David Bowie sings the Joy Division classic "Love Will Tear Us Apart"

Apparently - "A chance meeting in 1983 had David Bowie, Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook chatting away over beers in the Kings Arms in Salford. "...So we were all there just having a laugh and we joked that he should come n have a jam with us, then next minute - well, it was the next day actually, but i didn't expect he'd definitely come by - and we were in the practice rooms and we were playing Love Will Tear Us Apart and i was like, f%$K we're playing Love Will Tear Us Apart with David Bowie singing, this is crazy. We never released it - Bowie took a recording of it, and just layered some more vocals on for fun, sent it back to me..." - Bernard Sumner. N.B. I do not own the rights to this song - no copyright infringement"

Wow, simply incredible...  Actually literally 'incredible' as this is a fake, a hoax, but a good one!

Suffragette City - David Bowie

Wham bam thank you David...

David Bowie R. I. P

It was David Bowie's 69th birthday on Friday and I almost posted a track of his to celebrate. But which one? There were too many great songs. So rather than choose one or two from dozens, I didn't post anything.

Today I wake to the need that one of, if not the, greatest pop and rock artistes of my lifetime has passed away, another victim of cancer. What a loss...

Here's Heroes... Because he was one to millions.

Oh my ears!

If you thought that Bing Crosby & David Bowie's Yuletide duet on "Little Drummer Boy" was the nadir of music, you will be shocked to hear that anoher duet version of the same song has upped the ante.

Justin Bieber Featuring Busta Rhymes have managed to produce a track that makes Bing & Bowie's version seem almost listenable.

I did say 'almost'.

Two versions of a lovely song - which do you prefer?

The Beatles - 'Across the Universe'



David Bowie - 'Across the Universe'


I think I'd plump for the Beatles original version; you?