
Two rock and roll icons, one very much alive and one very much dead, have birthdays tomorrow January 8th. David Bowie , the ever-changing avante garde chameleon of rock, turns 64 years old. The southern truck driver turned film actor Elvis Presley would have turned 76 years old tomorrow had he not ingested codeine, Valium, morphine, and Demorol, culminating in his 1977 death. To help celebrate their birthdays, I've scoured the rock video archives to find these somewhat rare clips of each man singing. Elvis sings "I got a [...]

David Bowie: Rebel Rebel David Bowie: Diamond Dogs David Bowie: Rebel Rebel David Bowie: 1984
It was almost a year ago that I articulated a desire to gradually sift through the mountainous stacks of vintage Bowie footage on YouTube in order to comprehensively tour his every creative spasm and identity tweak. As this is the first I've mentioned it since, I'm sure you're all now deeply stunned by the depth of my master plan and the patience its taken to execute it just so. *cough* The material on 1974's Diamond Dogs as originally conceived would have been both a more cohesive and also more risky. Following the so so [...]