Definitely had some in his NYC apartments, they feature in photos taken there.

he was super modest about his limited instrumental ability, which is charming as heck.

“I play what is politely called ‘composer’s piano,’ which means I know enough chords to be able to find my way around a song but not enough to sit down on stage, like Elton John, for instance, who’s a wizard pianist. I’ll have a go at anything and get a screech or an oink out of it, and then think, Well, that’s kind of nice, play it three times and it’ll sound like an arrangement.”

Boy, ain't that the truth: " play it three times and it’ll sound like an arrangement.” Man, I miss having that guy on the planet. Even when I didn't like what he was doing, it was interesting seeing where he was at and what he was reading/watching. What great taste.

Who doesn't love the man who wrote, "I'm Afraid of Americans."

This was from a Facebook post on the British And Irish TV And Film page.

The man who read the world: David Bowie’s son launches an online book club in his honour. Something not well known about Bowie: he was an avid reader, sometimes finishing a book in a single day. Rock star David Bowie was “a beast of a reader,” according to his son, Duncan Jones; so Jones decided to start an online book club to honour his literature-loving dad. The official Instagram account of the late rock star dubbed it the ‘Bowie Book Club’. David Bowie’s literary tastes were wide-ranging; including classics such as Gustave Flaubert’s ‘Madame Bovary’ and ‘The Iliad’ by Homer; novels s such as A ‘Clockwork Orange’ by Anthony Burgess and ‘Infants of the Spring’ by Wallace Thurman; together with a wide variety of nonfiction works: history, biography, art, architecture and more….. even the Beano!

Three years before he died, David Bowie made a list of the one hundred books that had transformed his life – a list that formed something akin to an autobiography. It’s telling that among Bowie’s final public statements was that this list of his Top 100 books was offered as part of the David Bowie Is museum exhibit. As Bowie has apparently left no memoir behind, the closest that he ventured to autobiography is this list of books. Some he chose because he wanted his fans to read them, but many selections have a deeper resonance in his work, in that they fuelled his creativity and shaped who he was.

Here's his list of books.

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/01/11/david-bowies-top-100-books

..."Take some big melodic risks so that if you make a mistake people will think you meant to do it."
Same idea. One a reaction, the other a strategy!

online. Funny and very talented (he's a filmmaker).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Jones

And Duncan is a very doting father - as David was.

This video was recorded on 9/11/1977, for Bing Crosby's Christmas show. Which Bing didn't live to see. He passed away a month and three days later - 10/14/1977.

Which was the same day Bowie's album Heroes was released - though the single that gave its title to the album had been released on September 23.

The day after the album was released - the day after Bing's death - David was in the Netherlands, recording an appearance for the Dutch series TopPop. I realized looking at the video with Bing - how David looked there - that it had to have been close to that Dutch TV appearance, and I found out when I checked that it was.

That second song isn't from Heroes, but from the previous album, Low.


Twenty-four years after that appearance with Bing was filmed, on the date we'll always associate with 9/11, David was once again working with the producer of those albums, Tony Visconti. They were at Allaire studios in the Catskills, working on songs for what became Heathen, Bowie's 23rd studio album.

Tony wrote in his autobiography:




I've wandered away from the Christmas theme here...but I didn't realize till I saw the Wikipedia article on Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy this morning just what day it had been recorded.

Peace On Earth had been written especially for that Christmas show, and 9/11/1977 was probably the first time it was recorded.

Peace on Earth, can it be?
Years from now, perhaps we'll see.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1034135347

He was very well suited for that part, and did a wonderful job.

interested in the lead up to Hitler that book helps you fully understand the complex political landscape that Germany was in the 1920's and early '30's this book should be read at least once.

https://bsky.app/profile/manmademoon.bsky.social/post/3le5fumd7p22m


https://bsky.app/profile/manmademoon.bsky.social/post/3le5g5rq4z22m

This sent chills through me.
Merry Christmas to you and thank you for posting.

The Yanaha grand in his Central Park apartment is one of the selling points for the property.
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/nyc-apartment-featuring-david-bowies-piano-market-65/story?id=46418785

If you watched the video, the reason for his visit to Bing's house was use of his piano.

Twice on this thread have people taken my OP title seriously.

Ok, it's a bit. I've seen it many times before; didn't bother to watch it again. It's been around for 47 years.
You didn't post this in The Loubge. It's in GD. Why shouldn't I take your title as a statement of fact?

I used to count on the intelligence of others - I guess I can't take that for granted.