{"id":752046,"date":"2026-11-07T20:45:34","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T17:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-was-inside-david-bowies-record-collection\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T20:45:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T17:45:34","slug":"what-was-inside-david-bowies-record-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-was-inside-david-bowies-record-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"What was inside David Bowie&#8217;s record collection?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6aef74feb2fe8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6aef74feb2fe8\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-was-inside-david-bowies-record-collection\/#%E2%80%9CWhat_was_inside_David_Bowies_record_collection%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;What was inside David Bowie&#8217;s record collection?&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWhat_was_inside_David_Bowies_record_collection%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;What was inside David Bowie&#8217;s record collection?&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F11%2Fnewspress-collage-o21ve414b-1793974604020.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261793956645\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Everyone, at some point, digs deep for inspiration. Even David Bowie. And when the Thin White Duke needed a musical boost, he turned to black vinyl.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>English singer David Bowie performs on the set of his music video \u201cJump They Say\u201d in Los Angeles, California, in March 1993. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the recently published \u201cMusic Lover: The Inside Story of David Bowie\u2019s Record Collection,\u201d Bowie\u2019s resources were deep and varied. Albums ran the gamut from soul king Bobby Womack to glam rockers Mott the Hoople and r<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>er Kendrick Lamar.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, Bowie\u2019s earworms of the moment were off-the-wall. \u201cThere was a Polish folk ballet album [\u2018Helokanie\u2019] that he basically rearranged and made up words to,\u201d co-author Geoff MacCormack, a lifelong friend of Bowie, recalled to The Post. \u201cIt became something on one of his German albums. I think it was \u2018Low.\u2019 He picked up the album at Tower Records when we were in there browsing.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"\/>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>David Bowie works on the set of the \u201cJump They Say\u201d music video in Los Angeles in March 1993. <span class=\"credit\">Lester Cohen<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Co-authors MacCormack and J\u00e9r\u00f4me Soligny (he met Bowie as a music journalist and they became music-swapping pals), say that even the famous Ziggy Stardust is rooted in the offbeat name of another.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The Legendary Stardust Cowboy performs in a photo taken circa 1970. <span class=\"credit\">Michael Ochs Archives<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the 1960s, a singer-songwriter from Texas dubbed himself the Legendary Stardust Cowboy and put out a few singles on Mercury Records, the label to which Bowie himself was signed. Bowie gave props to the Cowboy when he invited him to perform in London\u2019s 2002 Meltdown Festival, which he had curated. That same year, on the record \u201cHeathen,\u201d Bowie did a version of the Legendary Stardust Cowboy\u2019s other-worldly ditty \u201cI Took a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trip<\/a> (On a Gemini Space Ship).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bowie also \u201cpraised\u201d Florence Foster Jenkins, the woman who adamantly sang out of tune and was played by Meryl Streep in a movie based on her life. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>American soprano vocalist Florence Foster Jenkins, known for her lack of skill, poses for a portrait in the 1920s. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">Paramount<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to Soligny, \u201cDavid would like the idea of someone who said, \u2018People can say I can\u2019t sing, but no one can ever say I didn\u2019t sing.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDavid realized you could be doing interesting things and not everybody\u2019s going to get it. It\u2019s like the accidents in songwriting or recording. That famous piano sound in \u2018Ashes to Ashes\u2019 \u2014 it\u2019s from a keyboard that didn\u2019t work on the day of recording. And now it defines the song.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>English singer David Bowie performs on the set of his music video \u201cJump They Say\u201d in Los Angeles, California, March 1993. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Indie rockers Grandaddy got a taste of the Bowie magic after he took to their 2000 album \u201cThe Sophtware Slump.\u201d Bowie played it up during an appearance on \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d, met the band backstage at a couple of shows and shouted out requests from his seat when he saw Grandaddy at the Beacon Theater.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was such a confidence boost,\u201d frontman Jason Lytle told The Post. \u201cIf you have David Bowie over there, saying he loves the band, then it\u2019s, like, screw everyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jason Lytle of Grandaddy performs on stage at Potterrow in Edinburgh, Scotland, Thursday, March 23, 2017. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As to what Bowie dug about the group, Lytle said, \u201cI\u2019m hoping he honed in on our sincerity. The album was made scrappily in a little farm house where we tried to make something way beyond our knowledge and reach. Perhaps, he tapped into that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Bowie was not beyond sending assistants off on record-buying sprees \u2014 in an unverified note that turned up on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reddit<\/a>, he asked that a \u201cgo-for\u201d from RCA Records pick up albums by British punks the Stranglers, Ultravox and the Damned before an impending trip to \u201cSwizzleland\u201d \u2014 he often did his own record shopping.<\/p>\n<p>One of his Manhattan spots was the House of Oldies Rare Records in Greenwich Village. Bob Abramson, who owns the store, recalled to The Post, \u201cHis hair was fluffy, and he was extremely nice.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>David Bowie performs the song \u2018Rebel Rebel\u2019 on the Dutch TV show TopPop in Hilversum, Netherlands, Feb. 7, 1974. <span class=\"credit\">Redferns<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bowie knew what he wanted: \u201cHe collected rare records, a lot of rockabilly stuff, like Carl Perkins and Gene Vincent. He bought a first pressing of a Larry Williams album\u201d \u2014 who wrote \u201cBony Moronie\u201d and \u201cDizzy, Miss Lizzy\u201d \u2014 \u201cwhich I think sold for around $200 at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abramson points out that Bowie wanted to be a low-key customer, and the proprietor was happy to honor that wish. But another charismatic record-hound was not so accommodating. Bob Plotkin, now deceased, was the loveable curmudgeon who owned the Village\u2019s punk-centric Bleecker Bob\u2019s Golden Oldies. He had fun at the expense of his rock-star customer.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">David Bowie performs at Giants Stadium at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Aug. 3, 1987. <span class=\"credit\">Redferns<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">David Bowie arrives at King\u2019s Cross Station in London on May 15, 1973, en route to Aberdeen, Scotland, for his Ziggy Stardust tour. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBowie came into the store and Bob called him \u2018Davie\u2019 before putting on Bowie\u2019s silliest song, \u2018The Laughing Gnome.\u2019 Bowie got embarrassed but loved it,\u201d Jennifer \u201cJK\u201d Kitzer, Plotnik\u2019s girlfriend and partner, told Dylan Jones for his Bowie bio. \u201cBefore touring with Nine Inch Nails [in 1995], Bowie bought lots of techno stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some of the records that landed on Bowie\u2019s turntable came at the recommendation of MacCormack. Sometimes, he and Bowie\u00a0exchanged musical recommendations via text and email. Sounding a little sad, he remembered his last rec, which came during the latter part of August 2015.<\/p>\n<p>It was a YouTube clip from an experimental band called Algiers. Upon checking it out, Bowie replied, \u201cGeoff, your music choices are so on the money, every time. I\u2019m so glad you\u2019ve been my friend all these years. I miss you lots \u2014 now f\u2013k off!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MacCormack, figuring he was responding in the spirit of the moment, wrote back, \u201cYes, likewise pal. Off and f\u2013ked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bowie replied: \u201cMission accomplished.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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