radio remix and extended version featuring R.O.C."
"video is heavily influenced by Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 film ""Alphaville"", Stanley Kubrick's ""A Clockwork Orange"" (1971), as well as Chris Marker's film ""La Jetée"" and Orson Welles' ""The Trial"" - both from 1962. The uniformed women shown monitoring Bowie through high powered telescopes are an homage to the stewardesses in the Pan-Am space plane in Kubrick's """" (1968). The video was praised by ""Entertainment Weekly"" after Bowie died in 2016, saying ""Bowie is an excellent actor, and this video may be his best character performance in a music video."" The song, while not Bowie’s first release since Tin Machine, was"
"song undid the power of the lyric, saying he preferred the demo version, and in a separate interview lamented ""You should hear 'Loving the Alien' on demo. It's wonderful on demo. I promise you! (laughs). But on the album, it's ... not as wonderful."" A music video was co-directed by Bowie with David Mallet. The original video included a short shot of Bowie with a nosebleed; this original version was only released on the 1987 video single ""Day-In Day-Out"". All subsequent releases of the video have the nosebleed scene edited out. An edited version of the song was released as"
"by James E. Perone, who writes that the song may simply represent some characteristics of Bowie's own personality or, in another case, an alien observing aspects of the life on Earth. The drum break is sampled from The Winstons instrumental, ""Amen, Brother"", a popular drum solo and sample commonly referred to as the ""Amen break"". An additional three promo CD singles were also released. The music video for ""Little Wonder"" was directed by Floria Sigismondi an Italian-Canadian photographer and director. It is set in a dystopian world of mutants, depicting rapid-pace shots of Bowie as an aging Ziggy character wandering"
"she finds herself disappointed with reality... that although she's living in the doldrums of reality, she's being told that there's a far greater life somewhere, and she's bitterly disappointed that she doesn't have access to it."" Mick Rock filmed and directed a promotional video backstage at Earl's Court, on 12 May 1973, to accompany the release of the song as a single. It features a heavily made-up Bowie performing the song solo against a white backdrop, in a turquoise ""ice-blue"" suit designed by Freddi Buretti. It was Bowie's fourth music video. When released as a single in 1973, it reached"
"addition to vocals. Modern Love (song) ""Modern Love"" is a song written and recorded by David Bowie. It is the opening track to his album ""Let's Dance"", and was issued as the third single from the album in late 1983. By the time ""Modern Love"" was issued and edited as a single, Bowie's Serious Moonlight Tour was underway. The video for the song used footage of Bowie and his band performing the song from concert in Philadelphia on 20 July 1983. A live version, recorded in Montreal on 13 July 1983, was on the B-side. The single reached No. 2"
"that Bowie has used in his career and features a long fantasy sequence that takes place in outer space. The song mimics the style of ""Space Oddity"", ""John, I'm Only Dancing"", ""Let's Dance"" and ""Sound and Vision"" and also briefly references ""Changes"" and ""Life on Mars?"" in the lyrics. The accompanying music video includes imagery from many aspects of David Bowie's career, including elements of the original video for ""Space Oddity"" from his 1969 promotional film ""Love You till Tuesday"" and Bowie's costume from his 1974 appearance on AVRO's ""TopPop"" performing ""Rebel Rebel"", as well as references to his interests"
"gorgeous topline."" Even though the song's melody bears no similarity to David Bowie's 1977 single """"Heroes"""", his and Brian Eno's names were added to the song's writing credits in July 2015. Alesso told the ""Daily Star"": ""I just didn't want to get sued. They aren't similar, but we needed protection in case we pissed off Bowie."" The music video was released on 10 October 2014. It introduces teenagers with supernatural abilities, who are detained in a high security prison. An angel is being kept under strict supervision as scientists compel her to swallow drugs designed to remove her powers. Meanwhile,"
"last great composition of the 1980s"". ""Mojo"" chose it as number 61 in the countdown of Bowie's 100 greatest songs. All tracks by David Bowie unless indicated. Julien Temple shot the music video, which echoed the 1950s style of the movie. The video was a homage to an old British advert for Strand cigarettes. The ill-fated advertising tagline ""You're never alone with a Strand"" is quoted by Partners in the film. The video also uses footage from the film. In 2016, ""Entertainment Weekly"" chose it as one of Bowie's 20 best music videos. They stated the video ""does a far"
