"The Jean Genie" is a song by the English singer-songwriter David Bowie, originally released in November 1972 as the lead single to his 1973 album Aladdin...
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regarded as one of his most iconic images. Accompanied by the UK top-five singles "The Jean Genie" and "Drive-In Saturday", Aladdin Sane was Bowie's most...
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been the B-side of "The Jean Genie" in November 1972 and the latter would be released as an A-side in July 1976 to help promote the compilation. The album...
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Look up Genie, genie, or ginni in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A genie, or jinn, is a supernatural creature in early pre-Islamic Arabian and later...
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Cyrinda Foxe (category People associated with The Factory)
Bowie's 1972 single, "The Jean Genie". Bowie wanted the video to depict "Ziggy as a kind of Hollywood street-rat" with a "consort of the Marilyn brand". This...
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On A Wing', an über-cool 'Waiting For The Man', and riotous, thrilling renditions of 'Stay' and 'The Jean Genie'" with "Bowie and his terrific 1976 band...
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Music video (section 1992–2004: Rise of the directors)
Dancing" (May 1972), "The Jean Genie" (November 1972), the December 1972 US re-release of "Space Oddity" and the 1973 release of the single "Life on Mars...
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sixth film, Café de Flore (2011), was the most nominated film at the 32nd Genie Awards. Vallée's next films, the American dramas Dallas Buyers Club (2013)...
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Released in October 2002, four months after the critical and commercial success of the Heathen album, the songs range from his second album, David Bowie...
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David Live (category Albums recorded at the Tower Theater (Pennsylvania))
He gave immense praise to "Knock on Wood", "Sweet Thing", "The Jean Genie" and the previously unreleased "Space Oddity". However, he ultimately considered...
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Le génie du mal (French pronunciation: [lə ʒeni dy mal]; or The Genius of Evil or The Spirit of Evil), known informally in English as Lucifer or The Lucifer...
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Time Top 1000 Albums. For his 1972 single "The Jean Genie", David Bowie aimed to replicate the sound of The Rolling Stones. He said: "I didn't get that...
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Genie (born 1957) is the pseudonym of an American feral child who was a victim of severe abuse, neglect, and social isolation. Her circumstances are prominently...
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Santa Monica '72 (category Albums recorded at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium)
(namely that, with the exception of The Jean Genie, the setlist contains no songs from Aladdin Sane, which were very present by the end of the tour), which...
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1972 hit single "The Jean Genie". In his 2005 book Moonage Daydream, Bowie confirmed that the title "...was a clumsy pun upon Jean Genet". A later promo...
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and performed "The Jean Genie" with Bowie and band. Mick had only been asked to play the day before when he had been backstage at the previous night's...
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2018. The EP contained four new songs: "Buckle Up", "My Panties", "The Jean Genie", and "Too Drunk to Fuck".[citation needed] In October 1999, Swatch...
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advertising the series. In several episodes, Gene Hunt adopts the name "Gene Genie", in reference to yet another Bowie song, "The Jean Genie", used in the fourth...
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during the dance set of the Earthling Tour. One of these performances appeared on the live album LiveAndWell.com. The musical intro is used as the title...
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Jeff Beck (category Pages using the EasyTimeline extension)
Bowie onstage to perform "The Jean Genie"/"Love Me Do" and "Around and Around". The show was filmed and was finally released in the 2022 Bowie documentary...
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Sane and the covers album Pin Ups (both 1973), and Diamond Dogs (1974). His songs from this era include "Suffragette City", "The Jean Genie", "Rebel Rebel"...
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David Bowie (redirect from Davy Jones and the Lower Third)
the UK top five singles "The Jean Genie" and "Drive-In Saturday". Bowie's love of acting led to his total immersion in the characters he created for...
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Mick Ronson (category Mott the Hoople members)
Moonlight Tour, playing lead guitar during the performance of "The Jean Genie". He had only been asked to play the day before, and later recalled: I was playing...
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Stage is the second live album by the English musician David Bowie, recorded on the Isolar II Tour, and released through RCA Records in 1978. Stage has...
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the compilation. The different formats of the album all offer different tracks and mixes compared to the others. The three-disc version includes the most...
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its predecessor "The Jean Genie", became a Top 3 UK hit. Heavily influenced by 1950s doo-wop, "Drive-In Saturday" describes how the inhabitants of a post-apocalyptic...
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Roll Suicide" – 2:56 "John, I'm Only Dancing" (Sax version) – 2:37 "The Jean Genie" – 4:03 "Breaking Glass" (Live from Stage) (Bowie, Dennis Davis, George...
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Jeanie Buss (redirect from Genie Buss)
who is the controlling owner and president of the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and co-owner and promoter of the U.S....
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John, I'm Only Dancing (category The Polecats songs)
of "The Jean Genie" (1972). The writer Ian Rankin of Black and Blue said Mick Ronson's guitar sounded "like sawing through metal". Ronson ended the refrains...
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Space Oddity), The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Aladdin Sane and the last Spiders...
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