{"id":390,"date":"2009-04-10T16:48:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T16:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/?p=390"},"modified":"2009-04-10T16:48:40","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T16:48:40","slug":"drunk-bowie-sings-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/drunk-bowie-sings-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Drunk Bowie Sings Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ye2XfPz7CDo&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ye2XfPz7CDo&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Surely I shouldn&#8217;t be watching this right now, since David Bowie is a PRS registered UK artist and YouTube and PRS are in dispute and all the music is blocked. Not this though, thanks to @lagowski for the steer. Mind you, Bowie has advocated and pioneered the use of music on the internet, and like Prince, and a select band of enlightened &#8220;old style&#8221; artists has seen<strong> the value of digital music sharing: an essential route to new fans<\/strong>, along with radio, tv and playing live. If they have never heard you, they can&#8217;t like you. For artists with something to say, it&#8217;s also a direct channel to the people they love the most &#8211; their fans. Do not underestimate the power of disintermediated uncensored mass communication.<\/p>\n<p>This is a pretty rousing live version of the classic Bowie song, his rock anthem <em>par excellence<\/em>, but you can hear the march of a thousand gigs in the performance. Bowie uses his mature voice in a unique way though, what energy. I&#8217;m a big fan of Bowie&#8217;s &#8220;trilogy&#8221; songwriting period: Low, Heroes, and Lodger.<\/p>\n<p>The first single I ever bought (aged ten) was <em>Space Oddity<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\/end fandom.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home\/?status=Drunk+Bowie+Sings+Heroes+http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/?p=390\" title=\"Tweet this\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/tt-twitter-micro3.png\" alt=\"Post to Twitter\" \/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home\/?status=Drunk+Bowie+Sings+Heroes+http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/?p=390\" title=\"Tweet this\">Tweet this<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/drunk-bowie-sings-heroes\/&amp;t=Drunk+Bowie+Sings+Heroes\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/tt-facebook-micro3.png\" alt=\"Post to Facebook\" \/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/drunk-bowie-sings-heroes\/&amp;t=Drunk+Bowie+Sings+Heroes\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surely I shouldn&#8217;t be watching this right now, since David Bowie is a PRS registered UK artist and YouTube and PRS are in dispute and all the music is blocked. Not this though, thanks to @lagowski for the steer. Mind you, Bowie has advocated and pioneered the use of music on the internet, and like &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[39,53,78],"class_list":{"0":"post-390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-rock","7":"tag-bowie","8":"tag-drunk","9":"tag-heroes","11":"without-featured-image"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funk.co.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}