I'll second that. Same with Roxy Music Guitarist Phil Manzanera, though thank heavens he is most definitely alive and well! Both David and Bryan Ferry always liked to work with different musicians to create different ambience and dynamics within their various stages of writing. Mmm 🤔. Sometimes the grass ain't always greener, eh? R. I. P Mick Ronson. Jamming up there in heaven with the most awesome band ever!!! Much love and R E.S.P E.C.T to all you guys and gals, I hear Duke Ellington is playing rock'n'roll these days... 😊
exactly right....when i see it on video i can see what a great guitarist he was and he did deserve more. but at the time there was a lot of competition when it came to electric guitar.
Deserve more? He was great and everyone knows it, Bowie was the star and that's how it was.MR didn't have a bad career but just couldn't put his head above the parapet and so wasn't as famous.Guy worked with Dylan, Mott the Hoople, Ian Hunter, Morrissey. Pretty good to be fair
@@waltm8011 How did he copy New York Dolls when he had songs in 1964,65 & 66 in the UK (plus the hit single Space Oddity in 1969) and they didn't even form a band til 1971 in New York?
I think largely depends on how old you were. This was a little bit before my time I'm 59 so it's not like a 50s song as it was slightly on my radar. I suspect I only heard old songs like this a bit later through radio shows like Pick Of The Pops.
1972....I'm 11 years old and seen this in TV. I'm so grateful to have been young during such a great musical time. New timeless songs in the charts every week.
So am i... still cant believe that Starman ia already gone. Cant help my tears from falling everytime i watch Annie Lenno's speech about the sudden passing away of our beloved David Bowie.
Consider myself fortunate,having seen the Spiders from Mars,Diamond Dogs and Alladin Sane tours live. Can leave this mortal world satisfied. Bowie rules!!!
Indeed u are. From the start of rock until 1995 there were so many historical shows by amazing bands people had the opportunity to see. Since then i cant really think of anybody at such a level. Rock n roll died in 95. I was aware enough to see and feel it fade out and followed up by the worsed years in music history. Endless number of boy bands and girl pop groups inserted their superficial synthetic filth over everything for so many dark cold years. Those years were so hard to get through alot of people didnt make it as their very being and will to live was just callously drained crushing their spirit and hope things one day things might go back to normal. Its been almost 20 yrs since it ended and we are still dealing with the aftermath and bodies. So many lost
One of my most treasured memories was to see Bowie in concert in Sydney. We took our beautiful son, who we lost a few years later, but this memory of us together watching the genuis of Bowie together will live in forever ❤
R.I.P To The Thin White Duke. Mr. Bowie you were loved and revered for your great music and being a true rock and roll pioneer, you will be sorely missed.
What a great track! Loved Bowie then, when I was just 12 year old, and half a century later, this song is just as exhilarating, thrilling and brilliant as back in the day!! There will never be another David Bowie. He was extraordinary, unique and original, so talented. I MISS YOU, SPACEBOY!! Also, it's so sad we lost MICK ROCK R.I.P. The most brilliant photographer. Lastly, MICK RONSON, WOW, what an incredible guitarist. R.I.P
Wow!!! Your old... Like myself. Oh well, was fun while it lasted I suppose.As was saying, I too had my mind " polluted" by Mr. Bowie and his ilk and should think I'm the better for it now. As I was the youngest of the litter of six children I found myself exposed to many flavors music, of which I am eternally grateful for. By and by they've crafted a beautifully unique tapestry of sublime colors interwoven with Rich memories and curious textures. Truly a thing exquisitely rare but I don't keep it hidden, then again seems a waste that I should display it to those who lack vision and understanding. But alas the Lord has indeed blessed me with two young men, whom find great delight in the aforementioned article of beauty. The symbiotic cycle is nearing an end and then I shall rest. Tip of the hat to you Mr. Bowie and you as well. 😮
Mick was the power behind Bowie, shame the audio is wrong for the time of release. The audio here is from Aladdin Sane which was 1973, i have the single from 1972 and it is different.
This is my favorite glam rock tune and IMO one of the greatest rock tunes ever. I'm 60 years old and having lived my childhood through the glam rock era, it still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up every time I hear it.
