Fact #191961
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David Bowie holds his 50th birthday concert in Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA. Guests joining Bowie for this event include Robert Smith of The Cure, Frank Black, Billy Corgan, Dave Grohl, Lou Reed and Sonic Youth. After the show, Bowie's wife Iman hosts a post-concert dinner at the downtown space of Julian Schnabel with guests including Beck, Moby, Courtney Love, Prince, Charlie Sexton, Fred Schneider, Matt Dillon, Matthew Modine, Jeffrey Wright, Christopher Walken, and Michael Wincott, Donna Karan and Naomi Campbell.
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Robert Smith : In January 1997 I was invited to sing a David Bowie's 50th birthday concert in New York and I'd gone over a couple of days early to rehearse and spend some time with the people there. I got talking to his guitarist, Reeves Gabrels, and David's producer, Mark Plati. Coincidentally, Mark was a big Cure fan and during the week I spent in new York we spent time together and agreed it would be good to do something musically.
The Cure were just about to bring out the second volume of singles from the last ten years - Galore - and I wanted to put a new single on there. I'd written something I thought would work so I went to the studio with Reeves and Mark and that's how Wrong Number came about. I had the music but, lyrically, it was based on a phone call I had in New York and the conversation that formed the song took place in the course of me getting to know Reeves and Mark, which is why I wanted to do it with them. Time and place all just seemed to tie in together.
It was the last single we released. It did well in America and made the Top Ten in European countries. The voice at the end saying 'Sorry, wrong number' is the wife of a friend that we rang out of the blue. We purposely asked for the wrong name and she said, 'Sorry, wrong number,' right on cue.
(Source : interview in the book Inspirations by Michael Randolfi, Mike Read and David Stark, published by Sanctuary)
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The Cure were just about to bring out the second volume of singles from the last ten years - Galore - and I wanted to put a new single on there. I'd written something I thought would work so I went to the studio with Reeves and Mark and that's how Wrong Number came about. I had the music but, lyrically, it was based on a phone call I had in New York and the conversation that formed the song took place in the course of me getting to know Reeves and Mark, which is why I wanted to do it with them. Time and place all just seemed to tie in together.
It was the last single we released. It did well in America and made the Top Ten in European countries. The voice at the end saying 'Sorry, wrong number' is the wife of a friend that we rang out of the blue. We purposely asked for the wrong name and she said, 'Sorry, wrong number,' right on cue.
(Source : interview in the book Inspirations by Michael Randolfi, Mike Read and David Stark, published by Sanctuary)