Be My (Bowie) Wife

Season 2 Song 2

(Apologies - some mic movements)

BIG CONTENT WARNINGS (Sexual assault, rape, pedophilia)

Show notes:

• You tube song link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBO0gf27sl8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u08RG6HYaO4

Topics referenced or discussed:

• Star Trek
• Terminator 2
• The Matrix
• Hal
• AI
• President Joe
• Joe the Lion
• Richard Dawkins
• Stephen Jay Gould
• Steve Rose
• Darwin and Lamark
• New Atheism
• Blake’s 7
• Cosmetic surgery
• Looks-Maxing
• The X Files
• Jim Rose Circus
• Vincent Schiavelli
• Clavicular
• Gaza
• Peter Thiel
• The Organic Composition of Capital
• Data Centres
• Pearl & Dean
• Deep Thought
• Roland Rat
• Kevin the Gerbil
• EM Forster
• The Cyberiad
• Utopia
• Ronald Reagan
• Nietzche
• Bill Hicks
• Agent Smith
• Believe in science..?!
• Covid
• Scepticism
• The Demon-Haunted Mind
• Gary Numan
• The Becoming (Nine Inch Nails)
• Poppy and Grimes
• Tolkien-inspired rock
• Harlan Ellison
• Tonight and Never Let Me Down
• Let’s Dance / Serious Moonlight Tour
• Tom Baker
• Angela Bowie
• Tony Visconti and Mick Ronson
• Ariston and ScotchTape
• Skeleton from SuperTed
• God Only Knows
• Cream
• Hendrix
• Tin Machine
• Young Americans
• Earthling
• Prodigy
• Goldie
• Charles Shaar Murray
• Yew Tree
• Lori Maddox
• Beat of Your Drum
• The Sweeney
• Elon Musk
• Citizen Vigilante
• Cultural appropriation

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Season 2 Songs 3, 4 & 5    

Show notes:    

• You tube song link:    

https://youtu.be/-c4Gj7XbrRQ?si=fHjYP9j-6IXKXmjw

https://youtu.be/OXewmtDGQFQ?si=8Z4u5THvLtBQ0V9f

https://youtu.be/WM74wALZJjk?si=rH9RsN0KT-6o17Jn

Topics referenced or discussed:  

• Hi, Ron!
• Heat Wave! 
• Alien 3
• Seasonal albums
• Moog Synthesiser 
• Famous telephone numbers
• My poor Yeti
• Goat Boy
• Marc Bolan
• Gloria Jones - Tainted Love
• Rolan Bolan & Zowie Bowie 
• Captain Buckles - Adam Buxton 
• BRIAN BLESSED! 
• Girl Loves Me
• Black Sabbath
• Nicholas Pegg 
• Chris O’ Leary 
• T-Rex
• Take That
• Nirvana - Suede - Prodigy 
• Bananarama 
• Michael Jackson ‘Bad’ 
• Moondial
• Star Trek TOS (‘Charlie X’) 
• Insanity theme
• Bleed Like a Craze, Dad
• Wishful Beginnings
• Please, Mr Gravedigger 
• Portishead ‘Third’
• The Cygnet Committee
• Alistair Crowley 
• Nietzche 
• Bowie’s political trajectory 
• Brit Lifetime Achievement Award 
• Tony Blair 
• After All - Proto-Goth
• The Cure
• Siouxie & The Banshees
• Bauhaus
• Alien Sex Fiend
• Scott Walker
• Hannibal
• Tori Amos cover of ‘After All’ 
• Velvet Underground & Nico
• Terry Gilliam 
• Vietnam War
• Full Metal Jacket - The Dear Hunter - Apocalypse Now
• My Lai Massacre
• Racism
• Johnny Speight, Til Death Us Do Part 
• Not the Same Log podcast 
• Salo 
• EP Thompson
• Colonialism in Rock 
• Valentine’s Day

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Season 2 Song 2 

(Apologies for sound issues - mic movements, at start; first few minutes).   

