Mockney accents and drug-smuggling bunnies: rare David Bowie songs to be auctioned

Reel-to-reel tape featuring three unreleased songs expected to sell for more than £10,000 A reel-to-reel tape featuring three esoteric and previously unreleased David Bowie songs is to be auctioned at Omega Auctions in Merseyside town Newton-le-Willows on 21 May. The tape is expected to sell for more than £10,000. It features four songs recorded in 1966 and … Read more

David Bowie’s Orwell: how Nineteen Eighty-Four shaped Diamond Dogs

David Bowie’s Orwell: how Nineteen Eighty-Four shaped Diamond Dogs   Dorian Lynskey tells the tale of how it (almost) inspired a rock musical Read other extracts from his book on the novel’s history: • Big Brother’s long shadow: the legacy of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four • ‘He typed in bed in his dressing gown’: how Orwell wrote Nineteen … Read more