The late star’s musical Lazarus — his last project before his death — will open in London this November. Fans are expected to go crazy for the last project Bowie worked on before he died as tickets go on sale next week And despite speculation he wouldn’t be involved, I can confirm that Hollywood star … Read more
Watch them perform “Heroes,” “Suffragette City” with Preservation Hall Jazz Band at Panorama Last night, as their headlining set was ending at Panorama (the New York City festival organized by the same company that throws Coachella), Arcade Fire headed out into the crowd. There, they paid tribute to David Bowie by covering his songs while parading through the crowd … Read more
David Bowie as Jareth the Goblin King in Labyrinth (1986). Photograph: Allstar/Tristar Pictures Growing up, Bowie was as influenced by surrealist art and film as he was by Little Richard and John Coltrane, says Paul Morley One Sunday in spring 2013, when the David Bowie is exhibition was showing at the Victoria and Albert Museum, … Read more
It includes the previously unreleased album The Gouster, remastered editions of Diamond Dog and Young Americans, and more The full details of David Bowie’s Who Can I Be Now? – a box set that collects the rock legend’s works from his 1974 to 1976 “American phase” as well as his unreleased LP The Gouster – … Read more
Born in Brixton in the winter of 1947, the young David Jones grew up first there and in Bromley. They were unremarkable origins for a boy who would be an anti-establishment symbol in his youth but a national icon by the time of his death. From street-brawling working class kid to a wealthy international star … Read more
David Bowie was an innovator to the end – and then beyond the end. Until he died, most of us had never even heard of “direct cremations”, where the coffin goes straight from the hospital to the crematorium and is incinerated without funeral or fuss. No traumatised loved ones watching your coffin being lowered into … Read more
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
