David Bowie had everything to prove, but backed by his greatest band and produced by the engineer for The Beatles, he made his first classic album, Hunky Dory January 1971. There was trouble in outer space. Major Tom’s signal was growing fainter by the day. And Ziggy Stardust was still an undefined blip on the … Read more
BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC Radio 4 have announced Bowie Five Years On, a series of programmes to celebrate David Bowie’s life and work on the fifth anniversary of his passing. Since his death, David Bowie’s sales and streams have continued strongly thanks to a reissues campaign from Warner Music. The 2016 Legacy collection … Read more
With the option of hindsight, it can be very easy to add extra gravitas to a particular performance or single moment. Yet, even without the knowledge of David Bowie’s sad passing, this performance of ‘Life on Mars’ is a deeply emotive and passionate affair capable of inducing goosebumps. Below, we’re bringing you the final performance … Read more
David Bowie’s collaboration with Bing Crosby on ‘Little Drummer Boy/Peace On Earth’ is one of the weirdest things that you’ll ever watch. However, despite the strange meeting of these two resoundingly different worlds, the duet somehow manages to melt the heart. Despite the atrocious acting on show from both Bowie and Crosby, all is forgotten by … Read more
A new live album from David Bowie is coming to the stores near you. Titled No Trendy Réchauffé (Live Birmingham 95), the footage was recorded at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre on 13th December, 1995 as part of the Big Twix Mix Show festival. The album also features a second version of ‘Hallo Spaceboy’ which was intended … Read more
Visconti recounts the making of David’s The Man Who Sold the World By Mark McStea (guitarworld.com) (Image credit: Michael Putland/Getty Images) 50 years on from its release, the former David Bowie bassist and uber-producer tells the story of one of Bowie’s greatest albums, and the enduring influence of Mick Ronson David Bowie’s third album, The … Read more
By Paul Brannigan (Classic Rock) Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford revisits a spring 1973 date with Ziggy Stardus For an entire generation of music fans, U2 frontman Bono and Def Leppard vocalist Joe Elliott among them, witnessing David Bowie performing Starman, the first single from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, on Top Of The Pops on July … Read more