This features Cyrinda Fox ( girl with short platinum hair), a girl who happened to be just hanging out at same hotel Bowie was at, in LA, I believe. This was the start of her modeling career, Bowie liked her look & featured her in what was a prelude to stylized & highly produced music videos that launched MTV into existence. 1972/1973 was the infancy of this sort of media. Cyrinda instantly became famous among the rock 'n roll community, going on to a modeling career, minor acting career. What she's really known for is her personal life. After the Bowie cameo, she arrived in NYC to continue modeling & began dating, then marrying David Johansson, lead singer of glam rock band, The New York Dolls (he always reminded me of what the son of Mick Jagger & Steven Tyler would look like), speaking of Aerosmith, Cyrinda had a notoriously wild affair with Steven Tyler, of Aerosmith, who apparently was a friend of Johansson. Cyrinda left her New York Doll for Steven Tyler, as soon as divorce was granted, she & Steven Tyler walked this way into the wedding chapel & were married. They had one child, daughter, Mia Tyler..
I walked into the NAVEX in Naples, Italy in the summer of 1977. My ship, the USS Nimitz was anchored in Naples Bay. Someone put this song on a turntable and cranked the sound through some Bose 901 speakers. I just froze in my tracks, purchased the speakers and dragged them around for 2 days (could not get back to the ship - rough waters). I still have those speakers to this day, and David Bowie's "Jean Genie" as well!!!
No one has lived up to Bowie in all these years. There is just no one like him. Im only early 30s but i was brought up on him by my Dad and my mind was blown aged 4 and is still blown ❤❤❤ when he died it felt like i had lost a family member 💔
Believe me, it was so exciting at the time. The world was alive with such music. I fell in love with Bowie in '72, when I was 11 and I grew through all those phases of his music throughout that decade. So lucky.
David Bowie is always pushing boundaries and making something new 🎉🎉. He has a unique style and class that is not like anyone else 🎉🎉. He's in a class all by himself. RIP,David you will be truly missed 😢 😔
This is what started my it for me. My Bowie obsession. Picture the scene, a 13 /14 year old middle class laddie, first disco, local village hall, scrubbed up to the nine and a halves in new clothes, bought just for the occasion. Place packed, DJ plays The Jean Genie. Everyone to a man and woman up on the dance floor, singing and stamping their feet to the riff. Never seen or heard anything like it, thought the wooden floor was going to crash. Instead it was Bowie crash landing into my world and I never looked back. That sense of community, the energy and power of youth has always stayed with me. Thank you Mr David Bowie, you changed my life.
I always like how at 3:02 and for much of the rest of the video, David Bowie sings directly to Mick Ronson. It seems to suggest that he knows he has a good guitarist, who is greatly responsible for the success of his act
Life changing music since the 70's. Thank you Ziggy. please RIP. Your amazing work is done here. See you again. Thanks to the Spiders too, RIP Mick Ronson & Trevor Bolder.
I can’t believe Bowie is gone. I was so serious about my dance career that I gave up a David Bowie concert to train…. I still regret it 20 something years later
I was 12 when this hit the charts in 1972. I was a Bowie fan. This was absolutely brilliant. Bowies had that many great records, but this is my all time favorite track. Thanks for the music David. Not forgetting his great band, the Spiders. 👍
I was 9yo in '72, but I heard this every day for years, thanks to an older sister and her friends!...............Thank you Jill, Linn, Susan, Tricia, the two Louises and the beautifully dusky and exotic Fleur.............
Good observation about the Blues. They “borrowed” the Blues riff. That da da da da riff is Black Blues music. They really should pay at least symbolically a tithe 10 percent of the royalties from this song to a Blues foundation or organization that helps Blues musicians because that Riff is as old as time and is in many Blues songs!
Wish that these so-called classic rock FM radio stations would play more songs like this instead of the so very tired worn out crappola they do play way too much. Classic rock song from Bowie!
Here in Fresno, CA we used to have an “oldies but goodies” station that played everything from the 60s - 80s - and then suddenly it was changed to like like mariachi music. It was about the only good station of classic rock. And we haven’t been driving much so much anymore but when we did, we’d put it on Bowie, or Hamilton”, and even Broadway.
