He didn’t want to do Top Of The Pops. The final chorus now had an extra fatefulness. And I was very, very relieved when he left. David Bowie Birth Chart, 8 January 1947, 9:00am, Brixton, London Rating B, www.astro.com. Scott later defines “Big Music” as “A metaphor for seeing God’s vision in the world.” And the song that brought it to the wider British public is one of the most striking of the Waterboys’ career. I recorded “…Moon” on my own with a drum machine, then brought musicians in as they were needed. “The Whole Of The Moon” is a synth-heavy sonic tribute to Prince, its guitars largely buried deep in the mix. Gertjan from Haaren, Netherlands The Waterboys commercially most succesful song The Whole of the Moon, was markedly unfinished when recording of This is the Sea began. He was powered up and intense. He gave a lot to the Waterboys, certainly. 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A friend of mine asserted for a very long time that Bowie himself did the vocals near the very end of the song but I had never heard that from anyone other than my friend. Wallinger: Did Mike have to overcome “techno-fear”? Bowie, The Beatles and crashing brass fanfares are there too, matching Scott’s lyric about reaching “too far, too high”. New York's a go-go and everything tastes nice... David Bowie has contributed a great piece to the current issue of New York Magazine, (September 29, 2003) the main thrust of which relates to his experiences of New York, funnily enough. But “…Moon” is a close second with its mighty comet moment and all-encompassing lyric. So far as I know, he hardly ever left his flat. The phrase “the whole of the moon”, as used throughout this song, is actually an idiom. They have explored a number of different styles, but their music is mainly a mix of … (LIVE PHOENIX FESTIVAL 97) IS AVAILABLE ON ISO RECORDS/PARLOPHONE RECORDS 12th FEBRUARY ON 2xCD AND 3xLP. This was the first time Mike had set aside time to make an album. He was intense then. And the idea it is intended to symbolize is an individual’s uncanny ability to perceive the grand scheme of things and accordingly aspire towards lofty goals. I went over to New York with him in 1984 for a couple of weeks, and while we were there, we saw Purple Rain at the cinema, and Mike was very impressed. So I snuck off to Paddy’s Emerald Isle and got on with the job. It was weird when I left, the way the band went – Irish sweaters and pints of Guinness. That puts you right back at the centre of the whole shebang. The fourth in the series, to be released 12th February on double CD and triple vinyl, is LOOK AT THE MOON! Magic like that just happens. David Bowie has returned to the heavens on the 10 th of January, 2016. Produced by: Mike Scott The whole of the moon! It is rumoured Scott refuses to play Top Of The Pops. So I teased out acoustic, troubadour, rootsy strands into the band’s new sound. TIMELINE I ended up with his manager for 15 years. Released as a single: October 1985; reissued March 1991 Scott: The story that a label guy tried to strong-arm me to do “…Moon” on Top Of The Pops, but was scared off by seeing Bob sitting in my flat, is delicious, but entirely untrue. Scott: Karl got the best synth sounds I’d heard, so I asked him to create Prince-like sounds for “…Moon”. Anthony Thistlethwaite, saxophone: I first met Mike in 1982. Or would people just love the song, and I’d sink or swim with what I did next? The whole album was tribute to Bowie’s fictional character, Major Tom, and his quest to reach the moon. It integrated the song more with the Waterboys identity. Echoing the method utilised for Robert Fripp’s improvisational guitar work on Heroes , Bowie, Eno and Visconti assembled the guitar solo for D.J. Though the song ain’t about him, the nearest equivalent would be Hendrix. #BowiePhoenix97 #DBBLA #BrilliantLiveAdventures, DAVID BOWIE ‘BRILLIANT LIVE ADVENTURES’ (1995-1999) - A SERIES OF SIX LIVE ALBUMS FROM THE 1990s, AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY VIA THE DAVID BOWIE OFFICIAL STORE & WARNER MUSIC GROUP’S DIG! You were there at the turnstiles With the wind at your heels You stretched for the stars And you know how it feels To reach too high Too far Too soon You saw the whole of the moon! Expect disagreements, still; arguments about musical contributions, worries over spending life in prison for hitting someone over the head with a guitar… Words: Nick Hasted. It can really damage them.” If he says he told me to play like Prince – yeah, he taught me everything I know about everything! Scott: I think