Be My (Bowie) Wife

• 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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He spent his life obsessed with the music and art of David Bowie. Whereas, I spent the early years of our marriage trying to escape it. 

Spoiler alert: I failed.  

Welcome to Be My (Bowie) Wife, the podcast where a lifelong fanatic and a converted skeptic take a marital tour through the sprawling universe of the Starman himself.

And after years of repeat listening for him…and a growing curiosity from me, we are going to share our kitchen table debates.

Every week, we are going to explore different aspects of the life and art of Bowie. 

But fair warning: we love a good tangent and never miss a rabbit hole.

Subscribe right now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Join us for Be My (Bowie) Wife—our first official episodes drop very soon!

So put on your red shoes... and we will upload on Tuesday … well we might just stretch it to Wednesday ...

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