Budy Boegank: 1970s pop culture

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Friday, August 5, 2011

David Bowie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000309/bio

David Robert Jones was born on January 8, 1947 in Brixton, London, England. He is an English born musician, actor, music arranger, record producer best known for his somewhat freaky alter ego Ziggy Stardust in the 1970s, and the band with it, The Spiders.

Man he was cute in the 1960s!!!

People got their 1st taste of Bowie when in July 1969, his song Space Oddity, hit #1 on the UK charts. In 1972, he made a debut as the somewhat weird Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders, a band inspired by the glam rock era of the 1970s. In 1975, he made his 1st American crossover song, Fame, with John Lennon, and his album Young Americans hit #1 on the charts. As the years went on, he got more popular, especially in the 1990s and 2000s, with songs like Let's Dance, Modern Love, Under Pressure, China Girl.

His nicknames include Ziggy Stardust, and the Thin White Duke. In the 1960s, he changed his name from David Jones to David Bowie to avoid confusion with The Monkees lead singer Davy Jones.

Spouse

Angela Bowie: March 19, 1970-February 8, 1980, divorced, 1 child

Iman: June 6, 1992-present, 1 child

Trademark:

Constantly changing appearance

Wide ranging vocals

His one permanently dilated pupil gives him the appearance of 2 differently colored eyes.

Trivia

Both eyes are blue, but due to a fight long ago, one eye is dilated and appears darker

Has performed on several occasions with Mick Jagger, Queen, Iggy Pop, Al B Sure!, Tina Turner, Annie Lennox, Nine Inch Nails, Bing Crosby

Lied about his bisexuality to give more mystery to himself

In July 2004, underwent a triple bypass on his heart

Voted #12 on VH1's 100 Sexiest Artists. I really don't know how this one happened, or how Mick Jagger got #4 while Steven Tyler got #21

In the 1960s, he and a bunch of his friends formed a band called the Konrads, and their manager was a guy named Leslie Conn. He quit the band later and joined the Manish Boys, a blues-rock band. He said he dreamed of being like Mick Jagger, and what's funny is that later on, he would do a version of the song Dancing in the Street with Mick Jagger.

This is from the video he and Mick did, for the song Dancing in the Street.

In 1984, Bowie paired up with Mick Jagger and they both did a version of the Martha and the Vandellas hit Dancing in the Street. The video is on YouTube now. He has also gone in to acting. One of the movies he has been in is the movie The Prestige, with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale, where he played Nikola Tesla. Some of the other movies he was in include Basquiat, which is about Andy Warhol, who he plays, he was in the SpongeBob Squarepants movie Atlantis Squarepantis, he did the voice of the Lord Royal Higness, he played a fashion judge in Zoolander, with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, in Martin Scorcese's 1988 movie Last Temptation of Christ, he played Pontius Pilate, and in the movie Labyrinth, he plays Jareth, the king of the goblins.

Labyrinth

Strangely enough, he looks dead on Andy Warhol!

Zoolander

First time I saw this, I never knew who David Bowie was, I swear!!

Bowie as Nikola Tesla in the Prestige

Monday, August 1, 2011

W is for Whitesnake

Whitesnake is a British rock band that formed in 1978, founded by David Coverdale, after he left Deep Purple. Alot of their early stuff has been compared in many ways to Deep Purple, but by the mid 1980s, they moved into more heavy metal music. Even though this band has been considered to be an all British band, everyone in the band with the exception of Coverdale himself is American.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitesnake

The current members of Whitesnake consist of: David Coverdale(lead singer) and the only original member, Doug Alrich(guitars, backing vocals), Reb Beach(guitars), Brian Tichy(drums), Michael Devin(bass), Bryan Ruedy(keyboards)

Alot of their early stuff had been blues-rock and easy stuff, but then by the mid 1980s, they had moved into more heavy metal. In March 2008, Whitesnake played at the Rock2Wgtn with KISS, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, Poison, Lordi, which basically was a big concert. And in the summer of 2008, they headlined a UK tour with Def Leppard, with southern rockers Black Stone Cherry opening the UK shows in June and the band Thunder opening the shows in July, and this was to promote their Good to Be Bad album, which was their 10th studio album.

David Coverdale

Doug Alrich

Reb Beach

Brian Tichy

Michael Devin

Bryan Ruedy

Thursday, July 28, 2011

D is for Def Leppard

This English rock band formed in Sheffield as part of a new wave of British heavy metal. Ever since 1992, the band has had these members: Joe Elliot on vocals, Phil Collen on guitar, Vivian Campbell on guitarRick Savage on bass, and Rick Allen on drums. Most of their success came between the early 1980s and early 1990s. According to Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, their 1983 album Pyromania rankes #384. And in fact, they just played at the Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati, OH, just last night!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Def_Leppard

In 1992, their album Adrenalize was the first album without guitarist Steve Clark(strangely enough, this is also my dad's name, lol!). Something unique about Rick Allen is he only has 1 arm. He lost his left arm in a car accident on Dec. 31, 1984 when his Corvette hit a drystone wall. Even though he only has 1 arm, that doesn't take away from his awesome drumming, he uses his feet to do some of the back up drumming.

On January 8, 1991, their guitarist Steve Clark died from a mix of prescription drugs and alcohol in his London home. On Oct. 23, 1995, they got into the Guinness Book of World Records for playing 3 concerts in 3 continents in one day- Tangiers, Morocco; London, England; Vancouver, Canada. On Sept. 5, 2000, Def Leppard was inducted into the Rock Walk of Fame in Hollywood by friend Brian May of Queen. And Def Leppard is only one of 5 rock bands with 2 studio albums selling over 10 million copies over the world, and those bands are The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Vn Halen.

Side stuff

Joe Elliot sang lead vocals on 2 songs on Rolling Stone guitarist Ronnie Wood's album Slide on This, Phil Collen played guitar, uncredited, on Sam Kinison's Wild Thing. The video featured members of the bands Poison, Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Guns N Roses, Ratt, Aerosmith.

Them younger

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

1970s!!!!!

1970s. Most people think of this decade as the time of disco, but it seems like it's about so much more than jumpsuits, and four on the floor Philadelphia-style disco beats.

History

Roe v. Wade- state laws overturning ban on 1st and 2nd trimester abortions
May 28, 1977- the most deadly nigthclub fire ever! The Beverly Hills Supper Club burns to the ground, taking 160 people down with it and injuring over 200

The Beatles release their Let It Be album, which will be the last they ever release together

British director Stanley Kubrick releases A Clockwork Orange
Charles Manson is found guilty of the murder of actress Sharon Tate and her unborn child
10 guards and 32 prisoners found dead from police gunfire at Attica State Prison in Buffalo, N.Y.
David Berkowitz, aka the Son of Sam, recieves life in prison for 6 murders
Sex Pistols front man Sid Vicious dies at 22 from drug overdose

Stephen Biko is killed in South African jail cell

Kent State Shooting: 4 students were killed by Nat'l Guard for protesting Vietnam
Margaret Thatcher becomes the 1st female Prime Minister of Great Britain