I am a Bowie girl. Not literally: I’m a little too young to have swiped my face with glitter and run out in lime-green platforms to see David Bowie storming through America in 1972 and 1973 with the Spiders from Mars, when he sent queer and alien dispatches across a … Read more
Ava Cherry made music her life. She has sung with some of the biggest names in the industry – Stevie Wonder, Luther Vandross, Chaka Khan, Robert Palmer, and David Bowie. Not only did she work with Bowie, she also had a romantic relationship with her friend. Their adventures together last … Read more
In a dry run for the sci-fi-tinged stardom he’d achieve in the early 70s, young folkie David Bowie wrote his 1969 alienation anthem of an astronaut lost in space In the darkness of Londonβs Casino Cinerama, a 21-year-old David Bowie stared at the space embryo floating across the theatreβs huge, … Read more
One of the most successful duets in Christmas music history — and surely the weirdest — might never have happened if it weren’t for some last-minute musical surgery. David Bowie thought “The Little Drummer Boy” was all wrong for him. So when the producers of Bing Crosby’s Christmas TV special … Read more
DavidΒ filmed introduction to the animated Christmas movie might be one of the least well-known parts of his career. But Bowie was a huge fan of Raymond Briggs, as those involved in the film recall In summer 1984, Iain Harvey was in Londonβs Charlotte Mews, behind the offices of the animation … Read more
As the anniversary of his death approaches, collaborators on the music icon’s off-Broadway show ‘Lazarus’ share accounts of a cancer-stricken artist productive and engaged until the end. Says one, “He never let it define him.” Henry Hey, musical director of the off-Broadway show Lazarus, was struggling late last year to … Read more
