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Jan 10, 2016 · David Bowie covered My Death, Sorrow, All the Young Dudes, China Girl and other songs. David Bowie originally did My Death, Sorrow, All the Young Dudes, China Girl and other songs. David Bowie wrote Space Oddity, Rebel Rebel and Abdulmajid.
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- Beck – ‘Sound and Vision’
- Nine Inch Nails – ‘I’m Afraid of Americans’
- Nirvana – ‘Man Who Sold The World’
- Oasis – ‘Heroes’
- The White Stripes – ‘Moonage Daydream’
- Depeche Mode – ‘Heroes’
- The Smashing Pumpkins – ‘Space Oddity’
- Bauhaus – ‘Ziggy Stardust’
- Marilyn Manson – ‘Golden Years’
- The Cure – ‘Young Americans’
“Everybody dizzy yet? There’s some sick bags under your chairs if you need it,” Beck told an intimate crowd of 280 people who were sitting on cushions on the floor as the musician conducted at 157-piece orchestra around his slowly rotating stage. Beck, stood in the middle with a dazzling jacket and black fedora, span in one direction his circular s...
Nine Inch Nails, more specifically Trent Reznor, has never been shy to admit his admiration for David Bowie and his music. “Scary Monsters was the first one I related to. Then I went backwards and discovered the Berlin trilogy, which was full-impact,” Reznor once told Rolling Stone in a reflective op-ep penned just weeks after Bowie‘s death. “I rea...
The vocal power of Kurt Cobain is too often overlooked. While his lyricism and attitude are what put him on teenagers’ bedroom walls across the globe in the early nineties as the face of grunge, his vocal performance is still a powerhouse piece of the puzzle. It’s a similarity he shared with Bowie, who was also dismissed as a singer. No better is t...
Manchester’s angriest band, Oasis, have never been afraid to let people know their opnions—if it’s good or bad. Here though, Liam and Noel Gallagher finally have something they agree on and that is their mutual love for David Bowie. The perfect cover is a difficult cocktail to get right. Much like making a cocktail, the perfect recipe is all to do ...
Next up it is The White Stripes and their early take on David Bowie’s powerhouse track ‘Moonage Daydream’. When you think back to some of David Bowie’s best songs, it’s very hard to look too far past his illustrious and seminal record The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars. It’s an LP that introduced the worldto Bowie’s perso...
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of its release, Depeche Mode released an official cover of David Bowie’s epic, and truly remarkable, track ‘Heroes’. The song has been a live favourite of Depeche Mode’s for a while as they’ve toured countless arenas across the globe. Dave Gahan and the rest of the band also released some official visuals in a mo...
If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a thousand times; the key to a great cover version is all about walking the delicate balance between paying homage to the original while adding your own special influence to the song. Smashing Pumpkins were clearly listening to us back in 2013 when they covered David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’. Bowie’s original trac...
Quite rightly given the accolades as the inventors of goth, Bauhaus wasn’t all about being black in heart and fashion. No, they had a little bit of glam to their palette and their 1982 cover of David Bowie’s iconic song ‘Ziggy Stardust‘ shows they had all the glittered swagger of the man himself. David Bowie is a man whose songs have been covered n...
Up next it is Marilyn Manson and his rendition of ‘Golden Years’, a track which would later feature on the Dead Man on Campussoundtrack. Manson, like all the names on this list, has been heavily influenced by Bowie’s creative output. Shortly after the Starman passed away, Manson felt compelled to show his love for the musician and penned a poetic e...
Last but by no means least, we have The Cure. Robert Smith, the iconic frontman of post-punk icons The Cure, has never been shy to discuss his admiration for the great David Bowie. Bowie, whose ever-developing career and repeated character changes propelled him to the top of popular music, had impacted Smith’s vision of music and helped formulate h...
- Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World. The classic, as recorded by the band for their MTV Unplugged show in November 1993. Kurt Cobain's performance drew out the troubled, eerie melancholy of the song and the track was played endlessly in the days after the Nirvana frontman's death in April 1994.
- Biffy Clyro - Modern Love. Recorded for US radio DJ Howard Stern, this is a typically complex arrangement of the Let's Dance opener from the Scottish rock trio.
- Beck - Sound And Vision. In 2013, Beck Hansen developed this disorientating cover of the track from 1977's Low in association with a 157-piece orchestra that sat on a revolving stage at the 20th Century Fox studios in Los Angeles.
- Foo Fighters - Under Pressure. The late, great Taylor Hawkins steps out from the drum stool to perform the Queen and David Bowie classic team-up. This footage captures the Foos' performance at the Super Saturday Night show in 2019, with none other than Roger Taylor himself on drums.
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Jun 23, 2021 · On the tour edition of 2003 album Reality, Bowie gave his fans a very special cover of The Kinks song ‘Waterloo Sunset’. Adding his iconic vocal to an already iconic song, Bowie makes the 1967 hit his own.
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The dystopian glam impact of David Bowie's "Diamond Dogs" on artists from Lady Gaga to St. Vincent
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Sep 23, 2022 · A look back at 29 covers of David Bowie's classic 'Heroes,' which was originally released as a single on Sept. 23, 1977.
- Corey Irwin
Dec 25, 2023 · Since then, of course, Heroes has become the definitive Bowie song, covered by many an artist and used as the backdrop to everything from money-raising charity events to the appearance of the GB Olympic team. Covering such an iconic song is a daunting task. What can you add, if anything?
Jan 8, 2022 · In honour of the Starman’s birthday, here are 10 covers of David Bowie songs by the likes of Nine Inch Nails, My Chemical Romance and Motörhead… January 8, 2022. Words: Mörat. Photo: Jimmy...
