Watch the Hamilton Performance at the Grammys. David Bowie and Queen’s “Under Pressure” is the greatest song he never put on an album. Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images When an artist of David Bowie’s magnitude dies it’s hard to really know the correct response.
Every twinge of anger and sadness brings equal twinges of luck and gratitude, and all we can do is wait out the former and try to dwell in the latter. His body of work seems to lie over everything like some warm and beautiful blanket, and maybe it’s all we can do to wrap ourselves in some corner of it and try to dream for a moment. Jack Hamilton is Slate’s pop critic. He is assistant professor of American studies and media studies at the University of Virginia. In July of 1981, David Bowie went into a recording studio in Switzerland with Queen and made “Under Pressure,” a song that would become one of his most ubiquitous and most recognizable recordings, even though it never appeared on a proper Bowie album.
All those people were wrong, of course. But for heaven’s sake, listen to this song with the full band. We Were Made For These Times by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. “Do Not Lose Heart, We Were Made for These Times: Letter to a Young Activist During Troubled Times” My friends, do not lose heart.
We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world now. Ours is a time of almost daily astonishment and often righteous rage over the latest degradations of what matters most to civilized, visionary people. You are right in your assessments. I grew up on the Great Lakes and recognize a seaworthy vessel when I see one. Look out over the prow; there are millions of boats of righteous souls on the waters with you.
In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. An Illustrated Talk With Maurice Sendak (Drawings by Christoph Niemann) Neil Patrick Harris' 2011 Tony Awards Opening Number. 2012 Tonys Opening Numbers. 2013 Tony Awards: Neil Patrick Harris Opening Number HD. Quote by Maurice Sendak: “Once a little boy sent me a charming card with ...” Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with music. Tony Awards 2013 Opening Number - Neil Patrick Harris and Mike Tyson. Heart plays Led Zeppelin’s Stairway To Heaven, makes Robert Plant cry. There have been some mighty horrible renditions of Led Zeppelin‘s Stairway To Heaven, but when Nancy and Ann Wilson of Heart performed the song in front of the three remaining members of the legendary British rock band at the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony on Dec. 2, it made Robert Plant cry tears of joy.
(The band was being honoured by President Barack Obama alongside David Letterman and Dustin Hoffman.) Watch it and understand why. When the choir kicks in and Ann Wilson wails Plant’s famous “And as we wind on down the road…” you might shed a tear or two yourself. Want more Stairway? Click here for 10 of the best/worst covers of all time.