Forever iconic rest in peace David Bowie and Cyrinda Foxe If you look at David early during the Ziggy stardust era it foreshadows a little bit of another one of my favorite other British rockers and that's my good friend John Waite
after his death I had a night of only Bowie music with a friend. We had Jean Gin Tonic Genie and Diamond Hot Dogs. Now he has a dog called Bowie. How a good friend he is.
@@ezekielbrockmann114 thank you for this comment. The moment I heard David passed away I began to hear David's music for days. Never had that experience before. Crazy what music does.
I recall seeing this on T.V. Iwas a junior in high school. Very different, i must say. But totally rocking .Enjoyed the song and Micks quitar playing. I was eighteen yrs. Old.
Watching this video once was simply not enough. Had to watch it three times just to appreciate the extreme "coolness" that is David Bowie and Mick Ronson!!
The Jean Genie, 1973, will always be my favourite David Bowie song, The guitar work of Mick Ronson, is legendary. 1970-1975 is the BEST five years of music by Mr David Robert Jones!
I needed a guide for the FM subculture that year being so young and I had none. Took years and years to catch up firsthand. And our blue 1967 Biscayne wagon we bought that year had factory yet non Multiplex F M radio!!!
This beautiful man who sang freely without any restrictions or barriers just being free without letting the critics hold him down. His words were like magic flowing from his mouth entertaining us with music and lyrics with so much meaning. Space Oddity was my first awakening into his music. He is one of the music gods that will always be in our memory.
Spiders of Mars. Aren't they the best ever?
Clearly, they impressed you so much that you got their name wrong. They were the Spiders _from_ Mars, not the Spiders _of_ Mars.
Cyrinda Foxe, the Jean Genie❤❤❤
She was a groupie with a fake name. Gross.
Mick Ronson, the genius behind this music. Never got the credit he so deserved. Rip Mr. Ronson.
Oh yeah...Mick ronson!
I'll second that. Same with Roxy Music Guitarist Phil Manzanera, though thank heavens he is most definitely alive and well!
Both David and Bryan Ferry always liked to work with different musicians to create different ambience and dynamics within their various stages of writing.
Mmm 🤔.
Sometimes the grass ain't always greener, eh?
R. I. P Mick Ronson. Jamming up there in heaven with the most awesome band ever!!!
Much love and
R E.S.P E.C.T to all you guys and gals, I hear Duke Ellington is playing rock'n'roll these days... 😊
exactly right....when i see it on video i can see what a great guitarist he was and he did deserve more. but at the time there was a lot of competition when it came to electric guitar.
I know thats messed up
Deserve more? He was great and everyone knows it, Bowie was the star and that's how it was.MR didn't have a bad career but just couldn't put his head above the parapet and so wasn't as famous.Guy worked with Dylan, Mott the Hoople, Ian Hunter, Morrissey. Pretty good to be fair
Even amongst Bowie's impressive portfolio this stands out as an absolute and timeless pinnacle.
The best
Back when this came out it was one of the greatest songs I'd ever heard. It still kicks ass to this day.
It is certainly David Bowie's best tune. Classic rock that rocks.
They worked together am sorry loads of songs before this prettiest star for one absolutely brilliant 👏
Even if it is just a rehashed John Lee Hooker riff
This song will kick ass in 4063
The Jean Genie IS Bowie for me .
And let’s not forget Mick Ronson providing the famous guitar tones.
Can I get an upvote for the Ronno!
....no thanks..
Hell yes
Too right!
@Enig matikkk French so erm nobody cares mate lol
Too right....... fantastic guitarist !
This is 1972! He is such a visionnary! He is not enough credited as one of the main inspiration for punk-rock.
ehhh pretty sure literally everyone agrees that he's one of the single most influential people in the history music
I know my idol "Billy Idol" was definitely influenced by Bowie! Fine by me, bc i love them both
He copied by the New York Dolls. Just a copycat.he liked a lot Johnny Thunders that he named “The raven”
@@waltm8011 How did he copy New York Dolls when he had songs in 1964,65 & 66 in the UK (plus the hit single Space Oddity in 1969) and they didn't even form a band til 1971 in New York?
