NASHVILLE |DATE: JANUARY 9, 1998
FROM: TRESA REDBURN/MITCH SCHNEIDER
JUMP START: So far, so good. DAVID BOWIE's new year jump started with two Grammy nominations, a birthday and new artwork on the Internet. The week began with the Grammy announcements: BOWIE received nominations for "Best Alternative Music Performance" for Earthling and "Best Male Rock Vocal Performance" for the Earthling track "Dead Man Walking." Upon hearing of his nominations, BOWIE professed, "It's the nicest thing that's happened to me all this year." The critically lauded Earthling has been making the critics polls including the New York Daily News, whose Jim Farber noted: "David Bowie incorporated the new electronica into a rock context to create one of the hippest sounds ever made by a 50-year-old," and cited the album at #7 in his overall top ten albums of 1997. Elsewhere, Earthling placed at #8 on Edna Gundersen's top ten in USA TODAY, where she wrote: "Exhilarating, urgent and richly melodic, Bowie's authoritative techno art-rock fuses organic and mechanical forces, reflecting a theme that examines the dance between spiritual yearning and technological quests." On the 8th, DAVID celebrated his 51st birthday by making available two new lithographs–titled "Star" and "Conflict"–on his art website at www.bowieart.com.
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