dang 7 days ago

As a card-carrying member of his fan club I must mention the great, and tragically departed, Klaus Nomi:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22klaus+nomi%2...

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DonHopkins 6 days ago

I've got that card in my wallet too, alongside my Leigh Bowery Fan Club Card and Nina Hagen Fan Club Card!

Let's hope lightning strikes again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJdljxrvPqo

Here's "The Nomi Song" documentary of his amazing and tragically short life:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0PszBID3Lk

It covers the story behind his epic SNL performance with Joey Arias and David Bowie:

https://youtu.be/W0PszBID3Lk?t=2038

"So, to get ready for Saturday Night Live, he said to Bowie, 'Well so what are you doing, what's going to happen? Are you doing a staging, or are you doing costumes? What are you doing?'"

"And he said, 'Yeah, and they're making me this copy of a Tristan Tzara design from some performance art thing from the 30's.' So we look at this thing, and it's, it's beautiful."

https://lemodalogue.com/2017/07/31/histoire-dun-costume-dada...

Page Wood, Nomi's Art Director:

"I remember Pat Gibbons, who was Bowie's manager at the time. He comes up and he goes, 'Well you're going to have to have something. You're going to have some costumes.'"

"And he whips out a big wad of cash, and he goes, 'How much do you need?', and he starts peeling off bills. And Joey and Klaus look at him, and their eyes widen, and they look at each other, and they go, 'We're going to need shoes, too.'"

One of my favorite performances of all time, The Man Who Sold The World lyric "We must have died alone, a long long time ago." was especially poignant given Nomi's sad fate.

At 1:42 in this video, just after that tragic lyric, Blondie's keyboardist Jimmy Destri stares gothically up into the camera.

https://donhopkins.com/home/nomi/DavidBowieAndKlausNomi-TheM...

Then they did "TVC15":

https://www.davidbowieworld.nl/david-bowie-tvc-15/

>[TVC15] was inspired by an episode in which Iggy Pop, during a drug-fueled period at Bowie’s LA home, hallucinated and believed the television set was swallowing his girlfriend. Bowie developed a story of a holographic television, TVC 15. In the song, the narrator’s girlfriend crawls into the television and afterwards, the narrator desires to crawl in himself to find her.

https://donhopkins.com/home/nomi/DavidBowieAndKlausNomi-TVC1...

Finally right the end of the live performance of "Boys Keep Swinging", Bowie pulled one over on the censors by whipping out his puppet penis on live TV, and then grinning impishly!

https://donhopkins.com/home/nomi/DavidBowieAndKlausNomi-Boys...

The night David Bowie brought a nude puppet to SNL:

https://www.avclub.com/read-this-the-night-david-bowie-broug...