Izzy _ the stile of Jean Genie and especially Rebel Rebbel not the entire carreer. Remember what M .Jagger saw about Bowie.
Just one of the joys of growing up in the 70's
I was 20, and always dancing to this then and still going 🤗
I think largely depends on how old you were. This was a little bit before my time I'm 59 so it's not like a 50s song as it was slightly on my radar. I suspect I only heard old songs like this a bit later through radio shows like Pick Of The Pops.
@@GlenDoer-gq1rs yeah.. crying again.. wtf
Lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllp❤@@Rosie-tv3ki
1972....I'm 11 years old and seen this in TV. I'm so grateful to have been young during such a great musical time. New timeless songs in the charts every week.
Where did all those years go?? 🤩
I was 12 👍👍👍👍👍
You were 12 when what?
Yes, timeless
Également.
Une époque musicale ❤❤
Happy birthday David, we miss you!
I think I need to stop watching Bowie videos before I start to cry. I cannot beleive he is gone.
😢
He visited us and is now where he belongs.
So am i... still cant believe that Starman ia already gone. Cant help my tears from falling everytime i watch Annie Lenno's speech about the sudden passing away of our beloved David Bowie.
It still hurts that he is gone, and Mick Ronson too, David and Mick are making Great Rock n Roll in Heaven!
Yeah it's really comforting and self-indulgent to cry for someone from a distance and whom you did not even know 😭
This is still sounds timeless in 2020, 48 years after.....
The Jean genie let yourseeeelf gooooooo, 🎶🎶🎶
It was a wonderful time to be alive wasn't it? Like a fine wine the songs of our youth get better with age. Perfectly delicious.
@@johnforbes3364 His music has infusion to heavy metal just ask Metallica.
Especially when coronavirus
Ya, thanks to Mick Ronson 👍
Always timeless.
And Mick Ronson was genius too
saw mick and ian in 1971 at east ham granada cinema we bunked in i was 11!
Mick was the engine
most ppl forget about Ronson, he was amazing.
Damn right!
Bowie Bowie!
I was 19 now I'm 71 love this song
Eyup Sharon 66 now and same as you Ziggy was probably his best era musically
65 for me and he is still the best.
I'm 65 still love all the early songs
Different than anyone else.
same here!!
Same here. Same age as you too!
51 years later this song is still killin it. RIP David & Mick.
This music is so classic. You might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like David Bowie
Timeless!
I'm not so sure they'd find nice that right-half on pfp...
I’m just having a David Bowie binge during quarantine
Yeah baby.
HandSanitizer me too
same
Fuck yeah...
Yesterday was the blues for me. Today, Bowie. Tomorrow... never know.
Bowie has outlasted so many artists, his music still sounds fresh fifty years later.
Yes. In two years' time Ziggy Stardust is 50 years old.
@@davidcopson5800wow
@@davidcopson5800 51 and still kicks ass
It has to said what a brilliant artist Mr David Bowie was.
310th like. Mr Bowie playlIst and I 😂🎉❤
Consider myself fortunate,having seen the Spiders from Mars,Diamond Dogs and Alladin Sane tours live. Can leave this mortal world satisfied. Bowie rules!!!
Indeed u are. From the start of rock until 1995 there were so many historical shows by amazing bands people had the opportunity to see. Since then i cant really think of anybody at such a level. Rock n roll died in 95. I was aware enough to see and feel it fade out and followed up by the worsed years in music history. Endless number of boy bands and girl pop groups inserted their superficial synthetic filth over everything for so many dark cold years. Those years were so hard to get through alot of people didnt make it as their very being and will to live was just callously drained crushing their spirit and hope things one day things might go back to normal. Its been almost 20 yrs since it ended and we are still dealing with the aftermath and bodies. So many lost
@@anthonywandowicz8084 me n me know
Wow , i only managed the Glass Spider one , but it was unforgettable.
I wish I had an opportunity to see him in flesh
1972
Great live shows. He reinvented himself so many times and it was always great.
One of my most treasured memories was to see Bowie in concert in Sydney. We took our beautiful son, who we lost a few years later, but this memory of us together watching the genuis of Bowie together will live in forever ❤
Saw him in Adelaide in 83. Can;t remember a thing about it. I was wasted.
