Iman Book/cd Winners And More Pictures From Launch

David and Iman at the launch of 'I AM IMAN' at DKNY,
13th November 2001. Picture by Patrick McMullan.

Last night they loved you...

Weren't they good? - Last night's chat(s) with David and Iman (in celebration of the release of 'I AM IMAN') were most entertaining affairs, and much fun was had by all...I finally laughed myself to sleep around 5:00am my time after the final chats this morning, for which a buoyant Sailor was in fine form. Hope your arm is OK Bladz!

In further celebration of 'I AM IMAN', we have a whole bunch of pictures from Tuesday night's launch party, including a couple more of Iman and David, and a trillion celebs! Go here to see the page of thirty or so pictures.

We also have five winners from last night's trivia chat, who each win one of the 'I AM IMAN' limited book and CD bundles, signed by both David and Iman. The winners are:

Piccadilly
Paul
Demerson
dbfan1847
aleczandah

Please send me your names and addresses so we can get your goodies to you. The remainder of the prize winners were picked randomly from e-mail addresses supplied for the chat, and will be announced on here and notified personally shortly. For those of you that weren't lucky enough to win, there are still a handful of the 'I AM IMAN' limited book and CD bundles left to buy if you hurry.

Also, look out for transcripts of both the David and Iman chats very soon.

Important David And Iman Live Chat Information...

David and Iman at the launch of 'I AM IMAN' at
DKNY on Tuesday. Picture by Patrick McMullan.

...she will come to the show tonight...

In just over three hours time you will be able to join David Bowie and Iman for a chat here on BowieNet. If you weren't present at last night's practice chat, here are the details you need, to get you to the action tonight:

As you know, the chat begins at 8PM EST. Go to www.davidbowie.com/chat to login. This page will change shortly before the event to allow you to log in. This chat is NOT available via IRC, so you must log in using the link above.

David and Iman will be answering questions on their latest projects, future plans, and anything else that you manage to tempt them with. After the open chat, the couple will slide over to BowieNet ModChat for a more intimate, exclusive chat with just us Bowienetters. You can use this link to log into the ModChat.

'I AM IMAN' limited book and CD bundle...available NOW!

Meanwhile, before the chat takes place, Bowienetters have the chance to purchase an exclusive 'I AM IMAN' signed book and CD set, limited to only 100 sets! Iman has signed 100 copies of her astonishing book for this offer, and David has signed the same number of the exclusive promotional CDs that we mentioned last week. (11/10/01 NEWS: I AM IMAN...THE CD)

These sets are available to you at the insanely low price of $45...but hurry if you really want one, as the offer will be open to Joe Public when the chat begins. You can do your part to punish these types that have yet to sign to BowieNet by snapping them all up now!

Bowiephiles

Iman by David Bowie

Photograph king, watches you go

Family photographer : Jam : 11/13/01 In an interview with Associated Press, Iman chooses her favourite photographer. "Iman's picture has been taken thousands of times by the fashion industry's top photographers. But, she says, the best are those taken by her husband, British rocker David Bowie. "He captures the real me," Iman is quoted as saying. Among her favorites: a nude photo when she was pregnant with their daughter, Alexandria.

Beautiful : InStyle : Nov 2001 In an article titled: "Kiefer Sutherland - Man of Style", Kiefer is asked - Anyone you'd want to be like? "I've been in love with David Bowie from the time I was 12. I mean, I see a picture of him and it's like the line in the song "Mr. Jones" by Counting Crows: "I wish I was beautiful". I wish I could just for one day walk into a restaurant and try and look that good. (jam)

Basquiat : Guardian : 11/13/01 Five years after its release, Basquiat, showing on the UK pay channel "Film Four", still found its way on to the "Pick of the Day" lists at both The Guardian and The Independent this week. The Independent had this to say : "In this evocative film, Jeffrey Wright gives a strong performance in the title role, while David Bowie is equally impressive as Warhol."

