With a career that dated nearly 48 years and a reputation as rock’s greatest chameleon, David Bowie has managed to team with the best and brightest of every generation’s rising underground — glammers, punkers, art-proggers, disco masters, rappers, R&B stars, industrial brooders, electronica blippers and contemporary indie rockers. But that doesn’t mean he’s not down to … Read more
David Bowie’s forthcoming box set, ‘Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976),’ will include his unreleased ‘The Gouster’ album “Its meaning was attitude, an attitude of pride and hipness,” Bowie collaborator Tony Visconti says of album title A new David Bowie box set is in the works. The follow-up to last year’s Five Years (1969-1973) box … Read more
It seems the internet will never run out of wonderful David Bowie treats – and we are totally down with that. A 25-minute audio clip of a rehearsal from his 1995 ‘Outside’ tour, which promoted the album of the same name, has now emerged on Soundcloud. This period was something of an oddity for Bowie, … Read more
Senior specialist in modern & post-war British Art at Sotheby’s, Simon Hucker, told 5 live Drive that David Bowie was interested in artists that were ‘out-of-fashion’ or ‘forgotten’ which is why he was attracted to ‘British art’ over ‘American paintings’. Bowie’s collection also included pieces from some of Britain’s biggest modern artists including Henry Moore … Read more
This 1987 performance actually played a tiny role in bringing down the Berlin Wal It would be an wild exaggeration to suggest that David Bowie brought down the Berlin Wall, but 29 years ago this week, on June 7th, 1987, his concert in West Berlin did play a role in the monumental event two years … Read more
For some unexplained reason, the Republican National Convention house band also played this cocaine-fueled tune in Cleveland on July 18th The house band at the Republican National Convention – led by former Saturday Night Live bandleader G.E. Smith – raised some eyebrows when they played David Bowie’s “Station To Station” early on in the festivities … Read more
David Bowie was a consummate entertainer, and his enthusiasm for his live stage shows came through in this ET flashback, as the rockstar prepared to launch his 1987 Glass Spider Tour. “I try and do something I want to go and see really, that’s the essence of whatever I do,” Bowie told ET at the … Read more
