David Bowie ‘struggled for years’ to tell the story of Ziggy Stardust guitarist Mick Ronson

[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: How David Bowie Arrived at the Addled Splendor of Station to Station

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 β€œastronomic” cocaine, peppers and milk, … Read more

Breaking News :David Bowie Let’s Dance demo released on his birthday

ο»Ώ 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 β€œLet’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’s son is launching an online book club devoted to his father’s favorite reads

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

In praise of Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence: David Bowie’s festive oddity

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 – with queer … Read more