Charisma : Sunday Times : 11/11/01 Dylan Jones, Editor of GQ magazine, whose admiration of db we have mentioned before, was having dinner with the restaurant reviewer of The Sunday Times, and he and his fellow guests were swapping anecdotes about meeting the famous. Dylan silenced the opposition (Clint Eastwood, Alfred Hitchcock et al) with this : ""Well, I was in a nightclub scene in The Hunger," said Dylan. "And, between takes, David Bowie asked me for a light." He delivered the last sentence with all the gravitas of a man announcing he has just found a cure for cancer."

I Am Iman : Mona Lisa (TV) : 11/11/01 Iman talks about her new book, in this extensive interview with German TV programme, ML. There are many interesting insights into the woman and her life. Among them, her reasons for choosing that arresting cover photograph. "After 25 years in the modelling business, there were an almost endless amount of photographs which show me as the magazine wanted to show me.... In my book I wanted another type of picture: no styled hair, no make-up - almost raw. The photo was taken as one of the last for the book. The picture is mysterious, but at the same time sharp - it shows me very clearly." (bia) ( translated)

(contributors : bianca, jamantyla, spaceface)

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Info On Tonight's Practice Chat And Giveaway

For all of you that are planning to attend tonight's chat and giveaway with the Ultrastar team, here are the full details:

- The chat will begin at 5PM EST. We will be testing our new chat system that will be used tomorrow night for the open chat.

- We will start in this new chat room. It is NOT avaliable via IRC, so you will have to login using this link.

- 2 incredible prizes direct from the Bowie vaults will be given out. The first is an OUTSIDE baseball cap. The second, is a Leather Tour Jacket from the Glass Spider Tour (ooohhh!). These prizes will be given out randomly

After giving the new chat technology a sound tire-kicking, we will move to the good old BowieNet ModChat for some more chances at prizes. You can use this link to login.

We hope to see you there!

Tori Cd Is Released After All

BowieNetter Carla Rhodes yesterday...
Oops no sorry, I think that's Tori!

Please trip them gently...

According to a record company spokesman, the Tori Amos version of 'After All' which appears on the b-side of her new single, 'Strange Little Girls', (10/08/01 NEWS: A TRIO OF BOWIE COVERS OUT NOW) has been re-scheduled for a November 26th release. This news comes despite the fact that an online music store is charging twenty five quid (approx. $38) for the CD, claiming it has been withdrawn!?

If you're interested in purchasing the track I suggest you hold onto your cash, at least until the 26th, to see if the record company prediction pans out.

Diamond Gods Cd Competition

Diamond Gods are poachers and they hide behind trees...

Those lovely folx over at Ncompass have generously donated five copies of the recently released 'Diamond Gods - Interpretations of Bowie'. The 14-track CD contains a mixture of hard-to-find previously released tracks, (Brix Smith, Nico and Blondie) mixed with new songs recorded exclusively for this compilation (The excellent Tim Bowness and Samuel Smiles version of 'I Can't Read', Iva Davies and Icehouse's 'Loving The Alien' and a scarily menacing techno version of 'The Laughing Gnome' by Buster Bloodvessel!).

Officially out last Monday, this is one of the better Bowie covers compilations released in recent years...and there have been quite a few. Here's the track-listing for 'Diamond Gods':

01. Iva Davies and Icehouse: 'Loving The Alien'
02. EN: 'Life On Mars?'
03. Brix Smith: 'Space Oddity'
04. Blondie: "Heroes" (Live)
05. Bellatrix: 'God Knows I'm Good'
06. Tacye: 'The Man Who Sold The World'
07. Tim Bowness and Samuel Smiles: 'I Can't Read'
08. Buster Bloodvessel: 'The Laughing Gnome'
09. The Aries Parallel: 'Panic In Detroit'
10. Hazel O'Connor: 'Rock 'n' Roll Suicide'
11. Dead Eye Dolls: 'Real Cool World'
12. Nico: "Heroes"
13. The Nine: 'Loving The Alien'
14. David Fisher: 'Memory Of A Free Festival'

One of the more interesting recording's made especially for this CD is by a woman who once cut David Bowie's hair. Her name is Hazel O'Connor, and the Bowie connection doesn't end with a haircut. Hazel's more famous recordings were produced by Tony Visconti, she used the artist Edward Bell to design one of her album sleeves (He designed 'Scary Monsters' and its associated single sleeves) and she released a Bowie cover in the Eighties.

