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David Bowie: Secret Signs Update: Salman Rushdie
I've now read Salman Rushdie's novel 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet,' and have learned that in it David Bowie is actually mentioned (on p.377) in a significant way. The relevent excerpt below is from a description of people hanging out at a place called Sam's Pleasure Island':
'..Hey, the space gods are in tonight. There's a guitar hero who was born on an asteroid in the general vicinity of Mars. There's Sun Ra, another alien. There's the thin limey who used to work as a UFO spotter after he fell to earth.
And there's Neil. Neil from the Silver Spaceships. Neil, the living proof that there's rock 'n' roll on other planets..'
John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten has been taking an interest in aliens and conspiracies. More details are in the long article Joe Firmage and Johnny Rotten Plus Bob and Ryan Wood Plus Majic Twelve.
Star Communion Report 1 Update: Frank Smythe
In the section of this report on Sir Francis Younghusband, I mention his friend, the mountain explorer/photographer/writer, Frank Smythe. In his much-praised 'Younghusband' biography, Patrick French said that Frank Smythe, who died in 1949, '..was a practitioner of automatic writing and often spotted flying saucers'; but he gave no further information about this, or source.
Since compiling 'Star Communion Report 1,' I've come across three seperate book references to a sighting that Frank Smythe had of two unidentified 'dark objects floating in the blue sky' during the course of his Everest ascent, in April 1933. According to his account, originally published in 'Adventures of a Mountaineer': '..In shape they resembled kite balloons, except that one appeared to possess short, squat wings. As they hovered motionless, they seemed to pulsate in and out as though they were breathing..'
UFO Historical Review Issue #5 article about this sighting
Details of Star Communion Report 1
My Response to Kathy Westmoreland's comments about Elvis Double Story
In the previous bulletin, I included the text of an exchange of e-mails between myself and Kathy Westmoreland, about an article by Todd Slaughter, which had seemed to imply that another man performed onstage in place of Elvis Presley on occasions during 1977, and maybe earlier. Here's my response to what Kathy Westmoreland wrote:
Firstly, in his article, Todd Slaughter revealed that he had met Elvis Presley during the final year, and he seemed to me to be implying that these meetings informed the 'secret' that the article was hinting at. The article did not read to me like a wild story that someone would dream up - it was, rather, seeming to suggest something through descriptions of facts, circumstances and events, while paradoxically claiming that this 'something' would always remain undiscloseable. I've never read a similar article about Elvis Presley, therefore I do not think it is appropriate to bracket it along with "wild stories" that "people dream up.." (whatever Kathy Westmoreland may be referring to here - possibly the sort of articles that would be printed in National Enquirer, written - unlike Todd Slaughter's article - for financial gain).
Secondly, there is other information, that I cannot easily dismiss, which tends to support the theory of an 'Elvis Imposter' performing in concert. Even if this is far from being proof, I think it sufficiently compelling when combined with Todd Slaughter's 'Two Of Two' article, for me to keep an open mind:
At Elvis Presley's concert at Rapid City, June 21st 1977, filmed for the CBS TV Special -
About 5 minutes and 15 seconds into this show, Elvis (or 'Elvis') says: "See, I'm actually a puppet.."
12 minutes into the show, Elvis (or 'Elvis') says: "I'm gonna actually play the guitar, I know three chords believe it or not.. but I faked 'em all for a long time.."
19 minutes into the show, Elvis (or 'Elvis') says: "Good evening, Ladies and Gentleman, my name is Wayne Newton.."
In all three of these quotes from the first twenty minutes of the concert, the star performer at this Elvis Presley concert is telling us that he is actually, in significant ways, not what we have thought him to be - we, the audience, did not think that he was "a puppet"; we did not think that he ever "faked" playing guitar chords, and we did not think he was "Wayne Newton," the best-known Elvis Presley impersonator at the time. These onstage comments surely demand our attention, as they share this underlying consistency of implied message: the message of not being authentic, not being 'the real deal'/'the genuine article'... (call it what you will).
So, we have the 'Two Of Two' article, and we have these curious statements, that may or may not be symptomatic of the performer onstage being an imposter. But, then, we also have the comments made by Linda Thompson ten years afterwards, on the BBC TV documentary 'Presley,' speaking about the CBS TV Special:
"You know I left him eight months before his death and I didn't see him for those last eight months. I talked to him on the phone but I didn't see him and when I saw his last performance, I was inconsolable - it didn't look like the same human being that I had known for all those years."
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