By Hans Ebert Saying 2016 has been a bad year for music- and this year ain’t over yet- is an understatement. So is saying it’s been a bad year for the world of entertainment and the world in general. Whatever’s in the water, it’s not helped that river of life to be smooth sailing. No [...]
Posts Tagged ‘David Bowie’
THE SEARCH FOR INSPIRATION…
Posted: 28th December 2016 by We-Enhance in Beatles, Music, Music Industry, Music MarketingTags: Antonioni. Woody Allen, Coppola, David Bowie, David Lynch, DePalma, FACEBOOK, Frank Capra, George Michael, Hitchcock, Jean Luc Goddard, John Ford, Polanski, Prince, Scorsese, Sgt Pepper’s, Spielberg, Truffaut
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WHY THE PURPLE REIGN OF PRINCE CONTINUES
Posted: 9th May 2016 by We-Enhance in Love, Music, Music Industry, Music Marketing, Music MattersTags: Bruce Swedein, David Bowie, Eddie Van Halen, ERIC CLAPTON, Freddy Mercury, Jeff Porcaro, John Lennon, Louis Johnson, MICHAEL JACKSON, Quincy Jones, Steve Lukather, While My Guitar Gently Weeps
By Hans Ebert Like John Lennon and Freddy Mercury, David Bowie remains in our thoughts, because his leaving is still too raw and painful to move away from and life on Mars with Major Tom continues. Some musicians, some people, even if no longer here, just live with us for very personal reasons. Maybe we [...]
JUST BELIEVE IN YOURSELF LIKE PRINCE DID- AND JUST DO IT FOR EVERYTHING THAT MATTERS MOST
Posted: 28th April 2016 by We-Enhance in Hong Kng, MusicTags: Black music, Canto Rock Coachella festival, David Bowie, David Hasselhoff, Elton John, Hendrix, Hong Kong Football Stadium, Lan Kwai Fong, Nile Rogers, Prince, Purple Rain, The Revolution band
By Hans Ebert Okay, let’s all stop the Princeathon as we have reached Information Overload about the Purple One. Yes, Prince was a genius. He was an incredibly prolific recording artist who breathed, ate and inhaled music 24/7, and was, in these books, the best guitarist in the world capable of channeling Nile Rogers, Hendrix [...]
THAT PURPLE REIGN
Posted: 24th April 2016 by We-Enhance in Marketing, Music, Music IndustryTags: David Bowie, Ed Sheeran, OneDirection, Prince, Taylor Swift
By Hans Ebert It’s almost sacrilegious to say one musical icon’s passing has a more profound effect on one’s self than another, but, at least for myself, the last goodbye of Prince is still going through an internalizing period. And every day, there’s something new one learns about a very private person who, like Bowie, [...]
RIP PRINCE: NOW, LET’S DANCE LIKE IT WAS 1999
Posted: 22nd April 2016 by We-Enhance in MusicTags: David Bowie, George Clinton, George Harrison Tribute Concert, Jacky Wilson, James Brown, Jeff Lynne, John Lennon, Prince, Sly Stone, Steve Winwood, Stevie Wonder, Tom Petty, Warner Music, While My Guitar Gently Weeps
By Hans Ebert Just like the day one heard that John Lennon had been murdered, the news that Prince has left us fills me with huge sadness mixed with anger, confusion, a feeling of mortality, and to not tolerate pettiness from idiots and to kick all those who have offended me in the nuts- all [...]
THE MAGIC AND THE LOVE OF SHARING MUSIC
Posted: 14th April 2016 by We-Enhance in BOB DYLAN, Marketing, Music, Music Industry, Music Marketing, Music MattersTags: "THE VOICE", Bob Dylan, Bobby Darin, Brian Wilson, Carole King, Cat Stevens, David Bowie, Don Henley, JAMES TAYLOR, Jimmy Webb, John Martyn, joni mitchell, Juarez, LES PAUL, Mitch Mitchell, Paul Simon, Prince, Richard Thompson, the Eagles, The Stones, Tom Thumb
By Hans Ebert If every industry used the power of music to attract consumers, there just might be more honesty in the world that will make this a happier place- or, at least, more of a thinking person’s world, and not the vapid moment in time it can often be when one sings, “What’s it [...]
THE LASTING POWER OF MUSIC BACK CATALOGUES
Posted: 13th March 2016 by We-Enhance in Beatles, Entertainment Industry, Music, Music Industry, Music Marketing, Music MattersTags: Ben E King, BMG, David Bowie, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Glenn Frey, Hipgnosis, Jimmy Fallon, Keith Emerson, Koji Kondo, Max Hole, Natalie Cole, Nobuo Uetmatsu, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Sir George Martin
By Hans Ebert And now Keith Emerson is no longer with us. Was I a fan of Emerson, Lake and Palmer and their “Prog Rock”? Not in the slightest. It sounded contrived and ponderous despite the undisputed talents of Greg Lake, Carl Palmer and Keith Emerson. But as a music fan, I followed all the [...]
THE MUSICAL SOUNDTRACK TO LIFE: WHAT’S YOURS?
Posted: 23rd January 2016 by We-Enhance in BOB DYLAN, Beatles, Hong Kng, Music, Music IndustryTags: Crosstown Traffic, David Bowie, Glenn Frey, Hendrix, Life On Mars, Reflections Of My Life, Reservoir Dogs
By Hans Ebert I was half-watching a repeat of the television series “Life On Mars” the other night and on came “Reflections Of My Life” by Marmalade. I can’t remember if I ever saw the band perform ‘live’, but this track was hugely popular in Hong Kong when some of us were in our first [...]
FINDING DIAMOND DOGS AND LOST MUSICAL GEMS
Posted: 15th January 2016 by We-Enhance in Music, Music Industry, Music MarketingTags: Ch-ch-ch- changes, David Bowie, David Jones, Electric Light Orchestra, Fire Brigade, Flowers In The Rain, I Can Hear The Grass Grow, Life On Mars, Night Of Fear, Roy Wood, Space Oddity, Suffragette City, The Move, Ziggy Stardust
By Hans Ebert He wasn’t being confrontational, just asking: “Do you think Bowie would be the game changer he was if a new artist today? Would music companies be fighting to sign him up?” Hmmm, the music companies part is tough to answer as their role in music today is nebulous. They’re there, but why [...]
LIKE BOWIE: DON’T DREAM IT, BE IT
Posted: 12th January 2016 by We-Enhance in Music, Music IndustryTags: David Bowie, Home Alone, Justin Bieber, Macauley Caulkin
By Hans Ebert Other than those who have “made it”- and this term becomes more oblique every day- musicians still struggling to have their work be heard seem to fall into different categories. It’s a personality thing mixed with the stark realities of life. There are the dreamers. And there’s nothing wrong with making music [...]