David rehearsing for The glass spider Tour in early 1987 The band spent 12-hours-a-day in rehearsals in New York before moving on to Europe. Bowie described his rehearsal routine:
I prepare the day's work when I get up in the morning, and then I go in around 10 o'clock (a.m.) for rehearsals. Then it's constant rehearsals, both the visual side and the musical side, through about 8 o'clock (p.m.). At around 8 p.m. I look at the video tapes of what we've been doing during the day, and make adjustments if necessary. So there really isn't time to do anything else at all except Sundays, and then I sleep for most of the day. It's very intensive rehearsals, and physically it's quite demanding.
“Shining Star (Makin' My Love)” From Davids 1987 Album Never Let Me Down' Never Let Me Down which is the seventeenth studio album by Bowie, released on 20 April 1987 on the label EMI America. Bowie conceived the album as the foundation for a theatrical world tour, writing and recording most of the songs in Switzerland. He considered the record a return to rock and roll music. Three singles were released from the album, "Day-In Day-Out", "Time Will Crawl" and "Never Let Me Down", which all reached the UK Top 40.
After his bona fide dance-pop success of the early 1980s, thanks to "Let's Dance," Bowie turned back to a relatively stripped-down approach for his 1987 solo album, Never Let Me Down. The record turned out to occupy a strange space in his catalog — meandering and not exactly cohesive, it succeeded commercially while being underrated by fans. One of the shining moments on that effort comes courtesy of an unexpected cameo by actor Mickey Rourke. In the middle of "Shining Star (Makin' My Love)," an exploration of anxiety and global disaster over proto-Big Beat electronics, Rourke provides a guest rap(!) that comes off like a jazzy catalog of society's ills.
Actor Mickey Rourke asked Bowie to be involved in one of the songs, the two having met in London where Rourke was based while filming the movie A Prayer for the Dying. Bowie had him perform the mid-song rap to the song "Shining Star (Makin' My Love)." Bowie jokingly referred to Rourke's performance as "method rapping". Bowie described the song as one that "reflects back-to-street situations, and how people are trying to get together in the face of so many disasters and catastrophes, socially around them, never knowing if they're going to survive it themselves. The one thing they have got to cling on to is each other; although it might resolve into something terrible, it's the only thing that they've got. It’s just a little love song coming out of that environment." He rejected the notion that his "high, little" voice (which he attributed to Smokey Robinson) in the song was a new character (to follow behind Ziggy Stardust or the Thin White Duke), instead saying it was just what the song needed, as he had tried the song in his regular voice and did not like the outcome: "That never bothered me, changing voices to suit a song. You can fool about with it."[9] "Shining Star" was one of Bowie's early choices to be a single for the album, but EMI had the final say and did not release the song as a single. A 12" remix of the song was made available on iTunes when the "Never Let Me Down" EP was released digitally for the first time in 2007.
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