On Sept. 22, 1972, David Bowie brought Ziggy Stardust to the Cleveland Music Hall on the opening night of the U.S. leg of his tour. His album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars had been released three months earlier; this was America’s first-ever glimpse of the … Read more
In England, David Bowie may become—may already be—a real star, but in the American context he looks more like an aesthete using stardom as a metaphor. I’m not entirely happy with this conclusion; it seems almost ungrateful. A week ago, I went to see Bowie’s New York début at Carnegie Hall … Read more
Florence Welch hosts the documentary, featuring appearances from Iggy Pop, Brian Eno, and Tony Visconti This weekend, BBC World Service celebrated the 40th anniversary of David Bowie’s album “Heroes” with a new documentary hosted by Florence Welch of Florence , features anecdotes from Iggy Pop, Brian Eno, producer Tony Visconti, and archival interviews with Bowie himself. … Read more
various takes of Sense of Doubt, Blackout and Heroes.
David Bowie performing live in 1978. A new box set collects all of Bowie’s albums released between 1977 and 1982 In 1980, David Bowie was in the middle of a new kind of transformation. After launching himself to stardom in 1969 with his first hit single, “Space Oddity,” he spent a decade … Read more
Beside the Berlin Wall, Bowie made music to uplift the world Fully settled in Berlin, with a work system established and in a far better place, physically and emotionally, than he’d been in years, David Bowie completed the second LP in his Berlin Trilogy quickly and efficiently. He began right after wrapping Lust … Read more
