Mate you both spoke through the whole performance lol.... do it again

David also did "Fame" on the same show. David was married to Iman (from Somalia) and they have a daughter.

@pownbnull

3 жыл бұрын

Interestingly David Bowie was always into black women.. he even had a relationship with a black singer named Ava Cherry(?) while he was married to his wife Angie

The irony of his Soul Train performance is that both songs were funk rock songs instead of soul. For Bowie at his most soulful, you've gotta check out Win and Can You Hear Me? from Young Americans. Absolute classics. It's interesting that David is known for doing mainly pop. His '70s stuff ranges from progressive folk to blues rock to heavy metal to glam rock to jazz rock to punk rock to disco to soul to funk to ambient music, in that order. Some of his '80s material is pop, but mostly new wave and disco with blues rock and glam metal solos. In the '90s, he was about jazz rock, r&b, and ambient music, then industrial rock. A bunch of that stuff mixed together in the 2000s and 2010s. It led up to his final album Blackstar, which sits between jazz rock and progressive rock and is somewhat of a commercial enigma. He didn't have a ton of songs that were pop outside of singles, and most of his music is unconventional. With all due respect, Elvis wasn't on this track. David's people pitched the song to Elvis for him to do a cover, but The King turned it down and sent David a note wishing him luck on his Isolar Tour. David kept it for the rest of his life. This could have been an Elvis Presley song, but it didn't happen, unfortunately. Bowie did all of those vocals himself. If you two want something a little different from the soul tracks I started this comment with, I recommend songs like Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud, Time (live Hammersmith 1973), When the Wind Blows, and Slip Away. You'll be stunned! Keep up the great work! 💙

@markgatica12

3 жыл бұрын

And Right.

@shirleylee4958

Жыл бұрын

Responding to a 2 year old comment on a reaction video of David Bowie, I thought i was the only way one that even knew of the song WIN, you have excellent taste in Music!

Watch Bowie ripping MTV a new one in 1983 for refusing to play black artists videos. Bowie's "Young Americans" album from the year before is a true soul album. Bowie discovered Luther Vandross on that album x

@italobambino43

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, and look at MTV today, it's virtually unrecognizable. The beginning was when they presented Michael Jackson's Videos from Thriller.

Bowie constantly reinvented himself and his music. This was his Thin White Duke period. It's amazing to see him so self-conscious in front of the audience and such a disappointment to see him poorly lip-syncing his performance to the studio release. He deserved better. "Sampling" hadn't been invented yet, so he was "inspired by" soul music, as many UK artists were. So many UK bands embraced American blues and soul music, and they were the ones who introduced it to white youth in the USA, a very odd circulation of culture.

Might want to give this a listen again...you guys basically talked throughout the entire song.

@anabellelei8540

3 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly man it's Bowie! Listen!

@Michael49ize

3 жыл бұрын

@@anabellelei8540 I know right?

@martinhopkins465

3 жыл бұрын

Yup.

@olliegueret2963

3 жыл бұрын

Same......

@sandyleewhite

3 жыл бұрын

It didn't really feel like a reaction, more so, Bowie in the background of a conversation :(

Seriously i think you should listen again,, didnt seem like you actuallly heard it!!!!!

Elvis did not sing backing vocals on this song. Bowie wrote it for Elvis, but Elvis declined. They never worked together.

Bowie admitted he was drunk as a skunk when he did this

Great guys but I will not be inviting you to watch the football with me lol x

He actually hated lip syncing. And he’s very nervous, also likely hopped up on coke. Listen to his Dick Cavett interview for some real crazy drug talk.

@chrismeadows4216

3 жыл бұрын

In this case, drunk out of his mind. He wanted to do the show clean because it was so important, but his anxiety was heightened to the point that he had drinks before going on to take the edge off.

Gentlemen!!! Going forward, do us and yourselves a favor. DON'T talk over the performance. Please.

He didn’t sample shit he invented it

Sorry to be negative but you talked all the way through the song. Did you even hear it? You might want to listen to it again

Coked out of his head and still composed... rip genius!

It blew my mind when I found out that, in America, you had different pop charts and even music programmes for white music and black music WOW, what a weird idea

Jeez guys, can you actually listen!!!! What the hell!

Your dad is too funny. The 2 of you make a good team.

@briancoffey4581

3 жыл бұрын

That's his uncle.

@lizbethtramer4203

3 жыл бұрын

@@briancoffey4581 Apologies. Thank you for the correction.

@briancoffey4581

3 жыл бұрын

@@lizbethtramer4203 No problem ma'am.

You can see why he was called the "thin white dukr"

these guys are like me when I drink. I think I want to hear something and then 10 seconds in my mind is moving on to something else. Give it another listen without the PBR's:)

Um, if you talk the whole time..

