Each disguised and silhouetted "BOWIE" answeredquestions from the fans and those users in the Convention Center voted forwhom they believed to be the real BOWIE. The conference was simultaneously held in CompuServe's Convention Center andon the World Wide Web. It featured the three DAVID BOWIEs, two in disguise (and both telling lies). The unique online conference was picked up by TV news across the country. by RCA in November and BMGEntertainment International will also make it commerically available to allits other territories later this year.)įor the September 11 launch, BOWIE was joined at a secret New York Citylocation by two imposters: BOWIE guitarist Reeves Gabrels and Patrick Briggs,outrageous frontman for Psychotica, the BOWIE-influenced group who werefeatured on the main stage of this summer's Lollapalooza tour. (Note: "Telling Lies" will be releasedcommerically on vinyl and CD in the U.K. All three versions will be availablein this new, improved format and also Macromedia's Shockwave Audio, plus adownloadable CD-Quality stereo file. This Wednesday's release will also premier Progressive Network's new 3.0Real Audio player, which means the sound quality of the streamed audio willbe superior to anything heard so far. Two completely different versions of the song (the first is the "Feelgood"jungle mix by David Bowie and Mark Plati, while the second was mixed by danceguru Adam F.) will also be made available to fans exclusively via theInternet on September 18 and September 25 respectively, both at 11:00 pm ET.
In the first four days ofits Internet release, there were more than 46,000 downloads of thetrack-over 10,000 per day-which means the website's server is running at over 300,000 hits per day for the last sevendays. This hybrid of rock and undergrounddance rhythms remixed by A Guy Called Gerald isn't available in any store ordistributed to any radio station in North America. It's aquote that summed up the extraordinary Internet event which tookplace at the singer's official web site, http//:That's where BOWIE-in an unprecedented move-exclusively released his newlyrecorded song "Telling Lies" on the net. "I often plunge myself into the deep end of asituation just to see whathappens," said DAVID BOWIE to his fans on the night of September 11. Bowie impostor conference on Compuserve a huge success, but who is the realDavid Bowie?.Two different versions of the song also to be unveiled exclusively onofficial David Bowie website, the first on September 18, the other onSeptember 25, both at 11:00 PM EST.5,000 downloads within first hours of September 11 launch.
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