I’m now not even positive where I first spied it, (I believe it was the Facebook page of erstwhile Prong/Killing Joke bassist, Troy Gregory), but it instantly brought a smile to my face. Above we see a cropped version of it. I’m talking, of course, about the image of those recently-departed titans, Bowie & Lemmy.
Given Bowie’s renowned good nature and adventurous ear (and, not for nothing, his professed love of thrash), and Lemmy’s notorious charm and reverence for genuine rock ‘n’ roll, it made absolutely crystalline sense that these two trailblazers would have hit it off, regardless of the significant differences in their respective sounds.
Well, as it turns out, this lovely picture was photoshopped. In the original shots, Bowie is posing with a female vocalist of some kind (I should know, but I don’t, and I don’t really care, if I’m honest), and in the Lemmy shot, he’s pictured with – I believe – a groupie (and oddly wearing a different t-shirt).
This not to say that Bowie and Lem never met, but this isn’t that moment.
In keeping with the same theme, however, some resourceful individual did have the imagination to put this together.
Crank it.
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