Gatiss + Placebo + Brecht + RSC worked very well I thought

www.warwickshireworld.com/whats-on/art...

Slightly weird thing to include in this list - you might as well include Blackstar

www.thetimes.com/culture/art/...

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They had quite a nice relationship, so far as I can tell. Apart from anything else, Prince mimicked the Bowie/Ronson guitar thing, Bowie sang wistfully that his 'little red Corvette' had 'driven by', both released albums via the medium of the Mail on Sunday

Funny detail in Guardian piece about Prince

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

The Hit Factory pumping out chartbusting hit after chartbusting hit there

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This month's episode may consist entirely of a long discussion about the elaborate backstory Bowie constructed for Pontius Pilate to play him in the movie version of Last Temptation of Christ (h/t to @bowiegod.bsky.social for his excellent book "David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God"!)

Ha, fantastic - thank you, and can't wait to hear it!

Bowie: Apocrypha & Miscellany, part 1 Tidbits and morsels that live outside the book

A taste of Bowiegnosticism

bowiegod.substack.com/p/bowie-apoc...

Thank you - glad you enjoyed it!

I ought really to have asked - I'm sure there must be a whole other side to the place - but I was quite taken with what I saw. And that wine story is enough to make you see a whole town in a pretty positive light

Also, news just in, St Andrews is really nice

Really enjoyable evening at Topping & Co in St Andrews yesterday - extremely grateful to everyone who came to hear me talk Bowie and flattered by the excellent turnout (including a man who'd driven 1h30m in terrible weather). Superb questions too. And what a wonderful bookshop!

Excited to talk about this — finally — and to be working with Pan Macmillan. Better do some work.

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Enjoyable Facebook juxtaposition

Friday 27th - David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God - Peter Ormerod YouTube video by St. Mark's Church L. Spa

It was such a pleasure to be invited to speak about my book at St Mark's in Leamington - it's a really important place for me (and for many others, I'm sure). Great questions from the reverend vicar and the audience. The video has just been published - here it is

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjHb...

Thanks Tami - so glad you enjoyed it!

I think it's OK for the Guardian to write about sport

The phrase 'An evening with' makes me think of Homer Simpson:

"Oh, oh, an evening with Philip Glass... just an evening?"

Tomorrow night! Leamington Spa!

As an aside: the critic (Colin Marshall) wonders if I'd have written the book were it not for a particular Bowie quote from 1996. I'm pretty sure I would have, but that quote (and other similar ones) gave me confidence that I was on the right lines, and those kind of things can matter

I was v mindful of the different kinds of people who might read it - those who know loads about Bowie but less about religion, those who know loads about religion but less about Bowie, and other permutations. Also knew I was dealing with big and complex stuff but wanted to keep it readable

Après Bowie, le déluge | Los Angeles Review of Books On the 10th anniversary of David Bowie’s death, three books consider the rock star from new angles.

Interesting piece in the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social looking at three recent Bowie books - Alex Larman's, Paul Morley's and mine, which is described as 'a highly readable biographical overview, suitable for the non-Bowieologist'. Pleased about this!

lareviewofbooks.org/article/davi...

And it sounds like the spirituality stuff is getting a proper airing. Maybe there's a book in that

This is more promising though

This may well be great but I'm a bit alarmed by this bit of the press release (Harty wasn't 'reduced' to anything - he was just being Harty, and Bowie didn't seem in control of very much at all)

There's something I find incredibly artistic about this somehow. It's like a moving painting.

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