The song she performs on 'Diamond Gods' is 'Rock 'n' Roll Suicide' accompanied only by harp and voice, and sounding like Marianne Faithfull, with a hint of Lulu, backed by The Swingle Singers! But what I want to know is the title of the aforementioned song she released as a 12" only bonus track back in the early Eighties? A clue is that I wouldn't exist without this particular song. There, I've gone and made it far too easy.

Answers by this time next week from a BowieNet e-mail account only (as always) to MrTotalBlamBlam@AOL.Com with a subject line of "Hazel's Bowie cover". We'll announce the winner on the Eighth Day...rather contrived pun definitely intended. };-)

While we're on the subject of odd women singing Bowie songs...

Practice Chat And Give-away Tomorrow Night!

Now you're ready for the real McCoy...

Tomorrow evening at 5:00pm EST, we will be conducting a warm-up chat for Thursday's event with David and Iman. "Why, oh why, a warm-up?", you may ask...well, mainly to test out some new chat technology to make sure everything runs smoothly on the night, but also as an excuse to dish out some ultra-collectible Bowie goodies from deep within the Bowie vaults...and of course we would like you all to be part of the testing by giving us your feedback afterwards.

Some of the incredible prizes we'll be dishing out include: A leather tour jacket, old backstage passes, t-shirts and much, much more. There will be a link to the chat in tomorrow's news...you lucky, lucky, people you!

As Promised On The Mbs...a New Journal!

'Little Drummer Boy' - David bashing out dem crazy rydims!

I like the beat of your drum...

So what did Pete Townshend make of the new album when first he heard it? Go here to find out, and to view another bunch of marvellous pictures taken by Tony Visconti.

I Am Iman...the Cd

Front and back of 'I AM IMAN' promotional CD.

These are silver wings, These are golden eyes...

I've received quite a few e-mails enquiring after the 'I AM IMAN' promotional CD mentioned in the news a few days ago. (11/07/01 NEWS: DAVID AND IMAN CHAT AND ULTRA RARE GIVE-AWAY) The five-track, twenty seven minute CD was compiled by David as a promotional device to be sent out with review copies of Iman's book. The tracks, with the albums the recordings originally appeared on, are listed below:

The Wedding
(Black Tie, White Noise)

Wild Is The Wind
(Station To Station)

Loving The Alien
(Tonight)

As The World Falls Down
(Labyrinth)

Abdulmajid
("Heroes" - Bonus track on Ryko re-issue)

I don't have to tell you how valuable such a limited pressing as this will quickly become, and remember this is just one of the items you could win in next Thursday's chat with David and Iman. Being a BowieNet employee, I'm not allowed to enter these give-away things. But, If there's somebody out there that wants to win one for me as a Christmas present..... };-)

Final Track-list For Cfnyc Cd

New York's a go-go and everything sounds right...

A final running order and sleeve artwork for the 'Concert for New York City' CD have been released. Scheduled for a November 27th release on Sony/Columbia, the thirty two-track double CD pretty well follows the running order of the original show, with some omissions, and as we mentioned last month both of David's songs are included...and in fact, they kick off the CD:

Disc One:
01. America - David Bowie
02. "Heroes" - David Bowie
03. Livin' On A Prayer - Bon Jovi
04. Wanted Dead Or Alive - Bon Jovi
05. It's My Life - Bon Jovi
06. Izzo (H.O.V.A.) - Jay Z
07. Iris - The Goo Goo Dolls
08. Miami 2017 - Billy Joel
09. New York State Of Mind - Billy Joel
10. Emotion - Destiny's Child
11. Gospel Medley - Destiny's Child
12. I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man - Eric Clapton
13. Operaman - Adam Sandler
14. Quit Playing Games With My Heart - Backstreet Boys
15. Come To My Window - Melissa Etheridge
16. Born To Run - Melissa Etheridge

