What will Bowie do now? Conquer Broadway? The Elephant Man, starring Bowie as Joseph "John" Merrick, begins a four month residency at the Booth Theatre on Broadway in September of 1980 following some shorter runs in Denver and Chicago.

Bowie is all grown up on side b. Also featured: a cameo by Pete Townsend of Who fame, and a Tom Verlaine cover that almost featured a Tom Verlaine cameo... tune in to find out what happened!

SONGS IN THIS EPISODE:

Teenage Wildlife

Scream Like a Baby

Kingdom Come

Because You're Young

It's No Game (No. 2)

Welcome to the 1980s! We head outdoors on a beautiful summer night to cover Bowie's first album of a new decade that also feels like the last album of one of his many eras.

SONGS IN THIS EPISODE:

It's No Game (No. 1)

Up the Hill Backwards

Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

Ashes to Ashes

Fashion

This was tough. We picked 15 songs. There are 31 songs in this trilogy. We wanted to pick them all.

How many other albums' side B kicks off with three music videos in a row? And then a different song lands very near the top of one of our all-time lists. Bowie closes out the '70s with a bang.

SONGS IN THIS EPISODE:

DJ

Look Back in Anger

Boys Keep Swinging

Repetition

Red Money

We welcome artist/musician and podcast cousin Justin Waterman back to the show to discuss Bowie's 1979 LP Lodger. Is one of these songs an all-time favourite for one of us? Tune in to find out!

SONGS IN THIS EPISODE:

Fantastic Voyage

African Night Flight

Move On

Yassassin (Turkish for: Long Live)

Red Sails

We head back to the movies for Just a Gigolo (1978), Bowie's second feature film.

We watched this so that you don't have to.

Bowie's 1978 world tour, The Isolar II Tour or the Stage Tour, stretches the globe and produces plenty of audio and video materials for us to cover including the live album Stage, 2018 Record Store Day release Welcome to the Blackout, and his performance on the German TV show Musikladen.

Favourite live album alert! But which one of us? And which release? Tune in to find out!

Fantastic Voyage Podcast is honoured to welcome piano virtuoso Mike Garson to the show to discuss his amazing career and his collaborations with David Bowie. We touch on everything from the beginning of his career in music, to an inside look at his 70s, 90s and 00s work and relationship with Bowie, to how he's keeping Bowie's legacy alive and strong with his A Bowie Celebration Tour.

For the first time ever you can find a video version of this episode on YouTube!

https://youtu.be/XmyzaPhBDNE

Continued "Heroes" discussion.

SONGS IN THIS EPISODE:

V-2 Schneider

Sense of Doubt

Moss Garden

Neuköln

The Secret Life of Arabia