Season 1 Mid Season Episode 2 - Ashes to Ashes Video.

• You tube song link:

https://youtu.be/HyMm4rJemtI?si=ckmC0f4Kv5HQw9O4

Topics referenced or discussed:

• Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour
• MTV
• Top of the Pops
• The Chart Show
• Michael Jackson ‘Thriller’
• Peter Gabriel ‘Sledgehammer’
• Bugles’ ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’
• Adam and the Ants Video Promos
• Lodger videos
• “Heroes” video
• Be My Wife video
• David Mallet
• Kenny Everett Video Show
• Michael Jackson ‘Black & White' Video
• Morphing
• Iman
• Jamiroquai 'Virtual Insanity' Video
• Smashing Pumpkins ‘Ava Adore’ video
• Peter Greenaway’s ‘The Cook, The Thief, The Wife & His Lover’
• Cribbs
• The Osbournes
• Cable TV
• Sky Television
• Nine Inch Nails Videos / Watershed
• BSB’s The Power Station
• Doctor Who: 1980-1 season
• Quantel Imaging
• Solarisation
• The Cleopatras
• Richard Griffiths
• Fall of Eagles
• Monty Python’s ‘Surrounded by film’ sketch
• Cinematic naturalism Vs. Video stylisation
• Nefertiti
• The Blitz Kids’ Acolytes
• New Romantics
• Boy George-Marilyn-Spandau Ballet-Duran Duran
• Mick Jagger
• Steve Strange-Visage
• Elise Brazier
• Darla Jane Gilroy
• Judith Frankland
• Gary Numan
• Teenage Wildlife
• Placebo
• Suede
• PJ Harvey
• Nas
• Damon Albarn
• The Rolling Stones
• Ageism in pop
• The Pierrot
• Lindsay Kemp Mime Troupe
• Les Enfants Dus Paradis
• Peggy and Haywood Jones
• HR Giger
• Major Tom
• PVPI-Health & Safety
• Live TV
• 5-Star-Aswad -Children’s TV live phone-in controversies
• Monica Seles
• Noel Edmonds Late Late Breakfast Show (Michael Lush accident)
• Doctor Who water tank accident
• Celebrity
• The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
• The Strange World of Gurney Slade
• The Young Ones
• James Joyce
• Quatermass
• Diana Dors
• Ultravox ‘Vienna’ video
• Let’s Dance
• Live Aid
• Howard Jones
• Nick Kershaw
• Queen
• U2
• Talking Heads ‘Once in a Lifetime’ video
• The Muppets
• Floria Sigismondi
• Walter Sterne

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Season 1 Mid Season Episode 1 - Bowie Bonds.

• You tube song link: N/A.

Topics referenced or discussed:

• Marathons
• Bath
• I Don’t Speak German
• Not the Same Log
• You’re Not Alone (Show)
• Moonage Daydream (Film)
• V&A David Bowie Is…
• Orson Welles
• Shakespeare
• Egypt
• Therapy
• Bowie’s Finances
• Tony DeFries
• Ken Pitt
• Nicholas Pegg
• Chris O’Leary
• Ozzy and Sharon Osborne
• MainMain
• Iggy & the Stooges
• Rights to the Master Tapes
• John Lennon and Mick Jagger/Rolling Stones
• Bonds
• A View to a Kill
• Earthling
• David Pullman (Wall Street)
• EMI
• BowieNet
• James Brown
• 55 million dollars
• Prudential America
• Lost Highway
• Tin Machine
• ChangesOneBowie
• Selling Song Rights
• Seven
• Moby
• Moodys
• Napster
• Jeremy Paxman Interview
• Michael Caine
• Paul Macartney
• Michael Jackson
• Prince on Mariah Carey’s deal
• Batman (1989)
• 2000 Glastonbury
• Bill Zysblatt
• Corrine ‘Coco’ Schwab
• Jools Holland
• Pepsi Ad (Tina Turner)
• Evian Ad
• Sexual Harassment Allegation
• Modern Love
• The Buddha of Suburbia
• Suede
• Hours…
• Heathen

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Season 1 Songs 9 & 10 Show notes.

