"What In The World?"
The Next Day has gone straight to the top of 40 different countries’ iTunes charts and it’s also Top 10 on iTunes in another 10 countries.
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“I look to the stars”
And you though we posted a young picture of David Jones yesterday. In this detail from a contact sheet of 48 different images, the baby Bowie is pictured at just ten months old.
The wee nipper is undeniably looking to the stars in the selected frames (well, 1947 was the year of the Roswell incident), and that’s our tenuous link to today’s lyric, Boss Of Me, track number nine from The Next Day.
As we’ve suggested previously, we will endeavour to provide a daily marriage of lyrics from The Next Day to images from the upcoming David Bowie is Exhibition at The V&A.
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"Hang him on my wall..."St Pauls Gallery in the UK is proud to add another David Bowie print to their collection of fine art poster prints.We can exclusively reveal that their latest print is the David Bowie ‘The Archer’ Fine Art Poster Print hand-signed by David Bowie and photographer John Robert Rowlands. (Pictured)This iconic image of David Bowie as The Thin White Duke was taken by renowned Rock photographer, John Rowlands, on February 26th, 1976, at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Canada.Having seen the previous evening's show on the 1976 Station To Station / Isolar Tour,Filed under:
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“Switch on the TV we may pick him up on channel two”
There has been a pretty impressive billboard and press campaign in the run up to the release of The Next Day.
We’ve decided to post just a few of the more interesting ones over the coming days on here and on the David Bowie (Official) Facebook page.
The one pictured here is of French origin and utilises the BBC 2 television test card.
But it’s not just any old test card, this is yer actual test card for the BBS channel two, as favoured by one Ziggy Stardust, in the song Starman.
Now that’s either close attention to detail or serendipity.
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“This time tomorrow I'll know what to do”
Page twelve of today’s Observer newspaper in the UK is carrying the third and final advert of Jonathan Barnbrook’s clever full-page ad campaign for The Next Day.
Those of you of a certain age may remember the original “Heroes“ music press advert from 1977, which today’s Observer ad obviously references.
The Next Day is released in the following countries tomorrow:
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“I’m seventeen my looks can prove it”
Actually, the teenage David Jones is only sixteen in this picture, a promotional shot taken in 1963 during a Kon-rads’ photo session with Roy Ainsworth.
OK, so we’re on to I’d Rather Be High, track number eight from The Next Day and the story of a young man who’d prefer to be in the shoes of the teenager pictured here than the ones he’s in.
As we said yesterday, we’ve decided to try and illustrate each set of lyrics with images from the upcoming David Bowie is Exhibition at The V&A.
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"And the next day, And the next"
Further congratulations are due to David Bowie for the continued success of his new album.
The Deluxe version of The Next Day has entered the iTunes album chart at #1 in 21 countries around the globe, as you can see from the accompanying graphic.
Thanks again to everybody who has bought the album thus far, both in the digital and physical formats, couldn’t do it without your support.
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“I could wear your new blue shoes”
With this track we’re half way through The Next Day and on to the words for If You Can See Me.
Though many of you have them allready, we'll continue posting more lyrics for now.
Pretty much all of Jonathan Barnbrook‘s album cover artwork has been revealed one way or another, not least of all on his blog.
So we decided we would try and post some vaguely-relevant-to-the-lyrics images from the upcoming David Bowie is Exhibition at The V&A.
Pictured today are the blue, blue, ’lectric blue boots that Bowie wore for Mick Rock’s Pin-Ups album cover session.
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“Times, is waiting in the wings”
The Times newspaper in the UK are carrying another of Jonathan Barnbrook’s intriguing full-page adverts for The Next Day on Saturday.
It‘s possible that you can‘t make out the advert at the size reproduced here, but it‘s simply all of Bowie‘s lyrics for the 17-track deluxe version of the album. Cool eh?
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“Painting our faces”
Read on for details regarding the cover of the beautiful new V&A Magazine cover.
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