#Mick Woodmansey

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The Rise and Fall Of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie is Nonbinary and Bisexual!

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I quickly found out that Angie was an important catalyst when it came to Bowie making up his mind to do something. She pushed him in directions that she thought he should go and he obviously valued her opinions.

Mick Woodmansey, Spider from Mars: My Life with Bowie.

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David Bowie: The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (1972)

2020 Vinyl Reissue

Parlophone Records

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David Bowie - The Jean Genie (TOTP: 4th January 1973)

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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars

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Clip from new lesson teaching "Changes" by David Bowie. A perfect song for beginners! Get the full lesson here... https://www.drumstheword.com/product/changes-david-bowie-mick-woodmansey-video-drum-lesson-learn-how-play-drums-song/

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David Bowie Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Motion Picture Soundtrack [50th Anniversary Edition] 2023 EMI ————————————————— Tracks LP One: 01. Intro 02. Hang on to Yourself 03. Ziggy Stardust 04. Watch That Man 05. Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud 06. All the Young Dudes 07. Oh! You Pretty Things 08. Moonage Daydream 09. Changes 10. Space Oddity 11. My Death 12. Cracked Actor 13. Time

Tracks LP Two: 01. The Width of a Circle 02. Let’s Spend the Night Together 03. Suffragette City 04. White Light • White Heat 05. Medley: The Jean Genie • Love Me Do • The Jean Genie 06. Round and Round 07. Farewell Speech 08. Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide —————————————————

* Long Live Rock Archive

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David Bowie - Starman (Official Video)

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david: my hungry ass could never be a brain surgeon

mick: care to expand on that pls? actually, no, I don't want to know

trevor: honestly what the fuck

woody: alright, that's enough crack for today, david

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Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - Moonage Daydream

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David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust - The Motion Picture

RCA PL 84862(2), 1983

Released: October 1983

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Ziggy and the Spiders

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Song of the Day:

Oh! You Pretty Things - David Bowie

(From the album Hunky Dory, released in 1971)

(This song is going to ruin my spotify wrapped)

This was the first song he wrote for the "Hunky Dory" album. The song came to him in the early hours of a morning in January 1971. He recalled: "I couldn't sleep … this song was going 'round in my head. I had to get out of bed and just play it … so that I could get back to sleep again."

The song contains a descending diatonic major progression that Bowie would use for fellow album track "Changes" and later "All the Young Dudes" (Another one of my favorites).

David Bowie – lead vocals, piano, handclaps Mick Ronson – backing vocals, string arrangements, handclaps Trevor Bolder – bass guitar Mick Woodmansey – drums Rick Wakeman – piano Unknown musician – cello

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I know people are either following me because I used to post about Star Trek constantly or because I post about Bowie a lot, so here’s some random David Bowie and Star Trek connections I’ve been collecting for the past year or so. This is purely self-indulgent, but if you find this sort of thing interesting, here you go.

This is from an unpublished interview for Zygote magazine from 1971 where he was discussing the meaning of various songs. The particular song he's talking about here is "The Supermen." In case you don't want to read the full article for context, he mentioned Star Trek to act as a comparison, he was not saying that that was the initial inspiration/meaning.

This ad has song notes that Bowie wrote for the album Hunky Dory. The one of relevance is “Bewlay Brothers,” which is at the bottom of the list. It says, “Another in the series of David Bowie confessions — Star Trek in a Leather Jacket.”

You might be wondering what this means, well Bowie never really gave a consistent answer as to what this song was about. And according to Ken Scott, the producer of the album, Bowie purposefully wrote it to give a song to Americans who were reading too much into things (this was in the era of the Paul McCartney actually died and was replaced conspiracy lol). Bowie did say at different points that it was more or less about his own half-brother, but who knows if he changed his mind about that.

Although as a side note I will say that some of the lyrics sound like they could be describing Star Trek episodes lol

My Life With Bowie: Spider From Mars by Woody Woodmansey (drummer for the Spiders From Mars, Bowie’s band during the Ziggy Stardust era). He’s describing the bar in The Rainbow Room, as they were rehearsing for the most elaborate of the Ziggy Stardust concerts in August of 1972.

Mick Ronson talking about the Ziggy Stardust boots, the clip is from the documentary Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story. Angie, in case people don’t know, was Bowie’s first wife.

Side note about this one though, Bowie compared his own boots to wrestler boots (see image below). But Mick’s shoes weren’t far off from the Star Trek boots.

Book page from Moonage Daydream: The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust, which was written by David Bowie and photographer Mick Rock.

Bowie in Brussels in 1978 doing (his best attempt at) the Vulcan LLAP salute, photo by Gie Knaeps.

Because I’m me, I’ve been trying to figure out what song he did this during—with certainty I can say it was during the second half of the set after the intermission. That would make it so that they were either songs from Ziggy Stardust or from Station to Station.

My guess (and it really is only a guess) is that it could have been during “TVC15.” When he performed it live he’d often sing “she’s my main creature feature” and sometimes do devil horns with his fingers and whatnot. Seems like a plausible spot, anyhow. The other one is potentially the song “Ziggy Stardust,” but just based on how he usually performed that one, such as where he’d add gestures and how he tended to convey the emotions of the song, I find it more unlikely.

