David Bowie’s estate has sold the publishing rights to his “entire body of work” to Warner Chappell Music, including hundreds of songs such as Space Oddity, Changes and Let’s Dance. WCM now has global music publishing rights to his song catalogue, the singer’s estate told the BBC. Variety suggested the deal was worth “upwards of … Read more
HUNKY DORY PICTURE DISC Presale product will be released on Jan 7th. €45,24 Originally released December 1971, Hunky Dory is widely regarded as one of Bowie’s finest. Produced by Ken Scott, and recorded at Trident Studios in London, the album includes many of Bowie’s greatest moments such as ‘Changes’ ‘Life on Mars?’ ‘Oh! You Pretty … Read more
Parlophone Records/ISO Records Plans have been unveiled for two new archival David Bowie box sets that will be released in the coming months. One is the fifth installment in the series of expansive collections focusing on different periods in the late rock icon’s career, Brilliant Adventure (1992–2001), which is due out on November 26. The … Read more
Tracing the star’s encounters with fellow icons throughout his life, We Could Be offers a new history of Bowie, collecting 300 short stories that together paint a portrait of humour, humility, compassion, tragedy and more besides. He embarrasses himself in front of Lennon and Warhol. He saves the life of Nina Simone. He is hated … Read more
Words such as spaceman, alien, androgynous, hero, legend, demigod, herculean lord of art and culture are all synonymous – bar the last few where I got carried away – with David Bowie. The singular thread that links them is a notion that the Starman was cut from a different cloth. The fact of the … Read more
David Bowie gave us so much. Not only did he write and produce some of the most celebrated music of the last 40 years, but he also touched the lives of countless other musicians. His confidence and spiritual pursuit of creativity in all its forms bought a colour to the world its inhabitants hadn’t even realised … Read more
Out of the maelstrom of David Bowie’s life in the 1970s came a new soul-infused sound – a boxset including a previously unreleased album looks at his American phase. Singer David Bowie. Credit © Geoff MacCormack John robinson Sep 7, 2016 When people talk about rapid stylistic change in rock ‘n’ roll, a period often … Read more
