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poliphilo My engagement with pop music ran from approximately 1967 to 1973. After that point those guys were no longer singing for me. I do however recognise David Bowie as a significant cultural figure...
My main association with the name Bowie is this guy...
I'm guessing David Jones had the same figure in mind when he was casting around for a stage name. The Alamo was a big deal for kids of his and my generation- and Richard Widmark was so cool in it.
I posted a picture of the real Jim Bowie yesterday. Richard Widmark looked nothing like him, but then John Wayne didn't look a bit like the real Davy Crockett either...
The real Jim Bowie was a guy about whom tall stories were being told in his own lifetime. According to witnesses he wasn't the source of them. "A humble, modest man" said one of his friends. He was also a slaver and, reckoned in today's money, died a millionaire. He was brave, coarse, ambitious and a killer.
Richard Widmark, on the other hand, for all that he mostly played toughies, was a gentle person who hated violence...
My main association with the name Bowie is this guy...
I'm guessing David Jones had the same figure in mind when he was casting around for a stage name. The Alamo was a big deal for kids of his and my generation- and Richard Widmark was so cool in it.
I posted a picture of the real Jim Bowie yesterday. Richard Widmark looked nothing like him, but then John Wayne didn't look a bit like the real Davy Crockett either...
The real Jim Bowie was a guy about whom tall stories were being told in his own lifetime. According to witnesses he wasn't the source of them. "A humble, modest man" said one of his friends. He was also a slaver and, reckoned in today's money, died a millionaire. He was brave, coarse, ambitious and a killer.
Richard Widmark, on the other hand, for all that he mostly played toughies, was a gentle person who hated violence...