• You tube song link:

https://youtu.be/kSDm7jcsZlM?si=O6iS-KNZSlrDFbzC

Topics referenced or discussed:

• LP Vs. EP
• Tarkovsky
• Music Formats
• B-sides
• Playlists
• BBC Radio 2 - Tony Blackburn
• Station to Station - Heathen - Blackstar
• Portishead - Third
• Doppelgängers
• Elvis Costello & The Attractions
• Elvis Presley
• The Buddha of Suburbia
• Dave Gahan - Gary Numan - Simon Le Bon
• Always Crashing in the Same Car
• Suicide ideation
• Blue Jean
• The Man Who Sold the World (Album)
• Class and Church / law and morality
• Consumerism
• Bowie the lyricist
• Day In Day Out
• Tin Machine
• Lou Reed - Dirty Blvd. / New York
• Toy (Album)
• Age and visibility
• Theme of isolation
• Damon Albarn
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (Charrington)
• Bottom (TV series)
• Bowie the singer
• Freddie Mercury, Annie Lennox
• Ryko Disc
• From the vaults
• Bowie Bonds
• Christopher Walken
• Bobcat Goldthwait
• Michael Caine
• Motorcycle Emptiness
• Free Town
• Prophets
• Marc Bolan
• JRR Tolkien
• Lady Stardust
• Mob justice
• Mime, Lindsay Kemp
• Kate Bush ‘Moving’
• Tibet
• Brecht/Weill
• Paul Nicholas
• Musical Theatre
• Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Lazarus
• Eddie Izzard
• Buckfastleigh Monks
• Cabaret
• Silly Boy Blue / Karma Man / Seven Years in Tibet
• Suede ‘The Drowners’
• Elaine Paige and Michael Ball
• Queen
• Rebel Rebel: We are the Dead: Golden Years: Staton to Station
• Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite
• Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds
• Punk
• London Calling
• Meat Loaf
• Post-Post Punk
• The Wicker Man
• Hey Jude
• The Cygnet Committee
• Doubling
• Glastonbury
• Postmodernism
• UFOs
• Bruce Springsteen
• Cameron Crowe
• Jarvis Cocker
• Sorted For E’s and Whizz
• Mick Ronson
• ‘Whispering’ Bob Harris
• Old Grey Whistle Test
• Hammersmith Odeon Gig
• Philip Glass ‘Akhenaten’
• Conversation Piece
• Space Oddity (single) 1979 re-recording
• Toy
• Neil Young
• The Hype
• The Prettiest Star
• Tony Visconti
• Gus Dudgeon

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• Trigger warning - Poor Mental Health

Season 1 Songs 6 7 8 - Elvis … God Wants a Word Show notes

• You tube song link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73oBD2xLC4k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k409Tpjj6Fs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKuCzaARmA8

Topics referenced or discussed:

• LP Vs. EP
• Tarkovsky
• Music Formats
• B-sides
• Playlists
• BBC Radio 2 - Tony Blackburn
• Station to Station - Heathen - Blackstar
• Portishead - Third
• Doppelgängers
• Elvis Costello & The Attractions
• Elvis Presley
• The Buddha of Suburbia
• Dave Gahan - Gary Numan - Simon Le Bon
• Always Crashing in the Same Car
• Suicide ideation
• Blue Jean
• The Man Who Sold the World (Album)
• Class and Church / law and morality
• Consumerism
• Bowie the lyricist
• Day In Day Out
• Tin Machine
• Lou Reed - Dirty Blvd. / New York
• Toy (Album)
• Age and visibility
• Theme of isolation
• Damon Albarn
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (Charrington)
• Bottom (TV series)
• Bowie the singer
• Freddie Mercury, Annie Lennox
• Ryko Disc
• From the vaults

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Season 1 Song 5 - Answer the phone Neil: The Cygnet Committee

• Trigger warning - Poor Mental Health

Season 1 Song 5 - Answer the phone Neil- Show notes

• You tube song link:

https://youtu.be/ZZ2VMPPyyck?si=IQUGHBKP1N3NUBYl

• Topics referenced or discussed:
• EMI
• Glastonbury 2000
• Asian Dub Foundation
• Twitter (Pre-Musk)
• Stewart Lee
• Naughty jokes
• Blackstar
• King Crimson (In The Court of the Crimson King)
• Inflation Calculator
• Mike Garson
• Carlos Alomar
• Earl Slick
• Mick Ronson
• E-Street Band (Roy Bittan)
• Rick Wakeman
• Training Vs. Untrained (musicians/actors)
• Daniel Day-Lewis
• Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
• Station to Station
• Lynda La Plante and Mick Jagger
• Gail Ann Dorsey
• Hippie culture
• Bowie’s politics
• Rock Against Racism
• Eric Clapton
• Bob Dylan
• Blank verse
• Bowie the singer
• Five Years
• The Pretty Things are Going to Hell
• Antifa
• Beckenham Arts Lab
• Winstanley
• The Diggers
• The Levellers (not the band!)
• MC-5 ‘Kick Out the Jams’
• Free State
• Somebody Up there Likes Me
• Big Brother
• Moses
• Socialism and Anarchism
• Generational tension
• 9/11 - War on Terror - Invasion of Iraq
• 1980s
• Let’s Dance
• Anthony Newlay
• Brian Eno - Roxy Music (and Social Democracy)
• Feminism in hippe culture