Disc Two:
01. Who Are You - The Who
02. Baba O'Reilly - The Who
03. Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
04. Salt Of The Earth - Mick Jagger featuring Keith Richards
05. Miss You - Mick Jagger featuring Keith Richards
06. With A Little Help From My Friends - Macy Gray
07. Fire and Rain - James Taylor
08. Up On The Roof - James Taylor
09. Peaceful World - John Mellencamp
10. Pink Houses - John Mellencamp (featuring Kid Rock)
11. Superman (It's Not Easy) - Five For Fighting
12. Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters - Elton John
13. I'm Down - Paul McCartney
14. Yesterday - Paul McCartney
15. Let It Be - Paul McCartney
16. Freedom (reprise) - Paul McCartney

Bowie Track On Air Guitar Compilation

"Hair guitar? Count me in!" - David Bowie performs 'Rebel Rebel'.

You love bands when they're playing hard...

Brian May of Queen is the man behind a new compilation out on Virgin this week, entitled: 'The Best Air Guitar Album in the World...Ever!' The Queen axeman was more than qualified to compile this double CD of classic rock anthems...and he has the hair to boot! One of the 41 songs on the album is the full length album version of David Bowie's 1974 Glampunk prototype, 'Rebel Rebel'.

Other tracks range from old standard's we all know and love (in a post-modern, ironic sort of way in some cases obviously) such as 'Voodo Chile', 'My Generation', 'Paranoid', '20th Century Boy', 'Freebird', 'Smoke On The Water' (the riff to which even Rednik has mastered!), 'Wild Thing' and 'You Really Got Me'...through the sublime 'Ace Of Spades' and the wigged-out insanity of 'Wipe Out'...to relative new boys such as Blur, Foo Fighters, Robbie Williams, Wheatus, and Weezer.

For those of you that can't quite work out the what the flash in the top left of the CD cover below says, it is: "Free Air Guitar Inside!"...a double CD and a free air guitar for a mere fifteen quid. Now that's what I call a bargain.

You Asked For It...you Got It!

Front and back of the very first official BowieNet T-shirt.

You've got what you wanted...

It was an almost impossible choice to make, but the BowieNet community has voted, and we have a result. The brilliant Rex Ray gave us five stunning designs to deliberate over, and despite the fact that most of us wanted the whole set...the beauty above is the very first official BowieNet T-shirt*.

Having said that, it seems you didn't deliberate too long. The winning design collected almost as many votes as the rest of the shirts put together. The popular choice is on its way to the printer and will be available in the BowieNet store as soon as we get it back. Yum, yum...can't wait.

*I haven't forgotten the Roseland T-shirt...as nice as it was, that was a memento of a single event. But this new shirt celebrates nothing but DavidBowie.com and the BowieNet Community. One can feel comfortable wearing this garment for any occasion at any time. };-)

Bowiephiles

And the stars look very different today

Space Oddity : Washington Post : 10/29/01 The re-release, after 25 years in the wilderness, of "Innocence and Despair : The Langley Schools Music Project", an album of cover songs by kids from rural British Columbia, was inspired by "the Langley kids' 1976 take on David Bowie's "Space Oddity." ..... The backing music was genuinely spooky, with rhythm provided by the quavering, tremolo-enhanced downstroke of an electric guitar, and the "liftoff" noise supplied by running a bottle down the neck of a steel guitar. And the voices: The kids gave Bowie's account of a doomed astronaut an eerie dissonance." "The backing arrangement is astounding", Bowie said in a statement. "Coupled with the earnest if lugubrious vocal performance you have a piece of art that I couldn't have conceived of, even with half of Colombia's finest export products in me." You can listen online, here.

The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell : Chigaco Film Festival : Oct 2001 "The 37th Chicago International Film Festival awarded the Gold Hugo for Best Feature film to Catherine Breillat?s FAT GIRL for its " fearless and uncompromising examination of sexual awakening."" The soundtrack features "The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell".

Heroes : Q : Nov 2001 The latest Q magazine subscription special offer includes a copy of a double CD : "Anthems". If you subscribe for six months, you receive the CD which includes "Heroes" as the first track on CD 2.

Heroes : Variety : 10/25/01 At a recent gig at the Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, Travis were joined by the opening act, Remy Zero, for a cover of "Heroes". Travis's love of Bowie is becoming increasingly well known, as Blammo told us last week. (11/02/01 NEWS: TRAVIS DO 'DUDES' LATER ON...ON 'LATER').