the “high summit” of the “Big Music” sound was “This Is The Sea”. July 2019 is the 50th anniversary not only of the Apollo moon landing but of the original release of David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ single, which was his first ever hit. This type of vision is something the singer himself lacks, yet the addressee possesses. It's too soon for me to tell whether I'll love the song as much as the others. OCTOBER 14 1985 “The Whole Of The Moon” is released as a single, reaching no. Highest UK chart position: 3 Thistlethwaite: It surprised me that “…Moon” was the one Waterboys track the public really took to. "The Whole of the Moon" is ontstaan dankzij de vriendin van Waterboys-zanger Mike Scott, de oprichter van de band. Parlophone Records is proud to announce further details for DAVID BOWIE 'BRILLIANT LIVE ADVENTURES', a series of six live albums from the 1990s being released on vinyl and CD as limited one run only pressings. They were very close collaborators. ________________ Later that year, supporting U2, the tour coincided a couple of times with Prince, and Mike and Karl went straight over. MARCH 1991 Reissued ahead of a Waterboys Best Of…, the song finally hits the Top 3. Karl added Lennon, Prince, Bowie – sophisticated pop influences. Karl made a huge impression. Subscribe to Uncut today and never miss an issue. The synthesiser element was Karl’s very strong influence. Other songs such as “Red Army Blues” seemed more original and bizarre. DAVID BOWIE’S BIRTH CHART. “And that was sweet. That’s not what you do when you’re just the hired hand. Get … ‘One Giant Step’ examines the origins and legacy of ‘Space Oddity’ – arguably Bowie’s best known song, and its importance as a shadowy presence throughout his whole career cannot be underestimated. Het nummer is afkomstig van hun derde studioalbum This Is the Sea. 26, the Waterboys’ biggest hit to date. David Bowie - Hallo Spaceboy (Look At the Moon! The most iconic song of Bowie’s on this album is, “The Man Who Sold the World,” inspired by Robert Heinlein’s novella, The Man Who Sold the Moon. Mike is Springsteen, Patti, Dylan, Van. He and Karl would stay up reading Aleister Crowley. It’s the most commercial track that Mike’s produced. His contributions were brilliant, and added degrees of magic and depth to the Waterboys. It started with a scribble on the back of an envelope on a wintery New York street, in Jan. 1985 and was fully completed in May 1985 in a London studio, when the verse "unicorns and cannonballs, palaces and piers' was added . (Space Oddity segment of promotional film, Love You Till Tuesday. The final word rested with me. There was a definite suspicion of synthesisers. Even today, both men are quick to argue over each other’s contribution to “… Moon”. DAVID BOWIE - LOOK AT THE MOON! Mike phoned up that day, which I thought might be connected…and when I got out of hospital, he wrote me a letter saying, “Karl, I read an article in which you seemed to be saying that you wrote some of the Waterboys stuff. Wallinger:: I had an aneurysm in 2000. I was consumed with music, for three years, ’83 to ’85. One Giant Step - David Bowie's Space Oddity July 2019 is the 50th anniversary not only of the Apollo moon landing but of the original release of David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' single, which was … Then he and Karl experimented. I’d turned him onto Prince, played him Purple Rain in the summer of ’84. The race to the Moon had dominated news headlines since President John F Kennedy unveiled it in 1961. Mike Scott has remained as the only constant member throughout the band's career. JULY 7 1985 The final mix is completed in Amazon Studios, Liverpool Here's the press release for the fourth of six parts that make up Brilliant Live Adventures, available to pre-order here now. (LIVE PHOENIX FESTIVAL 97)’ TO BE RELEASED ON 2xCD AND 3xLP 12th FEBRUARY. He has left behind, stardust, silver screens in drive-ins and music that comes from the Stars and is for the Stars. I was very close with Mike at the beginning. He wrote the songs, he would never be dragged into anything against his will. You saw the whole of the moon! Oh, man. © 2021 Uncut is a member of the media division of BandLab Technologies. STORE, ‘BRILLIANT LIVE ADVENTURES’ PART 4 ‘LOOK AT THE MOON! features such previously unreleased rarities as a cover of Laurie Anderson’s ‘O Superman’, which the band had also played at their secret show as 'The Tao Jones Index’ show at the festival the previous day. The Waterboys are sitting in Jimmy Page’s west