Show notes:   

• You tube song link:   

https://youtu.be/KrlvgARHdzc?si=STe0faSKglkToNfv

Topics referenced or discussed:  

• Terry Burns
• Cane Hospital 
• Haddon Hall 
• Music as medication 
• Mental health 
• Characters as fractured personality 
• Cut-ups
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 
• Brazil 
• Arkham Asylum 
• Bowie and Eno go to Guggin
• Sinister Gnomes
• A Small Plot of Land 
• Monty Python and The Holy Grail / Jabberwocky
• Wild Eyed Boy From Free Cloud
• Legendary Stardust Cowboy
• Daniel Johnston
• Wild Man Fischer
• Vince Taylor 
• The Aladdin Sane Lightning Bolt 
• The Prisoner 
• Huxley and Orwell
• Psychotropic drugs
• Vietnam War
• Moorhaven Hospital 
• EST
• Recorders
• Tony Visconti and Mick Ronson
• Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed
• Woody Woodmansey
• Joseph Heller
• Kurt Vonnegut 
• Librium 
• Sexuality as mental illness libel
• Jack Kerouac ‘On the Road’
• Beat Poets
• Open the dog! 
• Un Chien Andalou 
• The Buddha of Suburbia
• Kabbala 
• Who sold the world..?
• The People Under the Stairs
• Grunge voice
• Billy Corgan and Kurt Cobain
• Swedish Chef 
• Johnny Marr (The Smiths) 
• Led Zeppelin 
• Black Sabbath 
• Van Der Graff Generator

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Season 2 Song 1  

Show notes:   

• You tube song link:   

https://youtu.be/pnRNAIQAc50?si=6kGnDBOwYWxqn23d

Topics referenced or discussed: 

• Metropolis
• Mick Ronson
• Tony Visconti 
• Lodger
• Woody Woodmansey
• John Cambridge
• The Hype
• Jeff Beck
• Angela Barnett
• Jagger and Richards
• Tin Machine 
• Space Oddity (Cygnet Committee / Janine)
• Led Zeppelin - Black Sabbath - Cream 
• Folk Metal!
• Bowie hippie?
• Prince 
• Bowie-Translate
• Andy Warhol 
• Hunky Dory 
• Ziggy Stardust 
• Nirvana MTV Unplugged
• Glass Spider Tour 
• Kurt Cobain’s 50 Favourite Albums
• Lulu
• Carlos Alomar
• Dodo
• Diamond Dogs
• Guide vocals 
• Man Who Sold the World, 1995 Eno Mix
• The Width of a Circle 
• Pi 
• Kepler
• Occult 
• Sacred Geometry
• Alistar Crowley
• Friedrich Nietzsche 
• Fascism 
• Kanye West
• DJ William Blake
• Dion Fortune 
• Lou Reed
• Station to Station - Blackstar
• Primal Scream - Loaded 
• Slaughter on Tenth Avenue 
• Black Tie White Noise - I Know It’s Gonna Happen Someday 
• Morrissey - Your Arsenal / Bowie - Rock ’n Roll Suicide
• Gary Numan
• John Foxx
• Boy George
• Deep Purple
• Metallica - Megadeth - Fear Factory
• Nursery rhymes
• Ashes to Ashes
• Robert Plant
• Shakespeare 
• Bruce Springsteen
• Gilgamesh
• Van Der Graff Generator 
• Jarvis Cocker
• Suede
• The Auteurs
• Haddon Hall (Not on the alternative album cover. Your host was wrong.)
• Gabriella Rossetti 
• Lauren Bacall 
• Ophelia 
• Dinosaur Jr.
• Terry Burns 
• Monty Python - Terry Gilliam 
• David Lynch 
• Dante 
• T-Rex
• Nile Rodgers
• Jimmy Page

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Updates for Season 2 - a public service announcement

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Season 1 Mid Season Episode 4 - George Daniel Lea.

GEORGE DANIEL LEA’S Links: 

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Born-Blood-G...

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The Strange Playgrounds: http://www.strangeplaygrounds.com/.