@shaunclubberlang2887 That's such a shame
50 years later and still kicks ass. Oh yeah. 👍
R.I.P. David Bowie. You were one of a kind and I will enjoy what you left us for the rest of my life!
We were lucky to be alive to enjoy it.
Yes indeed I will too.
Sat in garden large red wine in right hand. 51 year old absolutely loving bowie he's the only thing bringing a smile to my face in this shit time.
Yep.😊😢😊😊❤
Absolutely had those evenings myself, hope you've had many more since my friend. :)
It's even more shit now.
The guitar riff alone is Legendary. If I had to pick just one of Bowie’s classics - it would have to be this masterpiece. R.I.P 🙏😘❤️
This music is so classic. You might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like David Bowie
Blockbuster
@@matsfrommusic Yes, it's Blockbuster.
At the same time the sweet did Blockbuster who knows the Legends live on
Mick Ronson said in a interview that he got the idea for the riff from a Muddy Waters song, always steal from the best!
Love Duke White♥️♥️♥️🇮🇹
R.I.P To The Thin White Duke. Mr. Bowie you were loved and revered for your great music and being a true rock and roll pioneer, you will be sorely missed.
but this is aladdin sane.
I hope he enjoys retirement with his new identity.
@@scott-o3345 you honestly think he faked his death??
I bought his last double vinyl album right before he passed away. This song is on the vinyl :P
the thin white duke was murdered by iggy pop and brian eno in 1977 mate
What a great track! Loved Bowie then, when I was just 12 year old, and half a century later, this song is just as exhilarating, thrilling and brilliant as back in the day!! There will never be another David Bowie. He was extraordinary, unique and original, so talented. I MISS YOU, SPACEBOY!! Also, it's so sad we lost MICK ROCK R.I.P. The most brilliant photographer.
Lastly, MICK RONSON, WOW, what an incredible guitarist. R.I.P
Mais personne.aime, je met et remet sans succès.... Bof 👎☎️👓
The Spiders had to be from Mars cause they certainly weren't from this planet Earth !
Ye. I was 13. I need a Bowie fix daily ever since
Wow!!! Your old... Like myself. Oh well, was fun while it lasted I suppose.As was saying, I too had my mind " polluted" by Mr. Bowie and his ilk and should think I'm the better for it now. As I was the youngest of the litter of six children I found myself exposed to many flavors music, of which I am eternally grateful for. By and by they've crafted a beautifully unique tapestry of sublime colors interwoven with Rich memories and curious textures. Truly a thing exquisitely rare but I don't keep it hidden, then again seems a waste that I should display it to those who lack vision and understanding. But alas the Lord has indeed blessed me with two young men, whom find great delight in the aforementioned article of beauty. The symbiotic cycle is nearing an end and then I shall rest. Tip of the hat to you Mr. Bowie and you as well. 😮
Yep that's a whole bunch of good old boys I can't wait to get to heaven and hook up to their next concert
Simply put, some people were born to be performers. RIP David Bowie!
[ Loves To Be Loved ], don’t we all? Bowie sure had a way with words.
One of the best of all rock tunes.....Bowie at his best.
Yessssssss
And the rock and roll best side burns ever Courtesy Mr Trevor Bolder
If you like listening to David Bowie you might like a band called The Doublejumps
1972...still fresh
What a kick arse tune..bowie is king
SO SAD HE PASSED.
And the chemistry between David and Mick gets me every time I watch them together-
Mick was the power behind Bowie, shame the audio is wrong for the time of release. The audio here is from Aladdin Sane which was 1973, i have the single from 1972 and it is different.
omg these quiffs
According to Bowie's ex wife, Angie, she walked in on them, sleeping, naked & hung over in her bed. Bowie has admitted to being bisexual.
That was Mick Jagger, not Mick Ronson.
To say this classic is over 50 years old, it still is so good now!
It was a pleasure to see this gent live in 87 and 95 . We love David. Rest in peace.
This is my favorite glam rock tune and IMO one of the greatest rock tunes ever. I'm 60 years old and having lived my childhood through the glam rock era, it still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up every time I hear it.
