David Bowie passed away from an 18-month battle with cancer on January 10, 2016 — two days after his 69th birthday and the release of his newest studio album, Blackstar. He kept his illness a closely-guarded secret so his death was met with shock, especially since he'd just released his new project with a music video to go with it. As it turned out, his dying days artistically were carefully planned out and when studied in the illumination of his passing, discovered to be a statement/commentary on his own mortality. Once a pioneering multi-media genius, always a pioneering multi-media genius. Here on the S&G Podcast, in this two-parted theme we explore the music that influenced Bowie at times of his career in part 1.
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The Super Bowl Halftime show is big, expensive and loud. But it hasn't always been. Travel through the years of music from Super Bowl Halftime shows.
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This week, Sound and Groove returns for Part Two of 'The Numbers Game'. Evan takes songs that include numbers in the title or as a theme of the song itself. Artists like Elton John, Johnny Burnette, and The Black Keys get the treatment.
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Sound and Groove, Part one of 'The Numbers Game'. Evan takes songs that include numbers in the title or as a theme of the song itself. Artists like Dire Straits, The Tragically Hip and Howlin Wolf get the treatment.
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In Part II, Evan continues the Name Linking Game. He takes an artist and gives you someone whose first name starts with the other's last name. It's like six degrees of separation from Sly and the Family Stone all the way to The Buckinghams.
Evan takes an artist and gives you someone whose first name starts with the other's last name. Confused yet? It's like six degrees of separation. Pick an artist like Billy Joel in Part One and then follow it up with Joel Plaskett next episode two.
Recorded earlier this summer, this is the second of a two-part series titled Double Trouble covering artists like Roy Orbison, John Lee Hooker, Elvis Costello, and Randy Newman who sang different songs but with the same song title.
What happens when a song title is used multiple times but each time the song is different? In the first of two parts, Evan explores Double Trouble where song titles are duplicated but the songs change.
