∞ Days of Bowie - 632: Tonight

9-24-84: Bowie drops the follow-up to Let’s Dance. The album sold well but was not critically well received. This album’s issues likely stem from its rush into existence without Bowie having written enough songs for an album.

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∞ Days of Bowie - 631: Heroes

9-23-77: The single version of Heroes was released. With a runtime almost half the length of the album version. Despite being one of Bowie’s most well-known songs it was not actually a hit record, 24 UK / 176 US!

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∞ Days of Bowie - 630: Live in Berlin

9-22-02: While playing in Berlin during the third encore Bowie and the Band decided to play almost the entire album Low.

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∞ Days of Bowie - 629: 1st US Rehearsal

9-21-71: The Spiders had a 7 hour rehearsal at the Music Hall in Cleveland. Their 1st US rehearsal & 1st to feature Mark Garson on piano. Garson was shocked to find he had a baby grand piano to play & had a monitor system.

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∞ Days of Bowie - 628: John Lennon

9-20-74: A birthday party for Dean Martin’s son Ricci’s is where Bowie & Lennon first meet. Introduced to each other by Elizabeth Taylor. Bowie says he started with: “I’ve got everything you’ve made – except the Beatles.”

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∞ Days of Bowie - 628: Niles Rodgers

9-19 is the Birthday of producer/guitarist Niles Rodgers. Rodgers produced two albums for Bowie, Let’s Dance & Black Tie White Noise. Both albums going #1 in the UK.

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∞ Days of Bowie - 627: Macklemore

Macklemore performed the song “And We Danced” under his alter-ego Raven Bowie. So, on top of all the other reasons to like and praise Macklemore right now, knowing he is a Bowie fan is just icing on the cake.

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∞ Days of Bowie - 625: Marine Theatre

9-17-66: David Bowie buzzed this Lyme Regis theatre with his band The Buzz. Despite the venue still being in operation today, Bowie only played there once.

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∞ Days of Bowie - 624: Marc Bolan

9-16-77: Marc Bolan dies in an auto crash, Bowie had been on his TV show just days prior and would end up being his final guest. The pair were sometimes rivals but had become quite friendly prior to the accident.

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∞ Days of Bowie - 623: Reality

9-15-03: Bowie’s 25th solo studio album is dropped. It’s business as usual, a tour to support it is in the works and Bowie is already looking ahead to his next album. No one realizes his health will soon cause a ten-year hiatus.

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∞ Days of Bowie - 622: The Image

9-14-67: Bowie’s last day of filming for the silent short film The Image. The film’s summary: “A study of the illusionary reality world within the schizophrenic mind of the artist at his point of creativity"

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∞ Days of Bowie - 621: liveandwell.com

9-13-2000: This limited-edition live album was released exclusively to Bowie.Net Subscribers. Upon receiving the album mixed by Bowie, Reeves Gabrels, & Mark Plati Virgin records decided against release.

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∞ Days of Bowie - 620: Marriage

9-12-47: John Jones & Peggy Burns were married, 8 months after David Jones was burn. John had divorced his wife in August due to the adultery that had led to David’s conception. They were married at the Brixton Register Office.

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∞ Days of Bowie - 619: Pye Studios

9-11-69: Bowie is in London recording the song God Knows I’m Good at Pye Studios. The studio’s equipment was having issues and the entire recording session was scrapped.

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∞ Days of Bowie - 618: Andy Warhol

9-10-71: Bowie would meet with Andy Warhol at The Factory to have Warhol listen to Bowie’s tribute song to him. Warhol hated the song but thought that Bowei’s yellow Mary-Jane style shoes were worth talking about.

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∞ Days of Bowie - 617: RAF Wethersfield

9-9-64: Bowie & the Mannish Boys perform at the leisure center at this RAF airfield that was actually under US Air Force control.

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∞ Days of Bowie - 616: Flying to New York

9-8-71: Bowie, Angie & Mick Ronson flew to New York as Bowie was going to sign with RCA records. They stayed at the Warwick Hotel where Bowie penned a list of some of the songs for Honky Dory for release by RCA.

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∞ Days of Bowie - 615: The Rolling Stones

9/7/73: Bowie caught the Rolling Stones show at London’s Empire Pool. He hung out backstage & went to their 9/13 show in Newcastle too. Bowie saw the Stones for the 1st time in ’63, opening for Little Richard.

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∞ Days of Bowie - 614: Tin Machine, In Concert
Tin Machine’s show filmed a concert at the Rock-It Cargo Faculty near LAX form ABC’s In Concert series. It aired on 9/6/91

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∞ Days of Bowie - 613: Herbie Flowers

Famed based Herbie Flowers passed on 9-5-24. Known for his bass work on the song Rock On, he also performed with Bowie a few times and awas a member of glam rock band T. Rex.

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