David Bowie- Bewlay Brothers (live BBC radio 2002)
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- A rare live track, only performed on the Heathen and Reality tours, (2002, 2003-2004) Orginally appeared on the 1971 Hunky Dory album. Album version is much better in my opinion, but a rare live track nonetheless vauleable for any Bowie Nut
This song is the highlight of the whole Hunky Dory album. This and "Quicksand".
I know, I love it too! I've been a fan for years but not a FAN (if you know what I mean!) until a few years ago, so when I discovered Hunky Dory and especially this song my mind was blown! Couldn't believe I'd never listened to it before.
Haha amen!
David Bowie, you blew my mind my entire life, now in death you've broken my heart. Long live the King.
+Andy Trullinger God can I ever second that. Will always miss him till my time comes.
beause of this song and LP, let's call him The Queen!
robin2012ism , Mr Bowie was bisexual when young, not homosexual like me.
His bisexuality gave him great insight into his psyche, tremendous song writing ability, and a lot of sexual songs both of heterosexual and homosexual subject matter, that helped liberate my generation.
What a guy! We were so blessed to have him here on earth.
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robin2012ism , sorry if I sounded too critical.
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I say ditto to your every word. It's like you took them straight from my heart & tongue. I miss him daily and reminisce by listening to his pure music ... What a treasure he was to this world & it shines a lot less with him gone.
I love how, despite having never played it live before, the audience knows exactly which song it is as soon they begin playing.
Me too!
they heard it on the album
@@MrIMBECILE1 Hunky Dory My 1st LP 1972 bought it, never lost the love! We were so turned on!
this song is locked in an eternal death struggle with Rock n Roll Suicide for the title of 'my fav Bowie track'... i love it sooo much..
Same here!
I'm with you on both of those! (Wow, I just noticed you wrote that 7 years ago!)
Love the comment and so true
@@melizmatea no one is more surprised than I LOL.. 7 years !! I still feel the same way.
Lived in Brixton when I was younger and saw a tobacconists called 'Bewlay Brothers' - I thought - wow - wish I'd gone in but I was on a lunch-break and didn't smoke. It lives in my imagination.
Caroline Griffiths this was a goldmine of information !
Hi. I read that Bowie took the name of the song from that tobacconist - not sure if it was one shop or a chain. He said he didn't want to name it after himself and his brother because the sing was about more than that.
Actually.. itsvfrom when he went to HULL where the spiders are from.. it was a tabbaco emporium with paraphernalia etc.. not in Brixton at all..
In the blessed and cold
In the crutch-hungry dark
Was where we flayed our mark
Oh, and we were gone
...Kings of Oblivion
We were so turned-on
In your mind-warp pavilion
Lay me place and bake me pie
I'm starving for me gravy
Leave my shoes and door unlocked
I might just slip away
Well never see another artist capable of such diverse talent. What a perfect human being this star man was. Hope he's rocking on Mars now with the spiders. My hero for all of my life.
This song breaks my heart.
Sleep easy Mr B we will sadly never see the likes of this master of music again and such a funny lovely fella too heaven is a very lucky place to have you mate hopefully catch up with you in the stars 🙏✌️💙😊
How I wish I'd been there - I LOVE this song! He's so charming as well - I love his introduction.
Phenomenal lyrics and a great performance. I doubt we will ever see his like again
David was asked many years ago what the song meant. He said "Star Trek in a leather jacket".
DavidTransformer we won’t.end of story.
Beethoven , Elvis , Bowie . That's it .
He truly left a whole lot of excellent stuff, still to be discovered by younger generations.
A very talented musician with humour and heart.
"With humor and heart" - very well said!