Look at him lookin' all 1985 in 1975.

@teddyritola2655

3 жыл бұрын

The 80s STOLE A LOT FROM THE 70s

David bowie was thrilled to be on soul train it solidified him as on top of his game crossing over to the best music ever black music

you talked through it and didn't even pay attention to the vid and music!

LOVE the Beatles T-shirt 🥰 and of course Bowie 😅

Usually you saw black singers playing for a white dancing crowd but this was the rare exception

RIP DON CORNELIUS 💖AND DAVID BOWIE💞

David almost got thrown off the show before it even started because he was so fucked up on Coke. The producer reminded David of all the young black kids that would love a chance to be on the show .

Luther Vandross sang backup on the record. He tells a great story about being in the studio one day when a scruffy looking white guy walks in with a song he'd written for Bowie. Turns out the guy was Bruce Springsteen and the song was It's Hard to be a Saint in the City.

@gus4u2c

Жыл бұрын

That was on the Young American album only, not Station To Station which Golden Years appears

...family conversations are always good, maybe, even in youtube. Good times was had by me too. " We' rent you at Chicago at the time?". Mr Bowie was out of it, mostly, at the interwiew, BUT, we have streetcorners in our town too hih! Bit' blurred performance, but bravely done. Hazy times for mr. B. But great song from brilliant album.

David bowie a weird eyed brilliant singer. Laughing gnome is his best. Never forget

This is exactly how my Dad and I would react to this video! I love it!

Fascination is a whole jam

Bowie had to metaphorically "kill" Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders, in order to get to his Plastic Soul sound.

Guys, Guys, Bowie is not "Background music" 🤣

having a conversation over the clip is NOT having a reaction - no more of you two

That's a Mojodaddy Reaction by David Bowie.

The seventies were an era of cross pollination of genres, there were quite a few white artists who played soul/r & b/reggae as well as rock music...Shout out to Uncle Ted....

@clareshaughnessy2745

Жыл бұрын

Remember, in the UK there was no separation of music into ‘black’ and ‘white’ it was all music, the same chart the same programmes had all genres on

....you guys are literally talking through the whole song. Love you guys and your reactions but couldn’t make it through this one

The Thin White Duke, whacked out of his mind on cocaine, live on Soul Train!

I barely made it a minute before I stopped the video. Most bowie fans are die-hard and can sniff out a bullshitter instantly. Other reacts are more genuine

He also did, Fame on the show. He was married to Iman

He’s a bit nervous, but also a little bit coked up

First white guy on Soul Train.

"Brown sugar got em" 😃 yess!

Bowie starts performing and you pay it no attention and talk all over it. A reaction video is utterly pointless, if you're not going to bother watching/listening to the thing you're meant to be reacting to...

I guess that's going to have to be done again because these guys didn't even listen to the song. And Bowie's songs were not always about just the funk or the instruments. Bowie's Magic was in the lyrics. If you miss those you miss the song.

Can y’all react to “Next Time You’ll Know” by SISTER SLEDGE (the music video)

My main men Mojo and Uncle Ted! The song is a classic, this performance was not, though it is neat to see Bowie on "Soul Train". Since you mentioned Elvis Presley, he and Bowie shared the same birthday (January 8th.).

ok am i at the movies where you talk all the way through it?

You guys are so funny together! Is that your dad?

Have you seen the David Bowie MTV interview, valling out MTV's racism? You should react to that!

I believe the story is he was completely coked and piled up hence why he weighs 70 lbs but those were the times 🤣

Can you please react to Bluezone song called Jackie Please

i cant hear what youre sayin fellas

He did a bit of crack before this performance

Can you please react to the Crash test dummies song called The ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead Please

Would be much better if you didn’t talk all the way through the track

WTF??? You guys talked over the entire song. I didn't understand what you were saying, and I didn't get to even watch the damn video. You guys gotta come up with a different frickin style. Great performance???

dudes what is going on . you barely watched the video and talked throughout the performance. aren't you supposed to watch the video then react to it? there was no real reaction and Bowie Never recorded with Elvis....

All due respect but the guy on this right should focus on what is ahead of him. This is probably one of the worst reactions!

Y'all don't know how to listen

I doubt he was nervous. Probably drunk and decently on coke. Maybe other drugs.

Nice lip -synch ,Dave

@chrismeadows4216

3 жыл бұрын

He had more than a few drinks. 😂

Y'all talk too much in the background. VERY DISTRACTION!!!

Bowie is definitely not more pop! He had very few number 1s. Let's Dance was his main pop album. Most of his stuff is far from pop.

Maybe you ought to save your conversation for after the videos over.