Rock On! Wednesday, 2 October 2024 – David Bowie, Mott the Hoople, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Queen & Supertramp

Psychedelic, heavy, prog and more innovating sounds spanning the late 60s and the early 70s – Wednesday April 17th. Dan’s pick of the week: David Bowie (The Man Who Sold the World), Mott the Hoople (All the Young Dudes), Roxy Music (Stranded), Brian Eno (Here Come the Warm Jets), Queen (Queen II) & Supertramp (Crime of the Century).

David Robert Jones, beter bekend onder zijn artiestennaam David Bowie, (1947 – 2016) was een Brits zanger, songwriter, muziekproducent en acteur. Hij wordt beschouwd als een van de invloedrijkste rockmuzikanten vanaf de jaren zestig tot heden.

Sputnik Music review: “The Man Who Sold The World was Bowie’s first album with the nucleus of what would become the Spiders From Mars, the band who would be famous due to his future fifth studio album The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, released in 1972. The Man Who Sold The World has been claimed that this was the album that marked the beginning of the glam rock. Hard rocking and heavy metal hybrid, The Man Who Sold The World was Bowie’s third studio album, although considered the second work of his classic period.

On The Man Who Sold The World, Bowie’s music offers an experience that is as intriguing as it’s chilling, but only to the listener sufficiently together to withstand its schizophrenia. On this album, Bowie deals with oblique and fragmented images that are almost impenetrable separately but which convey with effectiveness an ironic and bitter sense of the world when considered together. His unhappy relationship with the world is traced to his inability to perceive it sanely. In reality, “The Man Who Sold The World” came before he was known for anything other than Space Oddity. Unfortunately, this album wouldn’t be his breakout album upon its release. It wasn’t especially a commercial or critical successful work.”

Wednesday, 18 september 2024 12:00 noon CET Brussels – 11 a.m. GMT London. Repeated: 16:00 & 20:00 hrs CET Brussels, 3 p.m. & 7 p.m. GMT London
Ends: 12 midnight CET Brussels, 11 p.m. GMT London.