Topics referenced or discussed:  

• Blackstar
• The Next Day
• Kit Power
• Bowie’s passing and fall-out
• Diana, Princess of Wales
• David Lynch 
• Rik Mayall
• The Young Ones and Post-Punk
• The Damned
• Motorhead
• Spike Milligan
• The Good Life
• Bottom - Godot and Pinter
• Be My (Bowie) Wife - how’s and why’s 
• Bowie Bonds
• Bass players 
• The DAM Rhythm Section (Carlos Alomar, George Murray, Dennis Davis)
• James Brown 
• Gail Ann Dorsey 
• O Superman
• Lou Reed / Transformer 
• Iggy / Bowie albums 
• La Belle et la bette
• Jump They Say / Le Jetee
• Not the Same Log 
• The Alien (Marnie the Whippet) 
• Life on Mars / Ashes to Ashes (TV)
• David Lynch 
• When the Wind Blows
• Genius Vs. Scenius 
• Never Let Me Down 
• The Falcon and the Snowman (This is Not America)
• Blah Blah Blah 
• Time Will Crawl 
• Podcasting 
• Back to Rik Mayall
• Off on a tangent: ‘Not the Same Log’ (Clash of the Titans, Alien, Quatermass, Hammer, Nigel Kneale, John Carpenter, Steven Volk, The Stone Tape, The Fly) 
• George’s details

GEORGE DANIEL LEE’S Links: 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Georg...

https://perpetualpublishing.com/produ...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Born-Blood-G...

https://perpetualpublishing.com/produ...

https://perpetualpublishing.com/produ...

The Strange Playgrounds: http://www.strangeplaygrounds.com/

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Season 1 Mid Season Episode 3 - George Daniel Lea

GEORGE DANIEL LEA’S Links: 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Georg...

https://perpetualpublishing.com/produ...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Born-Blood-G...

https://perpetualpublishing.com/produ...

https://perpetualpublishing.com/produ...

The Strange Playgrounds: http://www.strangeplaygrounds.com/

Topics referenced or discussed:   

• Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour 
• MTV
• Outside (1995 album) 
• Nine Inch Nails
• The Cure 
• Depeche Mode (Violator-era)
• Labyrinth 
• Let’s Dance
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
• David Lynch and David Bowie 
• Raymond Briggs (The Snowman & When the Wind Blows) 
• Jim Henson Creature Workshop 
• Sexual awakening 
• Michael Jackson 
• Jareth the Goblin King 
• 70s Rock Scene / groupies / underage sex
• La Belle et la bette
• Be My (Bowie) Wife
• Bowie as a Search Engine 
• German Expressionism 
• Brecht / Weill
• Orwell
• Velvet Underground
• 2016 Celebrity Cull
• Prince 
• Internet meme: 'Bowie dies - everything went to shit’
• Blackstar 
• Bowie the Magician 
• Bowie the Necromancer
• Lazarus
• Girl Loves Me (“Where the f**k did Monday go?”)
• Tony Visconti 
• Heathen 
• Bring Me the Disco King 
• Dollar Days
• Sue (or in a Season of Crime)
• Tis a Pity She was a Whore 
• Cancer
• Jacobean Revenge Tragedy 
• Bob Dylan
• Neil Young 
• David Lynch (again) 
• Young Americans 
• Aladdin Sane 
• What Ray Had to Say
• Subverting pop music
• Danny Kaye’s Inchworm (Ashes to Ashes)
• Tubby the Tuba
• By the Wings of a Dove
• Rick Wakeman and Life on Mars? 
• Music theory 
• Let’s Dance
• DIY ethic 
• Changing voice
• Adam Buxton
• Neil Tennant 
• Anthony Newlay 
• Diamond Dogs
• Billy Mackenzie (The Associates)
• Apollo 440 (‘Pain in Any Language’)
• Philip Glass
• Cover songs 
• Bowie Interviews
• Sexuality 
• Smoking - clothes - haircuts
• Mads Mikkelsen 
• PJ Harvey 
• Trent Reznor
• The 90s obscure phase
• Elton John
• Paul McCartney 
• The critics revenge
• Surviving Punk 
• Glastonbury 2000 revival of fortunes
• Life on Mars / Ashes to Ashes (TV series)
• Visconti Remixing Lodger
• Woody Woodmansey 
• The Man Who Sold the World Live Shows (Visconti)
• The Cult of Earthling 
• Bowiedolatory 

GEORGE DANIEL LEA’S Links: 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Georg...

https://perpetualpublishing.com/produ...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Born-Blood-G...

https://perpetualpublishing.com/produ...

https://perpetualpublishing.com/produ...

The Strange Playgrounds: http://www.strangeplaygrounds.com/

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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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