Tag: david-bowie

• David Bowie: The ‘Heathen’ Interview

  Background: The following interview was conducted on October 23, 2001, for an album preview that named David Bowie’s Heathen one of 2002’s most anticipated releases. The phone interview left me with considerably more content than the brief assignment required, but since the discussion revolved around probes concerning the sound of a then-unheard album the world would soon hear, the…

• Mick Ronson: Guitar God

  Background: Mick Ronson remains in the topper-most of my all-time favorite guitarists and arrangers. I’ll save the remaining contenders for another post. This was written as a short appreciation for a guitar monthly. About: The most enduring image of Mick Ronson has little to do with technique—at least not guitar technique. As David Bowie’s musical…