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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary)

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · Jun 4

A brief note about the Rebel Rebel revision (on sale July 8, but you can order it now): bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2025/06/04/r...

Rebel Rebel: A New Version

Presenting: The second edition of Rebel Rebel: The Songs of David Bowie, 1963-1976, which will go on sale on Tuesday, 8 July 2025, and which can be pre-ordered right now. This site gives you some o…

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 16h

Teenage memory: having John Byrne sign a copy of Legends and JB turning to the guy next to him and saying, "a real Mr Potato Head comic here"

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 20h

Eno diary, 12 Oct 1995: "Marcus Berkmann in Spectator, good review of Outside - ‘Bowie best when at his most pretentious’ (told you so)."

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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 1d

this is a pretty odd/fun john cale show from 1981 with a one-off band & a bunch of not totally finished songs that i don't think were ever played again.

Live Tapes @livetapes.heads.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

JOHN CALE AND JAMES-HONEYMAN SCOTT AND CHRIS SPEDDING @ NYC 1981-10-11 https://ijwthstd.blogspot.com/2025/10/john-cale-and-james-honeyman-scott-and.html

JOHN CALE AND JAMES-HONEYMAN SCOTT AND CHRIS SPEDDING @ NYC 1981-10-11

Sounds so much better than just "and Friends" LIMITED TIME / LAST TIME https://pixeldrain.com/u/ALziBDCj JOHN CALE & FRIENDS Mudd Club Ne...

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 1d

a very 1981 photo. "So, your movie is about...Commies, Mr Beatty?"

Nancy Reagan, Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton, xmas at the White House, 1981

Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 1d

it's been great to see so many appreciations for "Shoot the Moon," a movie that's still--40+ yrs later--underappreciated. Keaton's character is also the only person with a moral center, or an ability to perceive reality, in "Manhattan"; she's the movie's one adult.

Alfred Soto @sotoalfred.bsky.social · 1d

The mumbles, hesitations, nose scratches, nervous laughter that Brando, Clift, et. al. introduced to acting — Diane Keaton incorporated them into a range of performances. She was a superb dramatic actor (SHOOT THE MOON) and a dizzy comedian. RIP. wp.me/pzXeC-e5Y

On Diane Keaton (now RIP)

La-dee-da, la-la. Few actresses have based a performance, let alone an early career, on the melodic and rhythmic possibilities of this aside, uttered by Diane Keaton in Annie Hall when she needs sp…

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 1d

Grimes and Lennon, the podcast: "So imagine, like, a super-AI that can play every note at once in every sequence and then there's no more need for music." "Yes! the fookin robots will replace us! it's about time!"

Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 1d

yeah, in 2020 he could've ricocheted from dry-cleaning his groceries before bringing them into his house to "was it a Chinese intelligence plot and COVID doesn't exist?" in the course of a few months

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 1d

Neil's a great example. heart's in the right place, but still wrote a song on his latest album complaining his daughter won't respond to his emails

Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 1d

i can see him being so contrarian he winds up there almost by accident, and then veering back

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 1d

definitely a guy who does "his own research"

Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 1d

he's 99% pro-Brexit, for incomprehensible reasons

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 1d

this reminded me of when on Lennon's recent would-have-been 85th birthday, i wondered just how awful JL would've been on Twitter in the 2010s

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 1d

LizardKing: 100K followers, 4 following"

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 1d

Re-watching Shoot the Moon in honor of Diane Keaton. Holy hell, what a great movie. And so intense. Really captures that feeling of being in the pressure cooker of a failing relationship. As divorce dramas go, Marriage Story is Pee-wee's Big Adventure compared to this.

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 1d

EC is the peak of Listen to the Lyrics Man but the music endures cos of the hooks, bass and drums

Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 1d

Also up there

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

One of Keaton’s first screen roles was in an episode of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery. In 2011 she made an HBO pilot playing a thinly-disguised Nikki Finke, but it didn’t get picked up. Her only regular TV role was on Young Pope.

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 1d

A record where 'this is one of the best LP sides ever?" is matched by "no, *this* one is"

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 1d

One of the great weird connections: Diane Keaton's look in the Young Pope invoking "hours" era Bowie

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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 1d

Al Pacino says in his memoir that after he went bankrupt, Diane Keaton gloriously went off on his entertainment lawyer. “Yeah, you’re going to tell me, ‘Oh, he’s an artist.’ No. He. Is. An idiot.”

“Arthur began to explain that I was insolvent, due to mismanagement of my assets. He didn’t play a part in it, I know that. But the words just washed right over me.
Diane, however, was furious. She got up from her seat, and she started to question him: “How could this happen?” He was hemming and hawing, well, you know, this and that.
She just exploded. She went up to Arthur and was now face-to-face with him. She backed him into a corner of his office, pointed at me, and said, “Do you know who he is?”
He said, “Well, you know.”
She was practically grabbing him by the lapels: “No, tell me who he is.” He started to speak, but Diane jumped in again: “Yeah, you’re going to tell me, ‘Oh, he’s an artist.’ No. He. Is. An idiot.”
I just stood there. What could I say?
Diane went on: “He’s an ignoramus. When it comes to this, you’ve got to take care of him.”

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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 1d

One of the most underrated adult dramas of the 80s. Love Shoot the Moon so much.

James Sanford @jamessanford.bsky.social · 1d

If you’ve never seen #DianeKeaton in SHOOT THE MOON, you’re missing out. An absolutely powerhouse performance that hits an astonishing range of notes. I promise, you’ll think of her every single time you hear “If I Fell.”

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 1d

There's an Oct '78 Wire bootleg where they do "Lowdown" and the crowd sings along on the title line: you can hear Colin Newman sound a bit taken aback: "oh *this* won't do"

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 1d

As a side note this guy was perfectly cast for "still-toking middle age Boomer dad"

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 1d

It's gradual, reflecting radio segregation in the 70s: Ike and Tina were popular on the 69 tour

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 1d

I think they were ok with Wonder (helped he'd been having hits for a decade) but no doubt Tosh dealt with all sorts of nonsense

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