David Bowie died in 2016, but he is still on tour, selling out shows around the world. An exhibition of audio, video, costumes, and a remarkable trove of personal mementos from the archives of the late-musician’s career, assembled under the title David Bowie Is landed in the late-musicians’ adopted hometown … Read more
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″] [et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] A British filmmaker is hoping a new documentary on the life of late guitarist Mick Ronson will shed light on the artist who helped David Bowie achieve superstardom. A British filmmaker is hoping a new documentary on the life of late guitarist … Read more
Released 42 years ago this week, the album conjured the Thin White Duke from an Aryan alter-ego, cocaine, a mental breakdown, and a desperate search for meaning. David Bowie’s grandest masterpiece, Station to Station, was released 42 years ago this week, its creation fueled by “astronomic” cocaine, peppers and milk, … Read more
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
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
