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    Cover feature in Saturday’s Libération magazine
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    March 23, 2013

     

     

     

    “Speak Chinese, French and Dutch?”

     

    Great piece in French Libération newspaper’s magazine today (Saturday 23rd) by Eric Dahan.

    The four-page cover feature in celebration of David Bowie is at the V&A is reproduced here, but it’s published in French, naturally.

    However, if you’re desperate to get the gist of the piece but don’t read French, then have fun with an online translator, like we did with the concluding paragraph:

    “Secluded in his penthouse overlooking Manhattan, the multimedia prophet of an already happened apocalypse and of a mutant future, the pop Zarathoustra who reaffirmed,

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    The Next Day vinyl with CD due April 1st
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    March 23, 2013

     

    “Just playing that latest record”

     

    Just to keep you in the picture and so you don’t think it‘s some kind of cheap April Fool’s Day prank on the day, The Next Day vinyl set will now be released worldwide on April 1st.

    Though the delay may disappoint some of you, hopefully the news that the 180 gram, 17-track double vinyl set will include the 17-track CD too will cheer you.  

    It's another beautiful Barnbrook-designed package that is a pleasure to behold. Speaking of Jonathan B, here’s an interview with him on the V&A channel that you may not have spotted yet.

    One of the zillions of items of

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    Hear The Next Day on Spotify now
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    March 22, 2013

     

    “Listen”

     

    If for one reason or another you’ve not yet heard The Next Day, you can go check it out on Spotify right now. 

    Once it has its hooks in you’re probably not going to want to listen to anything else, but pretty much the whole of the Bowie back catalogue is there if the fancy takes you.

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    Low, “Heroes”, Stage and Lodger due as Zeit! box
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    March 22, 2013

     

    ”As long as we’re together”

     

    EMI is repackaging the existing versions of the Low (1977), “Heroes” (1977), Stage (1978) and Lodger (1979) CDs together in a cardboard slipcase, under the box set name of DAVID BOWIE – ZEIT! 77-79.

    You may be familiar with this kind of repackage that seems to be a popular method of grouping ’related’ albums together. Check out the superb IDBD for examples. 

    The three studio albums here were released between 1977 and 1979 and are generally referred to as the somewhat misleading Berlin Trilogy.

    A more unifying theme throughout the three recordings is the

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    V&A posts Tilda Swinton’s Bowie Speech
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    March 21, 2013

     

    “We have a nice life”

     

    As you’ve no doubt seen or heard, Tilda Swinton was a speaker (along with Sir Paul Ruddock) at a dinner in celebration of David Bowie is at the V&A on Tuesday evening.

    The V&A has now posted her speech online, and rather good it is too.

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    The Next Day chart positions PR and new picture
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    March 20, 2013

     

    (Note: scroll across for full landscape version of this gorgeous new Jimmy King portrait of Bowie)

     

    David Bowie’s 'The Next Day' Debuts #1 on Charts in 12 Countries and Tops iTunes Chart in Over 60 Countries

     

    First Album in Decade Sparks Passionate Global Response

     

    New York, NY – March 20, 2013 – David Bowie’s new album 'The Next Day' (ISO/Columbia Records) has debuted at #1 in the U.K., Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland a week after its release, and has topped the iTunes chart in over 60 countries

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    V&A previews published as Bowiemania continues in UK
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    March 19, 2013

     

    “He’s in the best-selling show”

     

    On Sunday the Observer newspaper in the UK reported the excitement surrounding the launch of the David Bowie is Exhibition at the V&A this coming Saturday thusly: “Bowie mania as V&A exhibition smashes records”.

    The item went on to declare that the exhibition is breaking all previous records at the museum adding that “More than 42,000 advance tickets for the in-depth retrospective have been sold, more than double the advance sales of previous exhibitions.”

    All this in the week that The Next Day became the nation’s favourite long player when it hit the #1

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    David Bowie in at #1 for first time on German album chart
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    March 18, 2013

     

    “Ich bin dann König”

     

    Sony Germany reports that David Bowie‘s The Next Day has entered the album chart there straight in at number one.

    The Next Day is Bowie’s first #1 album in Germany, his previous best being Let’s Dance, which reached #2 in 1983.

    Exciting times indeed.

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    David Bowie in at #1 on UK album chart
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    March 17, 2013

     

    The Official Charts Company in the UK has just announced that David Bowie‘s The Next Day has entered the album chart straight in at Number One.  

    The Next Day is Bowie’s first number 1 album since 1993’s Black Tie White Noise and it’s also the fastest selling album of 2013 so far.

    Bowie outsells the second highest new entry of the week, Bon Jovi’s What About Now, by more than two copies to one.

    Congratulations to David Bowie for his ninth number 1 album in the UK and thanks once more to all of you that bought The Next Day and put David Bowie back where he belongs.

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    I dressed Ziggy Stardust and so did I
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    March 17, 2013

     

    “And so the story goes they wore the clothes, They said the things to make it seem improbable”

     

    Saturday’s edition of the Telegraph Magazine in the UK has an interesting piece wherein Kansai Yamamoto talks about the clothes he designed for Bowie's Aladdin Sane tour.

    He specifically mentions making the asymmetrical woollen creation pictured here, just one of nine costumes that Kansai presented to Bowie in Tokyo on his visit to Japan for nine shows in April 1973.

    Coincidentally, the same day the BBC's Radio 4 broadcast a half hour show entitled: I dressed Ziggy Stardust. (Saturday, Radio 4,

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