Madness paid a special tribute to the “great, great David Bowie” as they brought their Glastonbury Festival set to a close with his 1971 hit Kooks. Beneath the Aladdin Sane lightning bolt suspended above the Pyramid Stage, frontman and radio DJ Suggs said he wanted to celebrate the late music … Read more
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An orchestra will pay tribute to David Bowie at Glastonbury this weekend, performing the ‘Heroes Symphony’ album released by composer Philip Glass in 1996. The festival first said it’d pay tribute to the late singer in March, although the exact details were kept under wraps. We now know that conductor … Read more
David Bowie’s wife Iman has posted a picture of her late husband with their daughter to mark Father’s Day. The photo shows Bowie holding the couple’s daughter, Alexandria “Lexi” Zahra Jones, when she was a baby. “Happy Fathers Day #LexiLove,” Iman wrote. Lexi, the couple’s only child, was born in … Read more
David Bowie ranks as high in our electric churchβs Afrofuturist pantheon of demiurges as Jimi Hendrix, George Clinton, and Miles Davis. Thatβs for his outrageous aristocratic style, not-just-skin-deep soul, badass brinksmanship, and all-around Alter-Negrocity. Not to mention the Starmanβs own sui generis take on The Funk. Bowie remains that rarity … Read more
In 1983, David Bowie slinked onto movie screens in The Hunger, a stylish (though, if weβre being honest, not that great) spin on the vampire mythos that found him playing a nightclub prowler whoβs shocked to discover heβs suddenly growing older. Gazing upon his encroaching liver spots and wrinkles, no … Read more