Day after day they send my friends away to mansions cold and grey, to the far side of town where the thin men walk the streets whilst the sane stay underground... RIP friend David, see you again amen
Bowie had a loose leaf folder with the song lyrics printed out. He said if he had it with him, he could remember the words (mostly) without looking, but if he forgot it, he'd forget the lyrics! He was so awesome. 💔💔💔💔💔
Bowies music was ethereal and angelic and mad and beautiful and poignant and and and... I miss him daily and love him eternally. Since 5th grade when I was first introduced to his music, then to everything else he's done. He changed my life. Like I know he did for millions. He's more then just an icon. I got to see him in concert but can't wait to meet him on the other side. 😁💛
Leave my shoes and door unlocked, I might just slip away!
this song made me cry hard the minute it started. God, David!
72' I was lying on my bed, the room was dark and I had this album on. Where does the time go?
Very brilliantly done by Bowie. I have always loved this song. It is great to hear him do it live.
I'll bet there's a lot of Mick Ronson in the arrangement, too ...
He's so damn cool, he's very funny too.
i knew this song when he was alive, i know now and tomorrow. i shed a tear on the first note. RIP DB
One of my all time fave Bowie tunes
My favourite song. We need you David Bowie!
love this song from Hunky Dory and enjoy to hear it again after all the years
now its the middle of 2012, and we still need him.
now we are in 2020 and we need him more than ever!
2022 here, need I say more?!
I have just discovered this song and I absolutely in love with it!!!!
Me too - it's amazing to discover a song that you just love and find out it has been around for so many years and you just had never heard it before!
wish he had done this song more often it's amazing
My favourite Hunky Dory's song. After almost 40 years Bowie still sounds like Bowie. Incredible and sublime!
David's great music lives forever:)
It was stalking time for the moon boys.
I have always loved this song. And Bowie does it brilliantly here' John Hermann
Ye, his sweet brother Terry did commit the act.
I also always thought this was about Terry and David.
Sad.
Thanks for this...really.
Bless,
Dr.J.J.
Toronto
... he was a geniune STORYTELLER .... that for me was he´s most gifted asset .... back when in my country we had no accest to concerts ...videos ...nothing ...except to listen to his stories in genuine vinyl .... i found it so cool .... nowadays all is so coorporate handled ....
Brilliant, sadly missed by your millions of fans.
I might want this line for my wake:" Leave my shoes and door unlocked, I might just slip away"
along with the song and "After all"
so cool
I’ve been enthralled, haunted by The Bewlay Brothers for almost 50 years, and this singular live performance is so indescribably brilliant it brought a tear to my eyes. What a priceless gift to us all! ⚡️
Such confidence in his powerful lyrics and beautifully sung. You enriched our lives over and over again Mr B. Thank you
I was there....Maida Vale 2002...amazing moment
David is brilliant in this song!
LOVE U DAVID... OFF U GO!
In all the major moments and changes in my life from the first time I heard Diamond Dogs, I was about 8 years old, to the day of the passing of my loved ones, David....you gave me memories in the music you wrote and sang. Now I am 55, even this reminds me of the teenage years, being a rebel, living 5 years and still, the music lives.
Absolutely beautifull
My little brother is going through chemo right now. IT should be me. Me and him and our other bruv, invented a fictional motorcycle club, The Bully Brothers. As a family we've been listening to Hunky Dory for nearly 40 fucking years! Our fictional MC is now the Bewlay Brothers MC. The Solid Book we wrote cannot be found today...
Great to hear live. But the dark sicko version on Hunky Dory has the charm.
Quel classe bowie nous manque
I only heard the chair squeak tonight! Thinking about my little brother... an how I can't tell him how much I love him... because it would get all teary, and it's the last thing he needs!!!
Hunky Dory is My favourite of David's albums... It always feels young... This song is so full of fun as well.
Mi emoziona sempre di più ascoltare la sua musica. Grazie per la bella condivisione.
Wow. Great performance
SHOOTING UP PIE IN THE SKY!!!!!!!!! I love this song!!
Happy Birthday David, we need you!
Feel like cryin😔❤
Such a good song. I love it.
