David Bowie News Of The World

Band releases video for “Heroes” for song’s 40th anniversary When Depeche Mode recorded a number of songs on New York City’s High Line public park ahead of the release of their latest LP, Spirit, one of the numbers they tackled was an impassioned cover of David Bowie’s enduring hit “Heroes.” They’ve made the tune … Read more

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] Exclusive: Carlos Alomar on Bowie’s Berlin “sadness”; Tony Visconti on the resurrection of Lodger, in the MOJO magazine out in the UK from Tuesday, September 26. DAVID BOWIE ALWAYS HAD a problem with Lodger. “We both felt the mix sounded thin and muddy,” producer Tony Visconti tells … Read more

I was born a few years after World War II and lived with my parents in a nice house in a suburb southeast of London – Bromley, in Kent. My parents got married after the war simply because that’ s what everybody did. The government gave a generous allowance for … Read more

Soon after David Bowie proposed to supermodel Iman in 1992, they attended a party in Midtown. Former Bowie backup singer and ex-flame Ava Cherry was there, and remembers the dazzling diamond that Iman flaunted. “She said, ‘David and I are engaged. This is the ring he got me,’ ” Cherry told … Read more

The expansive musical catalogue of the late David Bowie reached its one billionth stream on Spotify last week, according to a recent post on the rock legend’s Facebook page. With the popular music, podcast and video streaming subscription service having launched in October 2008, the milestone only took Bowie, who passed … Read more

There are surprisingly few good books about the late star – but, as a newcollection of reminiscences by friends is published, we pick out the heroes of the Bowieography Alongside the supremely well-read Bob Dylan, David Bowie was probably popular music’s most bookish star. Christopher Isherwood was an obvious influence … Read more