{"id":32285,"date":"2018-01-08T11:48:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T11:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=32285"},"modified":"2018-01-15T10:52:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T10:52:55","slug":"happy-birthday-david-bowie-essentially-pop-celebrates-the-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/01\/happy-birthday-david-bowie-essentially-pop-celebrates-the-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday David Bowie &#8211; Essentially Pop Celebrates The Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17057\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/01\/david-bowie\/bowie-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bowie-1.jpg?fit=618%2C618&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"618,618\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"bowie 1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bowie-1.jpg?fit=618%2C618&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17057 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bowie-1.jpg?resize=618%2C618&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"618\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Two years ago we were celebrating David Bowie&#8217;s 69th birthday, for the most part blissfully unaware that he had only days to live. Bowie&#8217;s 25th album, the increasingly poignant &#8216;Blackstar&#8217;, was released that day, and declared a critical success &#8211; a return to his glory days &#8211; while a whispered hope ran through his fans &#8211; &#8220;tours? Could there be tours! Please let there be tours!&#8221;<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But it wasn&#8217;t to be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two days later the man was gone, having kept secret from the world the cancer which killed him. To say people were shocked would be an understatement. Devastation, utter bewilderment, a sense of hopelessness, would come closer to expressing what happened.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2076862002005673\" data-ad-slot=\"1550939374\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two years later, the world is a much changed place. Maybe he knew what was coming. Nonetheless, on what would have been Bowie&#8217;s 71st birthday, we remember fondly both the man and his music. We&#8217;re still sad, but we still have him with us, living in our hearts and minds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spotify has made a 71 track Bowie playlist in honour of his birthday &#8211; you can listen to it here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/user\/spotify\/playlist\/37i9dQZF1DWTTthpScXd3v\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even better, Parlophone Records have shared the previously unreleased demo of Bowie&#8217;s 1983 hit, &#8216;Let&#8217;s Dance&#8217;. Recorded in Switzerland with Nile Rodgers, it&#8217;s a stripped back and raw acoustic number, with Rodger&#8217;s signature guitar style evident, in the somewhat down-tempo rendition of the track. It&#8217;s similar but not quite the same as the final song: slightly jarring, a little off-beat, with Bowie&#8217;s &#8220;Sarf-Lundan&#8221; accent &#8211; always the Bromley Boy &#8211; strong through the vocals.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/1vH2ROsNTFkMW4DGywjPrV\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nile Rodgers recounted the recording in a statement yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI woke up on my first morning in Montreux with David peering over me,\u201d he said. \u201cHe had an acoustic guitar in his hands and exclaimed, \u2018Nile, darling, I think this is a HIT!\u2019\u201d He explained that the demo became a blueprint for the song as well as the entire <em>Let\u2019s Dance<\/em> album. \u201cThe time we spent mixing it just before Christmas was full of tears as it felt like David was in the room with us. Happy Birthday David, I love you and we all miss you!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How are you commemorating Bowie&#8217;s Birthday? Do you have anything special planned for this week? We&#8217;re listening to his music all day here at EP Towers, and we&#8217;ve got a few more Bowie articles coming up this week. If you&#8217;re doing anything, or if you&#8217;ve got some special memories, let us know. We&#8217;d love to hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago we were celebrating David Bowie&#8217;s 69th birthday, for the most part blissfully unaware that he had only days to live. Bowie&#8217;s 25th album, the increasingly poignant &#8216;Blackstar&#8217;, was released that day, and declared a critical success &#8211; a return to his glory days &#8211; while a whispered hope ran through his fans &#8211; &#8220;tours? Could there be tours! 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