"Bowie"", and the 30th Anniversary edition of ""Aladdin Sane"". A stereo version, which is around a minute shorter than the mono version, circulated unofficially among collectors and finally saw official release in November 2014 on Bowie's ""Nothing Has Changed"" compilation set. There also exists a version consisting of the backing track for Mott the Hoople's version with Bowie's guide vocal. A variant of this version, combining Bowie's vocal on the verses with Ian Hunter's on the chorus, was released on the 2006 reissue of ""All the Young Dudes"". Bowie also used the music in reverse as the basis for ""Move"
"""The Best of David Bowie 1980–1987"" (2007), while the 2008 remixed version appeared on ""iSelect"" (2008) and ""Nothing Has Changed"" (2014). An updated version of the 2008 ""MM Remix"", as well as remixes of the original single and its b-side ""Girls"" appear in the box set ""Loving the Alien (1983-1988)"". An accompanying music video was directed by Tim Pope, making his first and only appearance as a director of a Bowie video, though Pope later directed Bowie's 50th birthday celebration video in 1997. The clip was directed during rehearsals for Bowie’s Glass Spider Tour, and previewed some of the elaborate"
"I started working this way on the 'Ashes to Ashes' video with David Mallet. It was my first real big attempt and it won awards at the time for being a new way of doing videos."" Julien Temple and Bowie co-directed the video, which made the song's message explicit, showing a young couple's struggle against an uncaring society. Tony Selznik taught Bowie to roller skate for the video, recalling in 2013, ""David came across as very humble and in between careers, almost. He was disillusioned with the music industry. I taught him to skate in a parking lot. We shot"
"one daughter, Alexandria Zahra Jones, born 15 August 2000. Iman is also a stepmother to Bowie's son from a previous marriage, Duncan Jones. Both children bear Bowie's legal surname. Iman and her family resided primarily in Manhattan and London. When Bowie died on 10 January 2016, making her a widow, she wrote in tribute to him that ""the struggle is real, but so is God."" Iman (model) Zara Mohamed Abdulmajid (, ; born 25 July 1955), mononymously known as Iman (""faith"" in Arabic), is a Somali fashion model, actress and entrepreneur. A pioneer in the ethnic-cosmetics market, she is also"
"which he might start work on later in 2013. The announcement was accompanied by the immediate release of a single, ""Where Are We Now?"", written and recorded by Bowie in New York and produced by longtime collaborator Visconti. A music video for ""Where Are We Now?"" was released onto Vimeo the same day, directed by New York artist Tony Oursler. The single topped the UK iTunes Chart within hours of its release, and debuted in the UK Singles Chart at No. 6, his first single to enter the Top 10 for two decades (since ""Jump They Say"" in 1993). A"
"Home & Away, Heartbreak High, GP, and the television commercials include Wonderland Sydney with Johnny Young and Pat Cash. At age 14, Bowie was a drama student at the prestigious Newtown High School of The Performing Arts. At the school, she took on her first role as Assistant Director. She has also been a singer / model. She starred in the Tropfest film ""The Unsound."" In 2005, Bowie sang vocals for the single 'Where Did You Come From"" which achieved airplay on FBi Radio and several films. The song was produced by Michael Pearson Adams of Shakaya fame. She also"
"from a decade-long recording hiatus with ""The Next Day."" He remained musically active until he died of liver cancer two days after the release of his final album, ""Blackstar"" (2016). Bowie was born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947 in Brixton, London. His mother, Margaret Mary ""Peggy"" (née Burns; 1913–2001), was born at Shorncliffe Army Camp near Cheriton, Kent. Her paternal grandparents were Irish immigrants who had settled in Manchester. She worked as a waitress at a cinema in Royal Tunbridge Wells. His father, Haywood Stenton ""John"" Jones (1912–1969), was from Doncaster, and worked as a promotions officer for"
"dance routines that would be used during performances of ""Loving the Alien"" (1985), ""Fashion"" (1980) and ""Sons of the Silent Age"" (1977). The dancers from the tour (Melissa Hurley, Constance Marie, Craig Allen Rothwell, Viktor Manoel, and Stephen Nichols) all featured in the video alongside tour guitarists Peter Frampton and Carlos Alomar. Toni Basil, Bowie's long-time friend, was responsible for the choreography. The video was later released on ""Bowie – The Video Collection"" (1993), ""Best of Bowie"" (2002) and ""The Best of David Bowie 1980–1987"" (2007); the limited edition 12"" single featured a still from the video on its cover."
