Moonage Daydream - David Bowie

[Kes]

Just watched this movie, brilliant film with an absolutely epic surround mix. A very well made film.

If you haven't seen it, and are remotely interested in Bowie, just do it

[MusicalProstitute]

I have been meaning to watch this for a while. The trailer had me hooked from the off. I am not the biggest Bowie fan and even thought of him as a bit of a pretender, but there is no denying the impact the man had on musical history and the fact that he is a bona fide legend. The word 'iconic' is ubiquitous these days and its meaning has been vastly diluted, but David really is deserving of the term. I shall definitely be watching this documentary at some point.

[Kes]

And not a mention of Under Pressure throughout it. Not that I saw anyway.

[MusicalProstitute]

Oh, that's a shame. I know David virtually ignored the song until after playing it at Fred's tribute gig and then introduced it at his own gigs. I always got the impression that he was not as proud of the song as he was others in his catalogue - almost as if there was some music snobbery there...but maybe I misread him.

I do know that I can find hardly any interviews in which David speaks about Freddie or Queen, apart from the clip on one of the official Queen documentaries.

[Kes]

Being fair, this was something Brett Morgen put together, not Bowie himself, but nevertheless, it's in the upper echelons of music biopics, with the picture quality and sound production better than a lot of what I've seen. The slap bass on Ashes To Ashes comes right at you out of the centre channel.

I'd put both of those things above Days Of Our Lives.

[MusicalProstitute]

Yeah, I was aware that Brett had made the film - and it was obviously done with a lot of respect and love from the clips I have already seen. And one gets the distinct feeling that the artsy, other-worldly style of the film would have been right up David's street.

I would love a Queen documentary in this style, but they just do not have enough footage to make something of that quality.

Thinking about Bowie now, even though I was never a big fan news of his death really upset me - it was like losing that part of your childhood I guess; similar to how some people felt about Fred when he died even if they were not Queen fans. Some artists just light up the world and affect people deeply when they leave this life. And I still cannot bring myself to watch Lazarus all the way through.

[Kes]

I went see one of the plays of that, in a "tent" in London, when the run was on, with Michael C. Hall of Dexter fame. It was much better than I expected.

Weird, because the lead was on the stage feigning being asleep, as everyone entered the venue.

I didn't know when I went see it, that it was on such a short run, both in New York and London. Literally only on for a couple of weeks.

[MusicalProstitute]

Michael C Hall is a wonderful actor.

I remember seeing the photos of David when he visited the show - opening night somewhere? The man had always been skinny, but he just didn't look right.

I've managed to watch the first minute of the promo but found it too depressing to watch it all the way through. I think the song itself though is one of his most original and darkest tracks - there is such an atmosphere to it that I find it quite over-bearing in some ways. But, give Bowie his due, he made one hell of an exit.