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Selfridges Bowie window installations on V&A FB

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on April 18, 2013

 

“They’ve opened shops down the West End”

 

We told you about the Selfridges David Bowie is all yours: London Concept Store recently.  

Now the V&A FB page has a great photo album of the shop’s window displays along Orchard Street.

The installations pay brilliant homage to Bowie's footwear with particular focus on several of Ziggy's most famous creations in eye-catching Perspex interpretations of the originals.

The Art Deco flavoured fabric used to make the iconic jumpsuit on the sleeve of the Ziggy Stardust album has also been utilised in the upholstery of a few pieces of very desirable

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June is good for Life On Mars?

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on April 16, 2013

 

 

“Mars happy nation”

 

EMI is set to release the fifth in a series of limited edition 40th anniversary 7” picture discs in June.

These anniversary 45s mirror the original UK RCA release schedule from forty years ago.

Here follows the information regarding the release of this particular all-time classic Bowie song.

 

DAVID BOWIE - 40TH ANNIVERSARY LIMITED EDITION 7” PICTURE DISC SINGLE OF ‘LIFE ON MARS?’

Following the announcement of the Record Store Day release of a limited edition ‘Drive-In Saturday’ picture disc, EMI will release a 40th anniversary limited edition 7” picture disc of

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Aladdin Sane 40th global release dates

Submitted by Total Blam Blam
on April 15, 2013

 

“It’s happening now, and tomorrow”

 

Some of you will have got your hands on a copy of the AS40 CD as early as last Friday.

Here follows the worldwide release dates so the rest of you know when it’s available in your CD emporium/iTunes, etc.

 

 

FRIDAY April 12th
Australia
Austria
Benelux
Finland
Germany
Ireland
Netherlands
Norway
Switzerland
Turkey
 
MONDAY April 15th
UK
Arabia
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Denmark
France
Greece
Hungary
India
Mexico
New Zealand
Poland
Portugal
South Africa
South East Asia
 
TUESDAY April 16th
USA
Canada
Italy
Spain
 
WEDNESDAY April 17th
Japan
Sweden
 
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Thirty years of Dance

Submitted by Total Blam Blam
on April 14, 2013

 

“Let me dance dance dance”

 

Though it reached #10 in our recent poll, such was the global success of Let’s Dance it’s possibly the album that most people are familiar with around the world and it remains Bowie's best-selling album.

Produced by David Bowie and Nile Rodgers, Let’s Dance was released on this day (April 14th) in the UK where it spent 13 weeks in the Top 5. The album also made it to #4 on the US chart. 

The attendant singles, Let’s Dance, China Girl and Modern Love were also worldwide smashes and you can remind yourself of the reason why here.

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A lad in fortieth birthday celebrations

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on April 13, 2013

 

“Watching him dash away”

 

Forty years ago on a glam-rocked planet, on April 13th 1973, Aladdin Sane was gifted to the world (see the RCA adverts on the Facebook version of this item for evidence).  

We would clearly be preaching to the converted if we tried to suggest to you how great an album Aladdin Sane is, particularly as the album was voted #5 in a recent poll of Bowie’s studio albums on David Bowie (Official). 

We will be celebrating this and the release of EMI’s Aladdin Sane 40th Anniversary remaster on Monday, with a new contest on the Facebook page.

For the curious among you, the

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