London mansion in the summer of 1985, drinking wine and playing records long into the night with Bob Dylan. Glossop: The basis of the song was Mike’s piano part. I found it quite uncomfortable with him still in the band. The whole of the flight we were shaking with the blind down, sweating, thinking If “…Moon” had really hit back then in ’85, the stakes would have got raised and the clamour of voices imploring me to repeat the formula, stay in that groove, would have become deafening. And that was a new one for Mike, not using traditional instruments. Everything bar Mike’s piano and vocal came there. Prince, Liz Phair, Bobby Gillespie, George Harrison, Lambchop, Ann Peebles, Kurt Vile, Jackson Browne, Faye Webster and Joni Mitchell. That sweetly collided with Anthony’s sax solo, so that it sounds as if the sax erupts from the comet itself. Written by: Mike Scott I hereby confirm that I at no time contributed anything of interest to the Waterboys…” I sent his next letter back, and that was the end of our great relationship. Meanwhile Wallinger, who left the band at the end of 1985 to form World Party, admits to having “great difficulty” working with his former partner. I don’t think he’s been there again. The "Alabama Song"—also known as "Moon of Alabama", "Moon over Alabama", and "Whisky Bar"—is an English version of a song written by Bertolt Brecht and translated from German by his close collaborator Elisabeth Hauptmann in 1925 and set to music by Kurt Weill for the 1927 play Little Mahagonny.It was reused for the 1930 opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and has been … I have to admit, though, my sadness is somehow selfish. It still has that mildly grandiose feel, that big, wide Waterboys sound. Wallinger: I left because I didn’t want to spend life imprisonment for hitting someone rapidly over the head with a guitar. The Whole of the Moon Lyrics: I pictured a rainbow / You held it in your hands / I had flashes / But you saw the plan / I wandered out in the world for years / … The Waterboys are a British-Irish folk rock band formed in Edinburgh in 1983 by Scottish musician Mike Scott. ________________ I think “The Whole Of The Moon” is terrific. It gave him the opportunity to experiment in the studio. I could feel the music building album by album to its climax. Few people captured the changing personas of David Bowie like Terry O’Neill. This month’s issue of Uncut (June 2013) features The Waterboys discussing their mammoth new Fisherman’s Box release – here, in this archive feature from Uncut’s July 2008 issue, the band, including Mike Scott and Karl Wallinger, reflect on the creation of their pop masterpiece, The Whole Of The Moon. We were playing First Avenue, Minneapolis the night the show was filmed. It is rumoured Scott refuses to play Top Of The Pops. Working around that feel was one of the big factors in 1985. “He was gentle, soft-spoken, tousle-headed, and played non-stop burbling lead guitar, even between songs.” LOOK AT THE MOON! It was the latter. Mick Glossop, engineer: The whole album process was new for Mike. Adding a list of all the things the hero/heroine saw raised the emotional temperature. But it has a freshness about its melodic and musical ideas. By examining David Bowies astrology chart, which many of us have now done as a tribute to the great legend, we can see how his astrology was a living breathing representation of his personality and life. Scott: Dylan had heard what we were doing, and he invited me to the London studio where he was recording to jam. 26, the Waterboys’ biggest hit to date. To express this I inserted “you came like a comet, blazing your trail”, then a “comet”, a firework sample from a BBC sound effects record. I found him quite cantankerous towards the end. Just like many others around the globe, I was saddened by the departure of a great artist of our age – David Bowie. “Dylan had heard what we were doing, and he invited me to the London studio where he was recording to jam,” recalls Mike Scott. Scott: The Beatles’ “Penny Lane” influenced the trumpet break – the sudden injection of super-fresh, bright and clear horns, a sound of optimism and clarity. Karl was a great mate, but a contributor more than a collaborator. '97) 5:16; I'm Afraid of Americans (Live at the Phoenix Festival, Long Marston, 20th July, 1997) 5:15 Seven ... David Bowie – Look At The Moon! When choosing a song for the first … by David Bowie; David Bowie – vocals, guitar, saxophone, Zachary Alford - drums, Gail Ann Dorsey - bass, vocals, lead vocal on ‘O Superman’, keyboards, Reeves