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David Bowie – five more cheap shots
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DAVID BOWIE ? Five More Cheap Shots
1: Do you remember, your President Nixon? Come on, its 1974 Dave, you would have to have a pretty poor memory to have forgotten about Nixon. You can understand people forgetting about Dre, he?s just a producer afte[…]

DAVID BOWIE And The Smartest Girl He Ever Went Out With
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DAVID BOWIE And The Smartest Girl He Ever Went Out With
And when I get excited, my little China Girl says:
Oh baby, just you shut your mouth
I’m with the young lady from Shanghai here. But don’t just restrict it to when you’re excit[…]

DAVID BOWIE – Errata
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I’m sorry, I have to admit a mistake.
The title of David Bowie’s 1995 opus was not 1. Outside. No no no. It was 1. Outside: The Nathan Adler Diaries. A Hyper Cycle.
Let’s repeat that. Just in case you missed it.
1. Outside: The Nath[…]

DAVID BOWIE : Two Armed One Armed Bandit
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When Davy Jones was in his Brixton school playground and his best mate (mark that – his best mate) whupped him a good-un upside the head, his eyes span round like fruit machine wheels, finally settling on the blue and brown we know and love. If[…]

DAVID BOWIE – Five Easy Pisstakes
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DAVID BOWIE – Five Easy Pisstakes
1. ‘Kooks’, his touching tribute to his infant son. “Will you stay in our lover’s story?” “No, Papa, I will not, for you have given me the stupidest name on Earth, you bastar[…]

DAVID BOWIE asks ‘Is There Life On Mars?’
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DAVID BOWIE asks ‘Is There Life On Mars?’
Tanya answers: No. Most scientific studies have shown that Mars is wholly inhospitable to life having bitterly cold nights, and a wafer thin atmosphere, not to mention a paucity of water. Whilst t[…]

DAVID BOWIE: Low – Blank
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Possibly a 1977 version of Blankety Blank had this question set as its Supermatch Game. Low- Blank. It would be a bit unfair though because if you are referring to the Bowie album of said name, so many words could have filled the blank. Low Quality f[…]

DAVID BOWIE – Mr Mime Strikes Back
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DAVID BOWIE – Mr Mime Strikes Back
This may seem a funny thing for me to say, but there’s too much hate in the world. Prejudice, for example, disgusts me. Racial prejudice, prejudice against women, against the disabled, against mimes&#823[…]

DAVID BOWIE – Waste Of Space Oddity
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A concept single whose concept pretty much traded on being the aural equivalent of one of the longest, most tedious films ever set to celluloid. Space Oddity – Space Odyssey – do you get it? Granted the song is shorter than the film, but […]

IHM LYRIC WATCH 2: Jeru The Damaja
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IHM LYRIC WATCH 2
“I put MCs on the ceiling like Michelangelo did the Sixteenth Chapel” – Jeru The Damaja, “Black Cowboys”
What about the other fifteen chapels, eh Jeru? Not to mention that, well, there aren’t any […]

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