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 … Read more
DAVID BOWIE (WITH JOHN ‘HUTCH’ HUTCHINSON) THE ‘MERCURY’ DEMOS 1 LP BOX SET FEATURING PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED DAVID BOWIE RECORDINGS RELEASED ON PARLOPHONE 28th JUNE 2019 Parlophone will issue some more David Bowie unreleased demos at the end of June. The Mercury Demos features ten demo recordings from spring 1969, nine of which are previously … Read more
FAR OUT STAFF ,APRIL 16, 2019 Todd Alcott, an American screenwriter, playwright, actor, and director, has accidentally managed to turn his hobby into a thrilling new side project. Having initially begun creating pulp fiction book covers as a fun act of creativity, Alcott’s work began to gain recognition as fans … Read more
A demo believed to be the first recording of David Bowie’s hit song Starman is being put up for auction. The 1971 tape had been packed away in a box and “totally forgotten about” for almost 50 years. Bowie can be heard on the demo telling guitarist Mick Ronson he … Read more
Major Tom has left the planet, and I can think of no better tribute to music legend David Bowie than an excerpt from producer Ken Scott’s memoir Abbey Road To Ziggy Stardust (which I had the pleasure of co-writing) about the making of what may be Bowie’s most enduring work – The Rise … Read more
This is the David Bowie story you don’t know. The story of how David Robert Jones became David Bowie, how David Bowie became Ziggy Stardust and how Ziggy became immortal, changing the musical landscape as he did so. The story that finally makes sense of one of the greatest icons … Read more
