Pretty Pink Rose (Duet with David Bowie)

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  Seven Songs for the Week #76 - 18th Sep 24

  Jason Carty

  Adrian Belew hit the road last week with BEAT a four piece playing the 1980s music of King Crimson alongside fellow KC alumnus Tony Levin. That reminded me of this 1990 single from Belew, written by and featuring a certain Mr D Bowie. That same year Bowie toured with his Sound & Vision greatest hits show (he swore he would never play the hits ever again) which I was lucky enough to see. Belew was in the band (I hadn't a clue who he was at the time) and they did this number which was on MTV Europe a good bit at the time, but the video is odd. Remember, this is what Bowie did after Tin Machine which begs the question: How much better could Tin Machine have been if it was a Belew/Bowie group project, rather than with the dull and ham-fisted Reeves Gabriels, who I believe was the worst collab to ever attach themselves to DB. This 1990 album has a Traveling Wilburies cover version on it too!