“Who knows how it could be, be tomorrow”
A couple of days ago we told you about the Bowie Weekender which kicks off with a Bowie Flash Mob on the steps of the V&A tomorrow.
After the Flash Mob fun, the evening commences with the V&A’s regular Friday Late event, with an insanely busy schedule which sadly means it will be physically impossible to get to all of the events.
Go here to try and decide on your very own plan of action.
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“I’ve got Friday on my mind”
If you’re kicking around London’s South Kensington on Friday evening, all dressed up as David Bowie but with nowhere to go, you would be mad not to take advantage of some V&A fun with the chance to win something cool for your efforts.
To kick off the Bowie Weekender, the V&A is encouraging fans to dress as, or be inspired by, Bowie for a flash mob photo opportunity on the steps of the Cromwell Road entrance to the V&A.
They are keen to get as many would-be-Bowies as possible in the photos and will be gathering people from 18.00 on Friday (apparently it
“And so the story goes, they wore the clothes”
The April 2013 issue of Vogue Japan has a Kansai Yamamoto retrospective feature and interview which focuses on some of his earlier creations for David Bowie right up to his latest collection.
The iPad version has a video of the interview which includes Kansai talking about working with David Bowie.
“You got me spinning, baby, spinning in a trance”
The collectors among you who concern yourselves with such minutia as label variations will be either delighted (or distressed) to learn that the white vinyl, picture sleeve 45 of The Stars (Are Out Tonight)/Where Are We Now?, was issued for Record Store Day today as two different pressings with different catalogue numbers.
Though both were made in the EU, there is a major label difference between the UK and international variations of the pressing.
The UK version comes with an orange RCA label for Where Are We Now?, while the international
“Then the NME dropped a bomb”
On the shelves in the UK about now is a 100-page NME Bowie special, retailing for £5.99.
You can get the gist of this affectionate tribute from the blurb on the NME site, pasted below, and from the magazine contents listing by scrolling the accompanying image.
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NME - David Bowie Special Collectors’ Magazine
Bowie's back, and bigger than ever!
“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
“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
“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 12thAustraliaAustriaBeneluxFinlandGermanyIrelandNetherlandsNorwaySwitzerlandTurkeyMONDAY April 15thUKArabiaArgentinaBrazilChileDenmarkFranceGreeceHungaryIndiaMexicoNew ZealandPolandPortugalSouth AfricaSouth East AsiaTUESDAY April 16thUSACanadaItalySpainWEDNESDAY April 17thJapanSweden
“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.
“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
