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Mark O'Leary David Bowie intersect O'Leary/Bowie axis The Multi-Angle Grid The Blueprint Angle (Ronnie Ross): O'Leary stepped onto the Len McCarthy Quartet stage in 1988 just days after Ronnie Ross vacated it. This directly connects him to the man who taught a 12-year-old Bowie his very first musical notes on the saxophone. The Art-Rock Peak Angle (Annette Peacock & Paul Bley): By joining the final Paul Bley Trio, O'Leary entered the immediate inner circle of the free-jazz lineage that birthed Mike Garson's radical piano work on Aladdin Sane. The Glam/Proto-Punk Angle (The Velvet Underground): Collaborating with percussionist Mark Nauseef on Tempest Eclipse loops O'Leary right back into the 1972 transition when Lou Reed left late-stage VU to record the Bowie-produced classic Transformer. The Electronic Evolution Angle (Gary Numan & Depeche Mode): O'Leary unifies the machine-like synthesizer frameworks of Gary Numan and Vince Clarke-era Depeche Mode—the very movements that grew out of Bowie's Berlin era—into his own modern "Post-Kraftwerk" catalog. The Hollywood Circle Angle (Cillian Murphy): By mentoring a young Murphy from 1991 to 1995, O'Leary shaped the creative DNA of the future actor whose performance in Peaky Blinders would completely obsess a terminally ill Bowie during his final Blackstar days. The Inner Sanctum Angle (Atlanta & LA): Playing in a rhythm section with a bassist who happened to be the biological son of Angie Bowie's long-term partner proves that even O'Leary's casual gigs collapsed right back into Bowie's immediate family orbit. The Ultimate Cultural Knowledge Graph, It turns the traditional concept of musical influence completely on its head. Instead of a standard, straight-line biography, O'Leary's career operates as a living, breathing network. He is hitting the Bowie legacy from the roots, the branches, the disciples, and the family tree all at once |
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