Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for April 13th

Bowie: Classic! -- Wings: Chart-Topper! -- Little Feat: Birthday Hero!

4/13/1973 (43 years ago today) - It really was more like the unofficial "Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, Part Two": David Bowie releases one of his very, very best albums, the hard-rockin'/totally perfect "Aladdin Sane" (a pun on the term "A Lad Insane"). In many ways, a louder and more intense experience that any of his previous albums: "The Jean Genie", "Watch That Man", "Drive-In Saturday", "Cracked Actor", and a nuclear-blast-cover of The Stones' "Let's Spend The Night Together". Guitarist Mick Ronson was (arguably) at his peak; this is our favorite Bowie album, hands down. 

4/13/1974 (42 years ago today) - Everything that could have gone wrong, did go wrong, and he still ended up making a masterpiece: Absolutely horrific recording studio conditions in a foreign land with stormy weather and practically all the band members quitting, it's unbelievable that Paul McCartney completed the "Band On The Run" album at all -- today it goes to No. 1 on the Billboard chart, selling over 8 million copies world-wide. That Macca brain and soul are really something else, indeed; there's not a weak track on here either...

4/13/1945 - We miss him dearly: Born on this day, the real genius behind Little Feat, singer-songwriter-slide-guitarist-extraordinaire, the absolutely incomparable Lowell George. Those early '70's Feat albums still don't sound like anybody else -- "Dixie Chicken", "Feat's Don't Fail Me Now", the double-set that just about sets the standard for live recordings "Waiting For Columbus" -- all superb and smoky and hypnotic, like they were beamed in from another planet altogether! Lowell died from a heart attack on June 29th, 1979; he was only 34 years old. This footage is insane, they were soooooooo good!!!:

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