This is a very good version.....-thanks. Hunky dory (whatever that means), was the first bowie-record I bought....-always remember that in the beginning of this song, you can hear a chair (which he sat on while recording this?) makes a little sound...yea.
Ace! Live version... 🎈
one of my favorite Bowie tunes on my absolute favorite Bowie lp.
Norman Nortledorf : great song from a fabulous album. I float between Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust as best album but what a great era for music.
Amazing loved u 4 years david
une chanson magique
My death struggle is this and Moonage Daydream!!
brilliant!!!!!!
Been a fan of bowie for 40 years now. After everything and everyone, I can't quite make up my mind which is Bowie's best song. It has always been between Bewlay brothers and Moonage Daydream............
sublime bowie!
ok, thanks. The record also sounds like everything's allright...very easy feeling there
Love this song
brilliant considering it was 30 years since recording the origonal track, a rare treat thanx fr posting
I saw him play this beauty at Hammersmith odeon around 2001 , classic
Brillantissime
The Bewlay Brothers and Visions of Johanna. Ethereal genius.
One of his finest - the lyrics beguile...
..At the start of Bewley Bros you mean?....Ya, you also hear him dial a phone number and take a drag from his cigarette....(Hunky Dory means everything's alright).....
Si es mucha letra, pero toda genial, y en uno de sus mejores discos Hunky Dory. Muchas GRACIAS, DAVID, sigo llorándote.
Wow!
Great version. Near the original key too
God this is soooo beautiful
Miss you David
I've always wondered why he never sang this live, I mean, imagine Hunky Dory without it.
It was an awesome concert...my first ever Bowie concert.the one at the Apollo Hammersmith. I was on the balcony..I have some pics and I think a video but not of this song. I met other bowienutters and it was wonderful! The people in line with me for the one off gig had been at the last concert he had performed there which was when he broke up the band at the end of the Spiders From Mars tour...sigh. I do love Bowie immensely and this song was just..interesting and lovely lyrically.
Has he really ever done anything wrong? what a great guy and truly talented musician!!!
Fastest 6 minutes of my life.
Amazing !
@nbvw3 and 2012, and 2013 (in glastonbury again), and forever David!
looking forward to your new album next month David!
fucking incredible....I almost cried, and I never cry
Thanks, Joe Corners x
Precious
I like the alt version included on Sound & Vision best. This is a great performance though
please let him tour playing all of hunky dory and evrything else.......we love please
The song drew its name from a pipe called a Bewley Pipe, it was made of clay and smoked...stuff.The night this was recorded David may have part taken of the pipe...it was where the song got it's name..
One of Davids most amazing songs.
Now who was on teh phone at the end of 'life on mars?'. My guess it was Angie...
' your dinners ready luvvy'
Servoboy..
It was actually a random call from no one in particular. Mick Ronson was recording and it made him mad, so he started cussing.
such a grace in such a masterpiece. unfuckinbelievably confusing and comforting also.
This is the hook that bowie caught me with......
Great!
I can't believe I just found out about this. Standout track from Hunky Dory.
Astonishingly good.
still hard to believe he's gone. dammit.
Outstanding
@BOWIEGIRL30 He always said his brother Terry was a kind of ghost like figure in his life. He cares for him deeply but never knew him very well.
If I remember correctly he was in the army when Bowie was young, so their meetings were sporadic, then of course Bowie hit the big time and his brother tragically yielded to schizophrenia.
I don't think I've done anything to ease your pain, have I? That reads as very tragic in itself!!!
tantos años perdidos sin tocarla en vivo :c
I have listened to David Bowie all my life and i have never heard this track?
what?
The secret is listening to Hunky Dory.
i think this about his brother,who killed himself
I tie it to a best friend of mine in college, who did the same.
It is
Hey!....Actually, David said it was about the time he was a 'shaven headed transvestite ' travelling with
Lindsey Kemp mime troupe......
It is in part, but he said it was about other things as well.
A gentleman ♥️
A couple of previous posters are correct - the song is about Bowie and his half brother, Terry.