“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
“Put you all inside my show”
We’re hearing horrendous stories of inflated ticket prices for the David Bowie is Exhibition at the V&A, with reports of some tickets going for upwards of £200.
There are still limited tickets available, but, aside from that, an annual V&A membership is cheaper than the price of some of the tickets that have sold on the likes of eBay!
There are also some other great package offers available here, if you don’t want to become a member.
And with membership you can visit as many times as you like, when you like, or you can even have somebody accompany you with
“1, 2, 3-4, oooo”
It gives us much pleasure to report that David Bowie’s The Next Day remains in the UK Top Five again this week with its #4 placing today.
The Official Charts Company has just announced the album rundown via BBC Radio 1’s Official Chart Show.
This fourth week in the Top Five means that The Next Day has now enjoyed a longer stay in the Top Five than any Bowie studio album since 1983’s Let’s Dance.
Congratulations to David Bowie and thanks to all of you around the globe that bought The Next Day and made it such a success.
“It’s a crash-course for the ravers”
As hard as it may be to comprehend, David Bowie’s Drive-In Saturday was released forty years ago on this day in 1973.
The track was backed by the non-album Ziggy Stardust outtake, Round And Round, a Chuck Berry song originally titled Around And Around.
Drive-In Saturday was the second single taken from the forthcoming Aladdin Sane album (it was the follow up to The Jean Genie), and it made #3 on the UK’s official single chart.
The song name-checks Twiggy (Twig the Wonder Kid) along with Mick Jagger, whose band The Rolling Stones also covered Around And
“Come and buy my toys”
We posted the press release regarding this venture last week and as we said back then, it opened today.
We’re talking about the Selfridges in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum, David Bowie is all yours: London Concept Store, and you can go and check it all out here.