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David And Iman Chat And Ultra Rare Give-away

Detail taken from 'I AM IMAN' of David and Iman - Illustration by Zach Gold.

Be with my baby, then, We'll spend some time together...

We're posting this information again just in case you missed it yesterday but mainly because it's jolly exciting stuff!

In celebration of the release of 'I AM IMAN', David and Iman will be hosting a LIVE CHAT EVENT next week here on davidbowie.com.

The chat will be open to the public and will take place on Thursday November 15th at 8:00PM EST. However, after the public chat, the couple will be joining us BowieNetters in the BowieNet Modchat for a more intimate gathering.

During the chat you will have the chance to win 1 of 20 autographed promotional CD's and 1 of 10 autographed copies of 'I AM IMAN'. The 'I AM IMAN' promotional CD is a limited edition compilation, unavailable in stores, containing five tracks hand picked by David himself.

For ALL the details on the book and CD give-away, and how to enter, click here. For more information on the chat event, click here.

Please be sure to use your davidbowie.com email address when registering for the give-away, so as to identify yourself as a current BowieNet member.

David And Iman Chat And Ultra Rare Give-away

Detail taken from 'I AM IMAN' of David and Iman - Illustration by Zach Gold.

Be with my baby, then, We'll spend some time together...

We're posting this information again just in case you missed it yesterday but mainly because it's jolly exciting stuff!

In celebration of the release of 'I AM IMAN', David and Iman will be hosting a LIVE CHAT EVENT next week here on davidbowie.com.

The chat will be open to the public and will take place on Thursday November 15th at 8:00PM EST. However, after the public chat, the couple will be joining us BowieNetters in the BowieNet Modchat for a more intimate gathering.

During the chat you will have the chance to win 1 of 20 autographed promotional CD's and 1 of 10 autographed copies of 'I AM IMAN'. The 'I AM IMAN' promotional CD is a limited edition compilation, unavailable in stores, containing five tracks hand picked by David himself.

For ALL the details on the book and CD give-away, and how to enter, click here. For more information on the chat event, click here.

Please be sure to use your davidbowie.com email address when registering for the give-away, so as to identify yourself as a current BowieNet member.

K R Buxey Last Artist To Enter The Tardis

A couple of stills from 'f***ed (2000)' by k r buxey

You're a sex receiver...

k r buxey is the sixth and final artist in the BowieArt sponsored Window Pain Project. Taking over from Craig Fisher, buxey's installation went live yesterday and will be on show until November 30th.buxey is exhibiting a continuous dual monitor video work called 'f***ed (2000)', (the asterisks are ours). Here's a bit from the press release regarding the work:

"By the time buxey graduated from Goldsmiths this year her video and photographic work had further pushed the issues raised in earlier pieces that dealt with questions of desire and representation. The work that can be seen in the window on Turnmill Street contemplates notions of beauty, abjection and excess. Re-contextualising contemporary narratives from pornographic films the artist calls into question the dynamics of power and subjection. The artist explores pornography as a potentially meaningful discourse of freedom and pleasure, whilst simultaneously acknowledging it as a site for sado-masochistic exchange.

Beatific and grotesque, entertaining and disturbing, the artist's work explicitly communicates a number of challenging questions, which encourages the viewer to ask questions of themselves and their own relationship to the work as well as the power politics at play within the genre of films that the artist chooses to dissect. In f***ed buxey forces the viewer to acknowledge their part as voyeur while at the same time problematising this relationship by providing incredibly beautiful and serene images that have been appropriated from existing pornographic footage.

k r buxey?s work was shown as part of new contemporaries '99 and was seen early this year as part of EAST 2001."

The Window Pain Project is at the Tardis Studios window space situated at 52-56 Turnmill Street, London, EC1.

Bowieart.com is an art website that utilises the net to provide information and exposure to talented artists at the most important time in their careers.

Speaking of BowieArt...

View Rca Secret 2001 At Bowieart

It's just a thirty five pound secret...

