David Bowie was already four years and four albums into his career when he issued Hunky Dory, the first record to help secure his legend. He had been inching closer to this moment with each release, ...
In the heat of the summer of 1976, keen drama teacher Vivienne fights sweltering heat and general teenage apathy to put on an end of year music version of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
The additional discs are filled out with Bowie’s entire John Peel session from June 1971 — only a handful of the recordings previously appeared on the Bowie at the Beeb comp — plus additional ...
“‘Hunky Dory’ gave me a fabulous groundswell,” Bowie once said. “I guess it provided me, for the first time in my life, with an actual audience. I mean, people actually coming up to me and saying, ...
Several songs that loom large in the legend of David Bowie appear on his 1971 album Hunky Dory. In fact, if you just looked at the track list you might assume it was a smash album, when it actually ...
Minnie Driver plays a teacher struggling to shepherd her students through a pop-scored production of "The Tempest" in "Hunky Dory." In a Welsh suburb in the sweltering early summer of 1976, Vivienne ...