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Cover feature in Saturday’s Libération magazine

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on March 23, 2013

 

 

 

“Speak Chinese, French and Dutch?”

 

Great piece in French Libération newspaper’s magazine today (Saturday 23rd) by Eric Dahan.

The four-page cover feature in celebration of David Bowie is at the V&A is reproduced here, but it’s published in French, naturally.

However, if you’re desperate to get the gist of the piece but don’t read French, then have fun with an online translator, like we did with the concluding paragraph:

“Secluded in his penthouse overlooking Manhattan, the multimedia prophet of an already happened apocalypse and of a mutant future, the pop Zarathoustra who reaffirmed,

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The Next Day vinyl with CD due April 1st

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on March 23, 2013

 

“Just playing that latest record”

 

Just to keep you in the picture and so you don’t think it‘s some kind of cheap April Fool’s Day prank on the day, The Next Day vinyl set will now be released worldwide on April 1st.

Though the delay may disappoint some of you, hopefully the news that the 180 gram, 17-track double vinyl set will include the 17-track CD too will cheer you.  

It's another beautiful Barnbrook-designed package that is a pleasure to behold. Speaking of Jonathan B, here’s an interview with him on the V&A channel that you may not have spotted yet.

One of the zillions of items of

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Hear The Next Day on Spotify now

Submitted by Total Blam Blam
on March 22, 2013

 

“Listen”

 

If for one reason or another you’ve not yet heard The Next Day, you can go check it out on Spotify right now. 

Once it has its hooks in you’re probably not going to want to listen to anything else, but pretty much the whole of the Bowie back catalogue is there if the fancy takes you.

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Low, “Heroes”, Stage and Lodger due as Zeit! box

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on March 22, 2013

 

”As long as we’re together”

 

EMI is repackaging the existing versions of the Low (1977), “Heroes” (1977), Stage (1978) and Lodger (1979) CDs together in a cardboard slipcase, under the box set name of DAVID BOWIE – ZEIT! 77-79.

You may be familiar with this kind of repackage that seems to be a popular method of grouping ’related’ albums together. Check out the superb IDBD for examples. 

The three studio albums here were released between 1977 and 1979 and are generally referred to as the somewhat misleading Berlin Trilogy.

A more unifying theme throughout the three recordings is the

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V&A posts Tilda Swinton’s Bowie Speech

Submitted by Total Blam Blam
on March 21, 2013

 

“We have a nice life”

 

As you’ve no doubt seen or heard, Tilda Swinton was a speaker (along with Sir Paul Ruddock) at a dinner in celebration of David Bowie is at the V&A on Tuesday evening.

The V&A has now posted her speech online, and rather good it is too.

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