Gabrels – guitars, synthesisers, vocals, musical director, Mike Garson – piano, keyboards, synthesisers. We were on a U2 tour, and nicked their limo when they went on stage to see a Prince gig in Chicago. OCTOBER 14 1985 “The Whole Of The Moon” is released as a single, reaching no. Recorded at: Park Gate Studios, Hastings; Livingstone Studio, London Bowie is an Alien who fell on Earth from the sky (Uranus), he is Ziggy from planet Mars and has a constellation named after him in the sky. On “…Moon”, the polyphonic keyboards, the synth-bass, the upbeat cymbal-accent are classic Prince ideas, which came from Karl. But a lot of ideas were specifically Mike’s. When we came out I went to a phone-box to tell my parents, and I could hardly speak! was the second and final single from Lodger in the UK and the follow up to Boys Keep Swinging. He’s so great. If the song represented a creative peak for the Waterboys, it also marked the end of Scott’s fractious relationship with Karl Wallinger, who’d joined the band in 1983. I was singularly focused on making my records. But it was a little more mutual than he says. Thistlethwaite: Mike, Steve [Wickham] and myself went down that summer to play with Dylan in Dave Stewart’s church studio in Crouch End. David Writes For New York Magazine. Highest US chart position: n/a The previous two Waterboys albums had been collections of demos, radio sessions and live tracks. “…Moon” was a studio creation, more a collage than a performance. But “The Whole Of The Moon”, reissued in 1991, became a massive hit. They were both buzzing on him for a good long while. Expect disagreements, still; arguments about musical contributions, worries over spending life in prison for hitting someone over the head with a guitar… Words: Nick Hasted It was stupid. It’s about a person who has a spectacular, meteor-like rise, but burns out or dies young. Scott: Karl needed to form his own band. LOOK AT THE MOON! The Whole of the Moon is een nummer van de Britse band The Waterboys uit 1986. We could have been massive. Now, you know Karl, that was all my songs…” I wrote back saying, “Dear Mike, I am well. Afterwards, it was Steve Wickham. The sound of “…Moon”, its synths, which crop up almost nowhere else in Waterboys music, was me copping sonic ideas from Prince, which Karl, also a big Prince fan, was able to translate. David Bowie is the self-titled debut studio album by English musician David Bowie.It was released in the UK on 1 June 1967 with Deram Records.Its style and content is often said to bear little overt resemblance to the type of music that he was later known for, such as the folk rock influenced "Space Oddity" or the glam rock of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. When “…Moon” was a hit in ’91, I wondered if it would be like when T.Rex had their first smash and everybody fell in love with Marc Bolan? I rest my case on that. Not much social life. “My song went from a cult classic to an all-time classic,” laughs Scott. And there was a cost to that. The Whole of the Moon is what I term a’Hairs on the back of the neck’ song. Photo by Getty) 1970s: Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie in 1972. Dylan loves This Is The Sea, their third, as-yet unreleased album, and has asked to record with him. I’d like 23 more like that.” Performers: Mike Scott (vocal, piano, electric guitar, chimes, effects), Karl Wallinger (keyboard bass, synthesisers, backing vocals), Anthony Thistlethwaite (saxophone), Roddy Lorimer (trumpet), Max Edie (backing vocals), Chris Whitten (drums), Martin Ditcham (percussion, sundries) The melody, the chord sequence are untypical. Nov 19, 2018 - David Bowie attends the premiere of "Moon" during the 2009 Sundance Film Festival at Eccles Theatre on January 23, 2009 in Park City, Utah. Mike Scott, writer, performer: My life was very squeezed then. The next year, when we moved to Ireland, we were in uncharted territory, beyond the record industry’s infrastructure. Then Karl took over that position. I was grounded While you filled the skies I was dumbfounded by truths You cut through lies Scott downplays what he calls “exaggerations” of Wallinger’s role. It was mind-blowing. Wallinger: Chris Whitten, who did the drums, was brought in by me as well. FACT FILE Wallinger: I collaborated with Mike with great difficulty. Recorded live at The Phoenix Festival, Long Marston, England on 20th July, 1997, LOOK AT THE MOON! Even on vocal and piano you can hear that. I was still as active and as driven.

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