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Season 1 Songs 3 & 4 - Odes to Hermione - Show notes

**Trigger warnings for content (poor mental health)

• Link to the song version we listened to -

https://youtu.be/Xw1mmqMD9j0?si=7iolOYVMQzf0OuL4

https://youtu.be/UMU261WsLlc?si=uSwPt2vSysEfC8hB

• Topics referenced or discussed:
• Davey Jones & The Monkees, band & TV legends
• Tom Jones, singer
• Jim Bowie - The Bowie Knife
• Song Of Norway, Operetta
• A Reality Tour, Bowie
• Where are We Now? The Next Day, Bowie
• Tony Oursler, artist
• Breaking up (‘…is so very hard to do.’)
• Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach ‘Painted From Memory’ (‘This House is Empty Now’)
• Beak-up albums (Bob Dylan ‘Blood on the Tracks’, Joni Mitchell ‘Blue’, Beck ‘Sea Change’, Carol King ‘Tapestry’, Lorde ‘Melodrama’)
• Angela Barnett (Bowie) ‘Be My Wife’ (Low)
• John Cage, artist
• Stereo, audio technique
• Neil Young, artist
• Gender stereotypes / sexism
• Hours (‘Thursday’s Child,’ ‘Something in the Air,’ ‘Survive’)
• Artifice Vs. Authenticity
• I’m Not Quite (Demo)
• David Bowie, The Actor
• Stanislavsky - emotional memory
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Philip Jeffries)
• Labyrinth, film
• Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence
• Night and Fog in Japan, film
• Tom Conti, actor
• The Hunger, film
• “Heroes”, Bowie
• Blackout, Bowie
• Word on a Wing, Bowie
• Space Oddity, Bowie
• Love and romance
• Iman, wife
• Heroin phase
• Polyamory, multi-partner relationship
• Bisexuality, sexual orientation
• Gender fluidity, unfixed gender expression
• Veronica Lake and Lauren Bacall, actresses
• Susan Sarandon, Tina Turner, Melissa Hurley, Romy Haag, romantic partners
• Berlin, capital city
• Mick Jagger, artist
• Melody Maker, music publication
• Norwegian Wood, song
• Tin Machine, band
• Les Dawson, comedian
• When I Live My Dream, song
• Suede (Animal Nitrate, Metal Mickey, The Drowners), bands
• Hunky Dory (Fill My Heart, Kooks), albums
• The Man Who Sold the World (The Supermen), song
• Time Will Crawl, song
• Diamond Dogs, Bowie
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German polymath

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** Trigger warning - loss of a parent

Season 1 Song 2 - A Death in the family- Show notes

• You tube song link: (1:30] https://youtu.be/IXdZ57xhOik?si=rz2nnvyhFT7kPXXi

Topics referenced or discussed:

• Davy Jones and the King Bees (Band)
• The Mannish Boys (Band)
• The Lower Third (Band)
• Arnold Corns (Band)
• Q/NME (New Music Express) (Music Magazines)
• The Beatles: Abbey Road/Revolver (Band: Albums)
• Simon & Garfunkel (Band)
• Jonie Mitchell (Singer Songwriter)
• Arlo & Woody Guthrie: Alice’s Restaurant Massacre (Singer Songwriters: Song)
• Bob Dylan (Singer Songwriter)
• Marc Bolan (Singer Songwriter)
• Feathers: Hermione Farthingale (Folk Trio: Person, Lover)
• Loss of a parent (Trigger warning)
• Haywood Jones (Person, Father)
• Credit cards, Barclaycard & the first ATM (Event)
• Reg Varney (Actor)
• Manson Murders > Kray Twins (Event > Organised Crime Gang)
• Mental Health & suicide (Trigger Warning)
• Terry Burns (Person, Maternal Half-Brother)
• U2: Zooropa, Brian Eno (Band: Album, Producer)
• Also mentioned:
• Dadaism, Cubists (Art Movements)

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Season 1 Song 1 - Space Oddity - Show notes

• You tube song link: David Bowie - Space Oddity (Official Video)[22:30] - https://youtu.be/iYYRH4apXDo?si=IfEx8xL9a0cJW6qm
• Topics referenced or discussed:
• Our Friends in the North, Terry Cox “Tosker” played by Mark Strong (tv)
• 2001 A Space Odyssey (film)
• The Right Stuff (film)
• Apollo 11 & the Space Race (event)
• Star Trek (tv)
• Quatermass Experiment (tv)
• Various pop music inc The Beatles
• Manson murders (event)
• 60s Anti-war protests (event)
• Stonewall riots (event)

Explicit language - single reference that we may swear

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