Today (2018-01-08 red.) would have been David Bowie’s 71st birthday, and to celebrate, Parlophone is unearthing a previously unreleased demo of his 1983 hit “Let’s Dance.” 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 Bowie was known to be a voracious reader, famously charting his top 100 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 monthly 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 like Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence. The fact that someone actually made a World War Two drama starring David Bowie and Takeshi Kitano – with queer … Read more
A new look at the upcoming documentary “David Bowie: The Last Five Years” has been revealed by HBO, which will air the film in January. The documentary centers on the final years of Bowie’s remarkable career, focusing mainly on his last two albums, “The Next Day” and “Blackstar” and on … Read more
‘Dead Ringers’ star Jon Culshaw will portray the late artist in the forthcoming programme, which will air next month A new BBC radio drama will dramatise the making of David Bowie‘s final studio album, ‘Blackstar’. The late artist released his twenty-fifth and final album on January 8, 2016, which coincided … Read more