This features Cyrinda Fox ( girl with short platinum hair), a girl who happened to be just hanging out at same hotel Bowie was at, in LA, I believe. This was the start of her modeling career, Bowie liked her look & featured her in what was a prelude to stylized & highly produced music videos that launched MTV into existence. 1972/1973 was the infancy of this sort of media. Cyrinda instantly became famous among the rock 'n roll community, going on to a modeling career, minor acting career. What she's really known for is her personal life. After the Bowie cameo, she arrived in NYC to continue modeling & began dating, then marrying David Johansson, lead singer of glam rock band, The New York Dolls (he always reminded me of what the son of Mick Jagger & Steven Tyler would look like), speaking of Aerosmith, Cyrinda had a notoriously wild affair with Steven Tyler, of Aerosmith, who apparently was a friend of Johansson. Cyrinda left her New York Doll for Steven Tyler, as soon as divorce was granted, she & Steven Tyler walked this way into the wedding chapel & were married. They had one child, daughter, Mia Tyler..
She made me realize that I'm bisexual.
Great history thanks
Spawn ofJagger/Tyler!! ;))
David Jo wrote a beautiful song about her leaving him for Tyler. It's called Flamingo Road.
@@roberthampton3791 Are you high? Tyler paid Cyrinda Foxe's room for her rehabilitation.Bowie's guitar could be sold for more than 10k in early 2000s.
What great rock music should sound and feel like.
Absolutely 👍
And hip-hop NEVER can!
David Bowie loved hip hop
Hip-Hop was great.
There's great and bad music in every genre. This is an objectively great rock song. One of the best of all time.
He was an amazing talent, and he has left an incredible legacy
Immense ... I play Bowie covers on YT and hope the band smile from far far away.
Wow, now that is what I call a musical genius!!! R.I.P David
@@markventura4253 Welcome onboard Bowie fan ... I'm doing covers on YT and have been recording heroes today ... many parts to play .. but fun.
Mick Ronson 🎸🎸🎸🎸 👍👍👍👍
The sound is somewhere due to him and his guitar…
A perfect duo !!!!!
Go on for EVER rocking , Mr. Bowie…❤❤❤❤
What a talent thank you England for another super star.
So true ⭐👌💋
Honesty, you could take any year between 1965 and 1975 and just stay there forever. The music was that great and will never be bettered.
I want to go back NOW.
An absolute genius, he didn't bend to fit the music. He bent the music into whatever suited his mood and or persona.
The fans changed for him and not him changing for some fad that would last two years at most.
To me this was ALWAYS his best band. He had lots of good ones but this was the BEST!!!
Immense ... I play Bowie covers on YT and hope the band smile from far far away.
Alors.pourquoi personne.aime?.Ou met?..
Amitiés biz Murielle 🥰❤️ respect 😁💐
No auto tune , backing tracks , stupid dancing
Lip syncing. Just raw talent all around the stage. Plus that hair and glasses !!! 🎉🎉
I listened to this song all the time. I was 13 then .
If you like listening to David Bowie you might like a band called The Doublejumps
No words for this...MIND BLOWING
Thanks, David and Mick wherever you are. One for the ages!
I walked into the NAVEX in Naples, Italy in the summer of 1977. My ship, the USS Nimitz was anchored in Naples Bay. Someone put this song on a turntable and cranked the sound through some Bose 901 speakers. I just froze in my tracks, purchased the speakers and dragged them around for 2 days (could not get back to the ship - rough waters). I still have those speakers to this day, and David Bowie's "Jean Genie" as well!!!
No one has lived up to Bowie in all these years. There is just no one like him. Im only early 30s but i was brought up on him by my Dad and my mind was blown aged 4 and is still blown ❤❤❤ when he died it felt like i had lost a family member 💔
Ahhhh, the beautiful Cyrinda Foxe. What a Fox! RIP to you all.
Motor bikes, whereing leather jackets, beer down the local, dancing in the town halls, apprenticeship and a blonde who loved David Bowie!
She didn’t love him. Kathleen was a starf*cker.