"Wife"" apparently was Bowie's first official video since ""Life on Mars?"". The video is in fact rather similar: Bowie stands alone against a white backdrop singing the song alone. However, Stanley Dorfman's new clip featured a Bowie in make-up and clothing influenced by Buster Keaton and giving an irreverent, detached performance on a guitar, which does gel with the candid feeling generated by the song. Be My Wife ""Be My Wife"" is a song by English musician David Bowie. It was the second single from ""Low"" (1977), released on 17 June 1977. Its presence in ""Low"" tones down the electronic"
"Sound and Vision ""Sound and Vision"" is a song and single by David Bowie which appeared on his 1977 album ""Low"". The song is notable for juxtaposing an uplifting guitar and synthesizer-led instrumental track with Bowie’s withdrawn lyrics. In keeping with the minimalist approach of ""Low"", Bowie and co-producer Tony Visconti originally recorded the track as an instrumental, bar the backing vocal (performed by Visconti’s wife, Mary Hopkin). Bowie then recorded his vocal after the rest of the band had left the studio, before trimming verses off the lyrics and leaving a relatively lengthy instrumental intro on the finished song."
"your songs!""). Kinder self-references are also present, such as the song ""Warszawa"" being played backstage to soothe Mr. Screaming while he's applying his makeup. The film was released on home video on VHS and Betamax formats by Sony Home Video in North America, EMI/Picture Music International in the UK, and on Laserdisc by Pioneer Artists in Japan (12"" and 8"", with analog stereo sound) and North America (12"", digital and analog sound) The video later appears as an easter egg hidden on the ""Best of Bowie"" DVDs. It is slightly modified: in the club where the girl is watching a"
"chart and No. 74 in Australia. A music video for this piece was produced by Mark Romanek, featuring a montage of African-American youth playing in urban Los Angeles, while intercut with scenes of Bowie in a blue suit with his saxophone and Al B. Sure! singing. The music video attempted to capture Bowie's image behind the song: multiple ethnic groups coexisting with their own identities, and not attempting to absorb one another. Tracks #1-3 re-produced, re-arranged and mixed by Marc 'Funkyman' Paley, Raul 'DJ EFX' Recinos & Jeremy 'DJ Digit' Cowan <br>Track # 2 remix and additional production by John"
"head is grafted onto the body of a male model photographed separately. A music video for ""Slow Burn"" was uploaded to the official DavidBowieVEVO YouTube channel on 23 March 2011. The video shows Bowie dressed in white performing the vocals to the song in a recording studio booth, with a young girl wandering around the darkened control room and occasionally touching the equipment and mixing desk. The video is an edited version of the song and no directing or other credits are given. The song was performed live on several TV shows in 2002, although was only performed during the"
"on the bonus disc of the re-released ""Outside"" album. <https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles/b76e164f-7a2c-4458-81ac-47724387a4e2> The music video for ""Hallo Spaceboy"" was directed by David Mallet, mixing shots of both Bowie and the Pet Shop Boys into a rapid-fire montage of Cold War era retro-footage of science fiction film clips, atomic bomb testing footage, and television advertising clips. Hallo Spaceboy ""Hallo Spaceboy"" is a song by David Bowie from his 1995 album ""Outside"". The track was re-recorded the following year, and issued as a remix featuring Pet Shop Boys as guest artists. Bowie and Brian Eno co-wrote the original album version of the song. Bowie"