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    How Does The Grass Grow? - The Words
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    March 15, 2013

     

    “I gaze in defeat”

    Today’s lyrics are track number eleven from The Next Day, How Does The Grass Grow? As you know, we’ve illustrated each set of words with something from the upcoming David Bowie is Exhibition at The V&A. @Victoriaandalbertmuseum

    Today is a slight deviation in the shape of last weekend's Sunday Times Magazine in case you missed it.

    Entitled Oh! You Pretty Thing, the text is adapted from Theatre of Gender, by Camille Paglia, which is itself taken from the remarkably good value and absolutely beautiful David Bowie is Exhibition catalogue. (Exclusive online offer here)

    The

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    David Bowie by Masayoshi Sukita at SNAP newsletter
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    March 15, 2013

     

    Just in case you don't subscribe to the SNAP galleries newsletter. Here it is in full with details of the upcoming David Bowie by Masayoshi Sukita exhibition that we told you about last month.

     

     

    David Bowie by Masayoshi Sukita



    Welcome...or as we say in Japan, Irashaimase !

    This entire newsletter is unashamedly dedicated to our imminent David Bowie exhibition by Japanese master photographer Masayoshi Sukita.

    This is Sukita-san’s first UK exhibition, and it is all incredibly exciting.

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    America unites in praise of The Next Day
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    March 14, 2013

     

    “They can’t get enough of it all”

     

    Earlier today we posted a piece about how you Young Americans should help save the USA from yet another Bon Jovi #1 album by investing in The Next Day instead.

    Well, we were always going to be mildly biased in this matter and why should you take our word for just how good a record The Next Day is?

    Here instead are the condensed opinions of forty plus American journalists who just happen to concur:

     

     

    "Mr. Bowie's twilight masterpiece" - New York Times
    "Breathtaking... a marvelously successful return" - LA Times
    "4 stars… a glorious homecoming" - USA
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    TND musicians interviewed for ROCK&FOLK
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    March 14, 2013

     

    “The band was all together”

     

    Jérôme Soligny has interviewed Zachary Alford, Gail Ann Dorsey, Gerry Leonard, David Torn, Earl Slick and Steve Elson about their contributions to the making of The Next Day, in an 8-page feature for the latest issue (548) of French music monthly, Rock&Folk. 

    With a headline that roughly translates to Secrets Of A Comeback, the magazine also has The Next Day as their Record Of The Month in a glowing full-page 5-star review by Eric Dahan.

    ROCK&FOLK is available any day now and we‘ll leave you with a few one liners kindly supplied by Jérôme:

     

    David Torn : “It

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    The Battle for #1 in the USA is on!
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    March 14, 2013

     

    “The toppest top of all the tops”

     

    Billboard reports that “On next week's Billboard 200 chart, rock legend David Bowie is in the hunt for his first No. 1 album, while veteran group Bon Jovi could nab its fifth chart-topper.“

    Now that balance seems a little unfair, frankly. Bon Jovi already has four number one albums under its belt and while Bowie has had four Top Ten albums on the Billboard chart, that top spot eludes him.

    Those four Top Tens might surprise you:

    1974 Diamond Dogs #5,

    1975 Young Americans #9,

    1976 Station to Station #3,

    1983 Let's Dance #4.

    How nice would it be to read:

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    More Japanese adverts for The Next Day
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    March 14, 2013

     

    “And the next day, and the next and another day…”

     

    Hot-on-the-heels of the rockin’on item we posted recently, here are three more magazines and a couple more Japanese adverts.

    The image on the left in our montage is from the very popular Asahi Newspaper in Japan, while the one on the right is the Japanese promotional poster for the album.

    If you scroll across by clicking on the little dots above you will be able to view the covers for CDJournal, Record Collector, CrossBeat and aforementioned rockin’on covers too.

    All four have generously allowed Sony Music Japan to make TND adverts from

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    Dancing Out In Space - The Words
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    March 13, 2013

     

    “Dancing Out In Space”

     

    Today’s lyrics are track number ten from The Next Day, Dancing Out In Space.

    As you’ve no doubt noticed by now, we’ve illustrated each set of words with vaguely connected images from the upcoming David Bowie is Exhibition at The V&A. 

    Today is a detail from the 1979 jumpsuit designed by Willie Brown with a graphic pattern inspired by Le Corbusier.

    The outfit was worn by Bowie for his 'future nostalgic' performance of Space Oddity in December 1979 on NBC's Dick Clark’s Salute to the Seventies.

    Stills from the performance were used for various picture sleeve releases

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    TND #1 in UK midweeks and #1 on North American iTunes
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    March 12, 2013

    "Look out you rock 'n rollers"

    Released today in America and Canada, among other places, The Next Day is straight in at #1 on the iTunes chart this morning.

    Bowie is also on course for his first #1 album in nearly 20 years in the UK, according to this morning’s Official Charts Company sales data.

    If The Next Day can maintain its lead going into the weekend, it will be Bowie’s ninth Number 1 album in the UK, his first since Black Tie White Noise, which topped the Official Albums Chart in April 1993.

    The Next Day has also clocked up the biggest first day sale of any album this year (56,000

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    The Next Day at #1 in 40 countries on iTunes
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    March 11, 2013

    "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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    Boss Of Me - The Words
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    March 11, 2013

    “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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