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Influential almost as much for its legend as its actual music, David Bowie’s ‘Berlin trilogy’ of 1977-79 reaches further afield than the name might suggest. Not that the city didn’t give Bowie enough to work with. “Heroes”, with its monochrome cover portrait, Brian Eno’s synthesiser strategies and Robert Fripp’s metallic guitars 
– all recorded at Hansa By The 
Wall studios under the gaze of 
an observation tower – 
was the sort of aesthetic 
to capture the imagination 
of a generation. Bowie in Berlin is a mesmerising, if slightly chilly story, which his 2013 comeback single, “Where Are We Now?”...

Changestwobowie and Aladdin Sane repressed on coloured vinyl David Bowie‘s long deleted singles compilation Changestwobowie – the lesser-known sequel to Changesonebowie – will be reissued by Parlophone on April 13 on CD, vinyl and digital formats. Some of the initial run of 180g vinyl editions will come on blue vinyl (distributed randomly) before reverting to the standard black vinyl. CHANGESTWOBOWIE Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?) Oh! You Pretty Things Starman 1984 Ashes To Ashes* Sound And Vision Fashion* Wild Is The Wind John, I’m Only Dancing (Again) 1975 D.J.* *single versions Following a week later on April 20, Aladdin Sane will...

Includes previously unreleased 1978 live album Welcome To The Blackout Record Store Day (April 21) will see the release of three new David Bowie vinyls featuring rare and unreleased material. Welcome To The Blackout (Live London ’78) is a 3xLP live set from Bowie‘s Isolar II tour, recorded at Earls Court, London on June 30 and July 1 1978 by Tony Visconti. It was mixed by Bowie and David Richards at Mountain Studios, Montreux, in January 1979 but never officially released. “Let’s Dance (Full-Length Demo)” is a 45rpm 12″ featuring the full version of the “Let’s Dance” demo that...

2016 was a cruel year that claimed the lives of Leonard Cohen and David Bowie, two musicians of iconic stature. Both men knew they were dying and each chose to record a final album to express the experience. YouTuber Polyphonic analyzed how each man faced this challenge. Cohen took a more religious route, both cursing and praising a higher being in the title track “You Want It Darker” with the Hebrew phrase “Hineni” (Here I Am). Bowie reinvented himself one last time as “Blackstar“, while a bejeweled skeleton in a space suit became a god to a new society...

Investigate these seven intriguing facts about Bowie’s spacey first hit single Earlier this year, the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame officially announced its 2018 class of inductees. The list includes classic recordings such as Public Enemy’s “Fight The Power,” Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You,” and the Rolling Stones‘ “Paint It Black,”  among others. Also among the class of new inductees is David Bowie‘s singularly spacey early hit, “Space Oddity.” Originally released in 1969, right around the time of the momentous Apollo 11 moon landing, the song captured the sentiment of our global fascination with humanity’s strange journey to reach...