But I wasn’t there and these are literally just guesses. On the off chance someone was there and that they inexplicably remember this, I would love to know.

Gates McFadden, before being Beverley Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation, was the choreographer for the film Labyrinth, where of course Bowie played Jareth the Goblin King.

And to avoid possible confusion, she was not the choreographer for "Magic Dance" at least when it came to Bowie's moves, as that was Charles Augin. She was, however, the choreographer for "As The World Falls Down" with the ballroom scene.

Lyrics from one of the Tin Machine albums (Bowie’s band in the late 80s-early 90s, which Bowie wrote most of the lyrics for, minus a few songs).

Additionally Iman, who Bowie met in 1990 and married in 1992, was in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country as Martia. She was on set filming at least in April of 1991 in LA, as you can see in this filming schedule I found on an auction website. I don’t know how long she was filming for, though.

(Side note, Bowie was in LA at least towards the end of April/beginning May as he talked about how he and Iman saw the riots that happened then. No I’m not saying he visited the set, since for one Shatner says he never met Bowie, but I still think it’s neat he was generally around when she was filming).

And a little snippet from one article (the screenshot is from one of those interview compilation books).

It’s not actually that much in the grand scheme of things and more than anything just shows that Bowie was a fan of the show. It should also be remembered that Star Trek wasn’t ever really cited as a huge influence for him in terms of aesthetic, which is a rather common assumption people make, but I thought that these were fun nonetheless. I’m sure I also missed/forgot stuff, so if I come across more I'll probably add to this later on.

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I've been reading alot of books about Rockstars and everything but never really about David Bowie. I'm just wondering why do people hate Angie so much? She seems nice but people constantly tears her down. Though I think that Iman and David deserve each other and was really in love, I've always wondered why people hate Angie. I love your blog btw!

Hey there, thank you very much for your interest. It's a bit complex (not really), but I'll save you the time. Most of the hate Angie gets is because Bowie himself started hating her and refusing to talk about her and his fans do the same.

[David] never demonstrated any affection or gratitude after we parted. He fired anyone who mentioned my name. Pictures of us together were destroyed. He would never let it be acknowledged what I had done for him.

— Angie Bowie for The Mail, 2016.

Angie was very popular with Bowie fans in the 70s and was VERY kind to them. She spent hours answering fan letters and even wrote to them from JAPAN. She even fought in Japan with the local police to defend fans. After the divorce, David's attitude changed and over the years his fans became what they are today. THAT was Angie's opinion of the fans:

Fans are smart. They bang on cars and try to get in to see you, and what could be more wonderful? I don't understand how anyone could not think about the fans. They're the ones who make it worthwhile. The music business doesn't make it worthwhile. You don't make records for record company executives, you make them for people.

— Angie Bowie, Creem Magazine, June 1974.

There's also the fact that Angie said in her book that David was aggress*ve towards her once, a fact that a lot of people don't mention because "she must obviously be an attention-seeking b*tch and did something really bad towards David and that's why he doesn't like her," right? It's basically that most people think of her.

Fans can forgive aggress*on, Nazi gestures, underage girls and parental alienation, but God forbid if a woman talks about her experience with that same man. Of all Angie's character flaws, because nobody's perfect, NOTHING compares to this.

Oh, I almost forgot, there's also the unforgivable fact that she had issues and didn't like Corinne Schwab. Can you imagine?! Imagine not liking dear Coco! Unforgivable!!!!

Regarding Angie's issues with Corinne, here is an excerpt where Angie mentions Corinne and a video of Nina Hagen talking about when David's "management" wouldn't let her talk to the singer she was opening for.

Ironies aside, I have a few posts that mention this and I hope you don't mind me pointing them out for you to check out. I also encourage you to check out the angie bowie tag on my blog.

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2 -> This and number 3 is a hate ask I received about Angie; is full of delusions of whoever sent this but I stand by my answer.

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4 -> Ask I received about this erasure that some try to make of her influence in David's life. On that, I'll let Mick Woodmansey, on his book, "Spider from Mars: My Life with Bowie", speak for me: "I quickly found out that Angie was an important catalyst when it came to Bowie making up his mind to do something. She pushed him in directions that she thought he should go and he obviously valued her opinions."

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I don't really care enough about David's second marriage. I just think that not loving a woman is no excuse for not respecting her or doing the right thing. Keith Richards loved Anita Pallenberg and didn't turn his back on her even when he fell in love with Patti Hansen, but even if he never had loved Anita, it wouldn't be okay for him to throw her under the bus and try to hide the influence Anita had on him. David's attitudes towards Angie, that's what a better man would never do.

Anyway, I hope you read Angie's book one day and other materials about David and draw your own conclusions. I'm not saying people should believe her 100% only because she's a woman, but the problem is that she's not listened to by his fans and not taken seriously enough. The influence she had on him is also not fully recognized and appreciated, unlike other women like Anita Pallenberg who deservedly has recognition for her influence on Keith Richards and consequently on the Stones.

Thank you for your affection for my blog. I'll end this post with this quote from Angie:

Women friends are really the strength and backbone, because I think they understand you so much better than someone who is of the male species. It's incredible to believe that genitalia can cause so much brainrot.

— Angie Bowie, about how female friends helped her get through her divorce.