Still lovin ya Bowie....xx
Believe me, it was so exciting at the time. The world was alive with such music. I fell in love with Bowie in '72, when I was 11 and I grew through all those phases of his music throughout that decade. So lucky.
Hello Deborah, how are you doing?
The world since bowie passed is total trash.
Deborah....are you from Hamilton NZ?.
Great song!!! I wish he was still here!!! RIP Bowie
A SUPERB TALENT, WONT SEE ANYBODY BETTER, EVER.
Happy Birthday David Bowie⚡⚡💙💙💙
Many people talk about Ziggy Stardust, but for me, Aladdin Sane was by some distance, his peak album of this period.
That's right my friend .. ir was created in late 1972 but on the Album Aladdin Sane in 1973
Whoever is posting these classics, keep 'em up . Loved it at 15 years old, and still do!
From watching Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes got me listening to his songs!
Llŷr Jones the gov would approve
FIRE UP THE QUATTRO!
Just finished both of them and want more 😢
TRUST THE GENE GENIE
Same buddy. The Guv would approve
In second year at secondary school 72 Glasgow, hears this for the first time blew our tiny minds!
So close to a UK Number One.
David Bowie is always pushing boundaries and making something new 🎉🎉. He has a unique style and class that is not like anyone else 🎉🎉. He's in a class all by himself. RIP,David you will be truly missed 😢 😔
David Bowie and Mick Ronson: two amazing men. Miss you both
Immense ... I play Bowie covers on YT and hope the band smile from far far away.
I have just put the finishing touches on my time machine!! I'm gonna go back to the 70's!! Anyone wanna come with me?!?
Yeah sure, lemme pack my suitcase real quick
yep !
WAY more wild !
Bowies a ledgend n always will be musical genius. Its a fact his works timeless❤❤❤
This is what started my it for me. My Bowie obsession. Picture the scene, a 13 /14 year old middle class laddie, first disco, local village hall, scrubbed up to the nine and a halves in new clothes, bought just for the occasion. Place packed, DJ plays The Jean Genie. Everyone to a man and woman up on the dance floor, singing and stamping their feet to the riff. Never seen or heard anything like it, thought the wooden floor was going to crash. Instead it was Bowie crash landing into my world and I never looked back. That sense of community, the energy and power of youth has always stayed with me. Thank you Mr David Bowie, you changed my life.
I always like how at 3:02 and for much of the rest of the video, David Bowie sings directly to Mick Ronson. It seems to suggest that he knows he has a good guitarist, who is greatly responsible for the success of his act
David Bowie’s tunes from the 70s were the best. R.I.P to a legend
I think this is the true meaning of GENIUS.
Life changing music since the 70's. Thank you Ziggy. please RIP.
Your amazing work is done here. See you again.
Thanks to the Spiders too, RIP Mick Ronson & Trevor Bolder.
I was 13 years old when this came out, I was blown away , what a song, it kicksass .
me too
me too. i love him
I can’t believe Bowie is gone. I was so serious about my dance career that I gave up a David Bowie concert to train…. I still regret it 20 something years later
What a mother of a tune Aladdin Sane was a top album.
I was 12 when this hit the charts in 1972. I was a Bowie fan. This was absolutely brilliant. Bowies had that many great records, but this is my all time favorite track. Thanks for the music David. Not forgetting his great band, the Spiders. 👍
Could not have said it any better.
This music is so classic. You might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like David Bowie
@@andrewmarcellis2007 thanks mate will have a listen, cheers.
I was 9yo in '72, but I heard this every day for years, thanks to an older sister and her friends!...............Thank you Jill, Linn, Susan, Tricia, the two Louises and the beautifully dusky and exotic Fleur.............
This and "Suffragette City" are the best Bowie songs hands down. I love the heavy Blues style of this era.
I like queen bitch. He was brilliant. No one like him today.
Good observation about the Blues. They “borrowed” the Blues riff. That da da da da riff is Black Blues music. They really should pay at least symbolically a tithe 10 percent of the royalties from this song to a Blues foundation or organization that helps Blues musicians because that Riff is as old as time and is in many Blues songs!
