• "'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore" is a song by English musician David Bowie, released on 17 November 2014 as the B-side of "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)"...
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    'Tis Pity She's a Whore (original spelling: 'Tis Pitty Shee's a Who[o]re) is a tragedy written by John Ford. It was first performed c. 1626 or between...
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  • 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (Italian: Addio fratello crudele, lit. 'Goodbye Cruel Brother') is a 1971 film adaptation of John Ford's tragedy. It is directed...
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    contains re-recorded versions of two songs, "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)" and "'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore", both of which were originally released in 2014...
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  • the track. A music video directed by Tom Hingston promoted it. Bowie re-recorded both "Sue" and its B-side, "'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore" for his twenty-sixth...
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  • "I Pity the Fool" is a soul blues song originally recorded by Bobby Bland in 1961 for his first Duke Records album, Two Steps from the Blues. Many music...
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  • Regarded as an anthem of glam rock, the song has received acclaim and was a commercial success. In 2021, Rolling Stone ranked "All the Young Dudes"...
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  • day], when she was trying to take a nap, she was obsessed with this song that came into her head and it was supposed to have been inspired by a French song...
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    official title for almost forty years. "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)", along with "'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore", were re-recorded for Blackstar. Recorded during...
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    of Bobby Bland's "I Pity the Fool" was no more successful than "Liza Jane", and Bowie soon moved on again to join the Lower Third, a blues trio strongly...
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    graduating in 2011, Molony co-starred as Giovanni in a production of the John Ford play 'Tis Pity She's a Whore at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, directed by Jonathan...
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  • "Blackstar" (stylised as "★") is a song by English rock musician David Bowie. It was released as the lead single from his twenty-sixth and final studio...
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  • "Lazarus" is a song by English rock musician David Bowie. Released on 17 December 2015 as a digital download, it was the second single from his twenty-sixth...
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  • she's being told that there's a far greater life somewhere, and she's bitterly disappointed that she doesn't have access to it." Doggett writes a key...
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  • New York and London, it was the last song completed for the album. Originating as a reggae parody titled "Jamaica", "Fashion" is a post-punk, dance and funk...
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  • "Starman" is a song by the English musician David Bowie. It was released on 28 April 1972 by RCA Records as the lead single of his fifth studio album The...
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  • and angels" within himself (she later confessed she "had no idea what it meant"). Bowie once stated that the song was a sequel to "Space Oddity" which...
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  • Things", going up and down a C to D scale. Doggett writes: "It was as if the piano was scared to rest in one place for more than a couple of beats, in case...
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  • is a song by the English musician David Bowie, released as a single from his album Earthling on 14 October 1997 through Virgin Records. The song was co-written...
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    Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, despite Lenya not being a member of that cast. She continued to perform and record the song throughout her life,...
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    lyric "can't tell whether she's a boy or a girl", was an influence for "Rebel Rebel". Recording for "Rebel Rebel" began at a solo session at Trident Studios...
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  • imagery "chilling", she ultimately felt it was hard to see it "as anything but perverse self-aggrandizement". Ronnie Gurr of Record Mirror was negative, finding...
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  • time. It was co-produced by Nile Rodgers, who transformed the song into a pop number with an Asian-inspired guitar riff. Bowie's version was released...
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  • video to depict "Ziggy as a kind of Hollywood street-rat" with a "consort of the Marilyn brand". This led to Foxe's casting, and she flew from New York to...
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  • offers a companion hope of entering a limousine and being isolated from the outside world. In other words, he assures his companion that she will always...
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  • for the film and released it as a single in November 1957. Mathis' version reached No. 22 on the Billboard chart. It was nominated for an Academy Award...
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    In a period of 24 months since his death, five million records were sold in UK, 3.1 million singles and two million albums. Bowie's debut release was the...
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    with a piano arrangement by the multi-instrumentalist Emm Gryner, who worked with Bowie during his 1999–2000 concert tours. Gryner said she was "so proud...
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    "Under Pressure" is a song by the British rock band Queen and singer David Bowie. Originally released as a single in October 1981, it was later included on...
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  • "Nature Boy" is a song first recorded by American jazz singer Nat King Cole. It was released on March 29, 1948, as a single by Capitol Records, and later...
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