This year will be the first time ever that the RCA SECRET exhibition will be available to view online. Saving time and energy for those of you that travel down especially for the event and want to queue overnight when the postcards finally go on sale on Thursday 29th November 2001.

Up to 2,000 cards will be on show and available for sale, all at just £35 each. The proceeds go to the RCA Fine Art Student Fund. For the second year running, the exhibition is sponsored by Bowieart.com, who will also be displaying all the postcards online from 21st November, three of which you can see in the animation below.

Although previous years have seen contributions from the like of David Bowie, Damien Hirst, Peter Doig, Tracey Emin, David Hockney, Terry Frost, Nick Park, Cornelia Parker and Christo, the identity of the contributors is never known until the sale is over.

David Bowie has contributed for the last couple of years, but that doesn't necessarily mean he will this year...but then again it doesn't mean he won't either! };-)

Bowie Contributes To New Lou Reed Album

"Try and look a little more po-faced Lou...Geddit?...POE-faced?
Oh, I really don't know why I bother sometimes. I really don't!"

Where there's trouble there's POEtry...

Lou Reed has been busy in New York putting the finishing touches to 'POEtry', a two-CD soundtrack to his musical theatre collaboration with Robert Wilson. The project is based on the work of Edgar Allen Poe and while Willem Dafoe recites most of Wilson's text, Reed has contributed 13 new songs.

One of those songs is "a snappy little ditty called Hopfrog" (presumably based on the Poe short story 'Hop-Frog or The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs') for which David has supplied the lead vocal. We will post more details regarding the release date etc., as we get them.

Sunday Times: David Defines Electronica

"What was that highly-influential collaborative stuff we worked on together David?"
"Do you mean the non-linear Gothic Drama hyper-cycle, or that other stuff Brian?"

The gift of sound and vision

The UK Sunday Times, Culture section, began a new series of articles yesterday, intended as "A Guide To Planet Pop", and entitled "From Elvis to Eminem, we trace the key moments that defined the sounds of 2001". Pink Floyd are mentioned in connection with Prog Rock, and McLaren, The New York Dolls, and The Sex Pistols with Punk. David's decision to move to Berlin and the events leading up to the release of Low, are credited as the "Moment" for Electronica.

"This might be a waste of an entire month of your life. Are you willing to come to Paris and experiment with Eno and me?" This was the unpromising invitation that David Bowie gave to the record producer Tony Visconti in August 1976. Bowie couldn't have been more wrong. In a recent NME poll, Bowie was voted the most influential artist of all time, and Low, the album that Bowie recorded in that Paris session with Visconti, is his most influential work"...... "Visconti took things even further by acquiring a harmoniser - a then new device invented to alter the pitch of musical notes - and fed the drums through it to make a dark, urban, claustrophobic sound that nobody had heard before."

The second section devoted to each genre, concerns the "Momentum" which built up after the "Moment".

"In developing a new European pop that lived and breathed without reference to the American Blues tradition, Bowie created a template for mid-1990's Brit-pop bands such as Blur and Pulp..... The actual sound of Low's synths and drums led directly to synth-pop bands such as Human League, Depeche Mode and Ultravox..... and in the next decade, to popular techno outfits such as the Prodigy, whose No1 hit Firestarter recalls Bowie's work during this period.... Most of all, processing drums is now a given in all forms of popular music and can be heard everywhere."

The rest of this article is available online, here.

Image and caption supplied by Blammo.

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Iman Media Blitz Continues

In the street Iman shouts out loud...

It seems the planet has gone 'I AM IMAN' berserk right now. The UK version of this week's The Big Issue magazine has Iman on the front cover plus a three-page feature outlined thus:

"Somalian supermodel IMAN crossed the barbed-wire border of her homeland to strut the world's catwalks. But she says the fashion industry is racist, shallow and harmful."

The Big Issue is a magazine that gives homeless people the chance to make an income, and carries the slogan "Coming up from the streets".

Other recent features include pieces in The Washington Post, Your Life Magazine, Allure Magazine and a front cover with a six-page spread in Woman's Journal, all of which can be viewed at Iman's site.

Watch out for an exciting announcement regarding David and Iman very soon.