@@dynjarren7523 Bowie stole the bass from Captain Beefheart/Diddly Wah Diddly and the Captain stole it from Bo Diddly. Everybody steals.
suffragette city is one of my top 5 easily
The spiders were my favourite iteration of the bowie band. So great, round and round another classic.
I love this man.
The only other guy that could walk on water……the GREAT David Bowie !!!!!!
Wish that these so-called classic rock FM radio stations would play more songs like this instead of the so very tired worn out crappola they do play way too much. Classic rock song from Bowie!
Yes, way too much Led Zeppelin!
One more time...please play, We Are The Champions, cuz the humans living in Sector A-3 haven’t heard it yet.
Here in Fresno, CA we used to have an “oldies but goodies” station that played everything from the 60s - 80s - and then suddenly it was changed to like like mariachi music. It was about the only good station of classic rock. And we haven’t been driving much so much anymore but when we did, we’d put it on Bowie, or Hamilton”, and even Broadway.
With Stairway To Heaven being the worst offender...
David Bowie The Jean Genie 1972
Very few musicians will I say their a Genius..but there it is..Bowie was Genius no doubt. He is missed
Immense ... I play Bowie covers on YT and hope the band smile from far far away.
Bowie created some unforgetable classics,Mick Ronson gave us first class guitar playing.
Immense ... I play Bowie covers on YT and hope the band smile from far far away.
Forever iconic rest in peace David Bowie and Cyrinda Foxe If you look at David early during the Ziggy stardust era it foreshadows a little bit of another one of my favorite other British rockers and that's my good friend John Waite
Everything's brilliant Bowie done
What an awesome song. What a talent Mick and David !
after his death I had a night of only Bowie music with a friend. We had Jean Gin Tonic Genie and Diamond Hot Dogs. Now he has a dog called Bowie. How a good friend he is.
My wife and I mourned Bowie for a week. Crazy.
The only other that hit me like that was Jerry Garcia.
@@ezekielbrockmann114 thank you for this comment.
The moment I heard David passed away I began to hear David's music for days. Never had that experience before. Crazy what music does.
Mick and David perfect duo rip you two absolute heroes ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️and thank you for making the future
should hear the guitar work on this classic with headphones on.........frickin brilliant rip david 😊
I recall seeing this on T.V. Iwas a junior in high school. Very different, i must say. But totally rocking .Enjoyed the song and Micks quitar playing. I was eighteen yrs. Old.
Watching this video once was simply not enough. Had to watch it three times just to appreciate the extreme "coolness" that is David Bowie and Mick Ronson!!
Immense ... I play Bowie covers on YT and hope the band smile from far far away.
Love Mick Ronson's guitar playing!
so i too.
Furious
Me too
The great Ronno putting his mark on the song - brilliant !
Ronson is why I started playing guitar, when I heard this shit as a little kid I said "That's me"
He was the best out there.
This is the truly greatest ... Period
Very special generation...extraordinary...iconic
Without doubt, one of the all time greats
The Jean Genie, 1973, will always be my favourite David Bowie song, The guitar work of Mick Ronson, is legendary.
1970-1975 is the BEST five years of music by Mr David Robert Jones!
One of the best songs, from a great album, My favorite Bowie track
One of Mr Bowie's best. Great video.
Nothing to say but, WOW WOW WOW!!!
Glam Rock at its peak! In all its glory by Bowie!
why are you styled like how we grew up ?
@@aliadidondiaa8024 Yep
Totally Immense ... I play Bowie covers on YT and hope the band smile from far far away.
@@aliadidondiaa8024 cause I'm old and pic of me when I was 29...I'm 61 today
Great song, remember it well blasting in the car. 72 was such a great year, music too.
One of the great years for music indeed.
I needed a guide for the FM subculture that year being so young and I had none. Took years and years to catch up firsthand. And our blue 1967 Biscayne wagon we bought that year had factory yet non Multiplex F M radio!!!
Love that little riff that Mick Ronson plays in the song at a couple of places- Genius
This beautiful man who sang freely without any restrictions or barriers just being free without letting the critics hold him down. His words were like magic flowing from his mouth entertaining us with music and lyrics with so much meaning. Space Oddity was my first awakening into his music. He is one of the music gods that will always be in our memory.
Adored him than, still do. Miss him so much!!