Last week marked two years since the death of David Bowie. Today, we turn to some of his key collaborative moments. Throughout his career David Bowie was constantly reinventing himself, magpie-picking and absorbing the shiny trinkets of influence and reworking them into his very own sound, look and orbit reassembling … Read more
ο»Ώ Today (2018-01-08 red.) would have been David Bowieβs 71st birthday, and to celebrate, Parlophone is unearthing a previously unreleased demo of his 1983 hit βLetβs Dance.β Recorded in Montreux, Switzerland in 1982 by a makeshift band including Nile Rodgers, Turkish-born guitarist Erdal Kizilcay, and an unidentified local guitarist and … Read more
David BowieΒ was known to be aΒ voraciousΒ reader, famously charting hisΒ top 100Β books for the public in 2013. So it’s fitting that his son, screenwriter and director Duncan Jones, has chosen to honor his late father in a new, communal way: a monthlyΒ book club, beginning with one of his dad’s favorites. “My dad … Read more
If films were made by pulling the lever on a fruit machine to generate a random combination of actors, plot and setting, you would occasionally get a hilarious freak likeΒ Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence. The fact that someone actuallyΒ made a World WarΒ TwoΒ drama starring David Bowie and Takeshi Kitano β with queer … Read more
A new look at the upcoming documentary βDavid Bowie: The Last Five Yearsβ has been revealed by HBO, which will air the film in January. The documentary centers on the final years of Bowieβs remarkable career, focusing mainly on his last two albums, βThe Next Dayβ and βBlackstarβ and on … Read more
