I first became really inspired and became hooked on David Bowies music when I was driving through Sydney one night in July 1995.  That was the night when I heard Changes on the radio.  Woe when I heard that song on my car radio I really liked it.  Sure I had heard that song before, but for real that song damn well impressed me that night. 

Not long after that night in Sydney I bought the CD’s: Best of David Bowie one and two.  I can tell you I have listened to those CD’s over and over again many times!  Then later on I bought the CD’s: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), Aladdin Sane (1973), Pin Ups (1973), Diamond Dogs (1974), Low (77), Hours (1999), Heathen (2002) etc.

Cover photo of Diamond Dogs 

 I also have the David Bowie records which my mum bought me for Christmas 1996: David Live (1974) and Let’s Dance (1983).  Here is a photo from the David Bowie Live era. (1974).

Also in 1995 I bought the David Bowie video called: David Bowie: The Video Collection.  Now that is a video, which I have probably watched over a thousand times.  This video contains all of David Bowies video hits starting with Space Oddity (1972) to the re-make song of Fame, which was made into a video in 1990.

I really love David Bowie videos as they are just so way out there and different from your average music video.  I love the weirdness of his videos.  I can’t get enough of them.  The videos I especially like are  Space Oddity.  In this video the lighting is in different read and green colours and then the camera goes around showing the studio, where the video was filmed.  The video also pans around the studio and shows the switchboard controls.  It also shows David Bowie playing the guitar whilst sitting down.  The way they made the video is just so impressive. 

Photo taken from Space Oddity video!

YouTube video of Space Oddity

Another video of David Bowies which I really like is Boys Keep Swinging (1979).  In this video David Bowie is dressed up as x 3 different women doing backup vocals on a brightly lit up stage.  David Bowie is also the lead male singer dressed up in a suit and then near the end of the video David Bowie dressed up as one of the back up singers walks down the catwalk which is situated in the middle of the stage and then takes off his wig and smears his makeup up on his cheak.  The second dressed up lady, which is David Bowie in disguise does the same thing as what the first did.  Then at the very end of the video David Bowie dressed up as an old lady character walks down the stage catwalk with her walking cane and waves. That video is so originally and cleverly made.  Very impressive!

Video of Boys Keep Swinging

Next video I like is Look Back in Anger (1979).  This video has David Bowie painting an angel in a small apartment.  Then later on he looks in the mirror and his face increasingly gets more and more blotches on it. Then David Bowie ends up painting the mirror then his face.  At the end of the video David Bowie hides under his bed. Love that video!  Just love the weirdness of it, which I can’t get enough of.

Youtube video of Look Back in Anger 

Last video I really like is Day in Day out (1987).  This one shows a couple stealing books from a outside store in New York. Then another part shows the lady prostituting herself on the streets and then the police arrest her.  Another part of the video the lady, her partner and their child are eating on the outside table of a diner and listening to a radio.  Last part of video their house gets bulldozed and the police raid their house.

Youtube video of "Day in Day Out"

On my birthday four years ago I received from my Auntie and Uncle a double DVD set of David Bowies music videos.    These videos in the DVD are his video hits from 1972 – 2002.  This DVD is really good as it includes extra video footage which I don’t have in my Video, David Bowie: The video Collection.  The videos include 1970’s live on stage, concert footage ie Young Americans, Ziggy Stardust.  Also there is videos from his Outside and Earthling CD’s.

Photo of David Bowie and Mick Ronson on Top of The

Pops in 1972.  Song being sung was Starman.

Video of song Starman from Top of The Pops in 1972 

Also in 1995 and in later years I have managed to buy, watch or been given several in concert movies, and documentaries featuring David Bowie.  The David Bowie movies are: Just a Giggolo, Ricochet (doc, music 1984), The Man Who fell to Earth (movie, 1975), Ziggy Strardust and the Spiders from Mars: The Motion Picture (1973).

Video cover of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

David Bowie videos which I enjoy the most is Richochet.  This documentary, music video is set in Bangkok, Singapore  and Hong Kong, which is in South-East Asia.  The video includes his travel experiences, DB in concert footage and a small story surrounding different Asians.

Another favourite DB movie video of mine is: The Man Who Fell to Earth (1975).  It was David’s first major motion picture role. He stars as a visitor from space.  His name in the movie is Thomas Jerome Newton and is an alien from a planet that is dying from a lack of water.

Photo of one of the main characters in the movie whose

name is Mary Lou.

You tube video snippet from The Man Who Fell to Earth

I went and saw David Bowie Live in concert in Sydney in 2004 with my sister. In order to see this concert my sisters boyfriend drove my sister and I to Sydney.

That concert was the best.  He sung alot of his newer music and I was thoroughly entertained with both his band, his singing and the stage set up.  Here is one of the songs which I really got into at the concert.  The name of the song is Slip Away.

Oh well, I think I have added alot of information for all you to read and I will end now.  Bye for now.  Frances.