“So I picked on you-oo-oo”
Well, if life begins at forty, Starman is one year old today.
Released this day in 1972, it still sounds as good now as it did way back then.
The proof is here.
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“The solid book we wrote cannot be found just yet”
One of the more intriguing exhibits during the Bowie Weekender at the V&A over the last couple of days, was the installation of Paul Morley at a desk with a laptop, a pile of reference books, Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies and a screen behind him with a live display of the mammoth task he has undertaken.
All is explained on a label on an adjacent pillar:
Paul Morley is writing about David Bowie
10:00 - 17:30
Join legendary rock journalist Paul Morley as he writes a book about David Bowie in a weekend!
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April 25, 2013“And I'm busting up my brains for the words”
American novelist and short story writer, Rick Moody, (possibly best known for his 1994 novel, The Ice Storm, which featured a specially re-recorded version of I Can’t Read on the film’s soundtrack) has successfully persuaded David Bowie to contribute 42 words for a “sort of a work flow diagram for The Next Day”.
Moody has used the words in an incredible 14,000-word critique, “produced in two short weeks”, of The Next Day for The Rumpus. If you have a fair few minutes to spare, you can read the whole thing over on therumpus.net.
Meanwhile,
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“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
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“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.
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“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
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“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!
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“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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“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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