BEST BOWIE TRIBUTE Rick Wakeman’s Tribute To David Bowie – Life On Mars “I’d just played on what I considered to be the best song I’d ever had the privilege to work on.” Rick Wakeman That’s right, the guy who was in and out of Yes, who brought them to their height with “Roundabout” and […]

MOONAGE DAYDREAM I’m an alligator I’m a mama-papa coming for you The first Bowie song that hooked me. It was the sound of Mick Ronson’s guitar. Bowie plucked him from obscurity and made him an icon. Ronson ultimately co-produced Lou Reed’s “Transformer,” cut his own album, “Slaughter On 10th Avenue,” worked with Ian Hunter and […]

Won’t you come out to play. I didn’t know it was a real person, a real story, about Mia Farrow’s sister who wanted to reach enlightenment faster than anybody else so she stayed inside meditating for three weeks straight. John and George were enlisted to help her see the light, the one outdoors. We knew […]

I played this for my mother. I didn’t buy “Fresh,” not at first, my initial Cream purchase was “Disraeli Gears,” way before “Sunshine Of Your Love” got airplay, I experienced it as an album, it revealed itself to me with each play, and the song that hooked me was the second side opener, “Tales Of […]