In a message dated 07/08/01 00:06:16 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Nina Simone -- "Wild Is The Wind" is this the saem as the one on Bowie's Station To Station? I love his version (it is the only one I have heard!) >> It is, Colin. The song was first sung, believe it or not, by Johnny Mathis, the theme song to a film of the same name. Bowie's version, which is indeed storming, was heavily indebted to Nina's version, which is proof of her genius, especially when you realise at the end, after that incredible singing and stunning piano playing, that it was recorded live in concert! Something I remember about the Bowie version is that the video that was made for it (although it wasn't released as a single until some seven or eight years after the album came out) featured all white musicans (his superb band at that time were all black), including a pretty woman clutching a saxophone, even though there is no sax on the song, and if there had been, Bowie would have been playing it himself! Ah, those were the days, when some very strange contortions were undertaken to prevent non-caucasian faces getting prominence. Anyone remember that record Mr DJ by The Concept? The DJ performing the monologue was black, the face on the sleeve of the single was... white! Azeem in London
