ANCIANT break outs due February

“'Cause Low is on sale again”

Following the release of last year’s acclaimed ‘A New Career In A New Town (1977 – 1982)’ box set, break outs of five selected albums from the set as stand-alone releases will be released on February 23rd and are now available on the links below for pre-order:

Low
"Heroes"
Stage 2017
Lodger
Scary Monsters

These releases haven’t been available on vinyl officially for more than a quarter of a century since the very limited EMI reissues in 1991.

Keep reading for the press release.

#ANCIANTbox #ANCIANTBreakouts #ANewCareerInANewTownBox #BowieVinyl

DAVID BOWIE - LOW, “HEROES”, STAGE (2017), LODGER & SCARY MONSTERS (And Super Creeps)

2016 REMASTERS TO BE RELEASED ON AUDIOPHILE 180g VINYL, CD AND DIGITAL ON 23rd FEBRUARY

‘A glorious summation of Bowies’ most creative period’ - The Times

‘Breathtakingly audacious’ - The Sunday Times

‘The Greatest achievement in a career peak packed decade’ - Classic Rock

‘Captured the imagination of a generation’ - Uncut

Parlophone is proud to announce that remastered versions of DAVID BOWIE’s classic albums LOW, "HEROES", STAGE (2017 version 3 x LP, 2 x CD), LODGER and SCARY MONSTERS (And Super Creeps) are to be released individually on audiophile vinyl, CD, Mastered For iTunes and standard digital. Hi-res digital downloads in 24-bit/192kHz and 24-bit/96kHz are also available.

The albums were remastered for the critically acclaimed ‘A NEW CAREER IN A NEW TOWN (1977 – 1982)’, which includes the ‘Berlin Trilogy’ of albums on which Bowie collaborated with Tony Visconti and Brian Eno, and is the third in a series of box sets spanning Bowie's career including ‘FIVE YEARS (1969-1973)’ and ‘WHO CAN I BE NOW? (1974-1976)’.

DAVID BOWIE 2017 REMASTERED VINYL TRACK LISTINGS:

LOW
Released on RCA PL 12030 (U.K.) / CPL1-2030 (U.S.) on 14th January, 1977.

Side 1
1. Speed Of Life
2. Breaking Glass
3. What In The World
4. Sound And Vision
5. Always Crashing In The Same Car
6. Be My Wife
7. A New Career In A New Town

Side 2
1. Warszawa
2. Art Decade
3. Weeping Wall
4. Subterraneans

“HEROES"
Released on RCA PL 12522 (U.K.) / AFL1-2522 (U.S.) on 14th October, 1977.

Side 1
1. Beauty And The Beast
2. Joe The Lion
3. "Heroes"
4. Sons Of The Silent Age
5. Blackout

Side 2
1. V-2 Schneider
2. Sense Of Doubt
3. Moss Garden
4. Neuköln
5. The Secret Life Of Arabia

STAGE 2017 VERSION
Originally released on RCA PL 02913 (U.K.) / CPL2-2913 (U.S.) on 8th September, 1978.

2017 version released on Parlophone as part of ‘A New Career In A New Town’ on 29th September, 2017

Side 1
1. Warszawa
2. "Heroes"
3. What In The World

Side 2
1. Be My Wife
2. The Jean Genie
3. Blackout
4. Sense Of Doubt

Side 3
1. Speed Of Life
2. Breaking Glass
3. Beauty And The Beast
4. Fame

Side 4
1. Five Years
2. Soul Love
3. Star
4. Hang On To Yourself
5. Ziggy Stardust
6. Suffragette City

Side 5
1. Art Decade
2. Alabama Song
3. Station To Station

Side 6
1. Stay
2. TVC 15

LODGER
Released on RCA PL 13254 (U.K.) / APL1-3254 (U.S.) on 18th May, 1979.

Side 1
1. Fantastic Voyage
2. African Night Flight
3. Move On
4. Yassassin (Turkish for: Long Live)
5. Red Sails

Side 2
1. D.J.
2. Look Back In Anger
3. Boys Keep Swinging
4. Repetition
5. Red Money

SCARY MONSTERS (AND SUPER CREEPS)
Released on RCA BOWLP 2 (PL 13647) (U.K.) / AQL1-3647 (U.S.) on 12th September, 1980.

Side 1
1. It's No Game (Part 1)
2. Up The Hill Backwards
3. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
4. Ashes To Ashes
5. Fashion

Side 2
1. Teenage Wildlife
2. Scream Like A Baby
3. Kingdom Come
4. Because You're Young
5. It's No Game (Part 2)

David Bowie is… in Bloomingdale’s: Part 2

I ran to the window, Looked through a pane or two”

Yesterday we told you that in celebration of the upcoming David Bowie Is at the Brooklyn Museum exhibition, Bloomingdale’s in New York has two windows given over to some of the exhibits and a few of Freddie Burretti’s 'daywear' outfits that won’t be in the exhibition.

As promised, our montage shows the other window and a shot of David wearing the featured outfit at Union Station, Los Angeles, in March 1973.

The windows will be up through the end of day on January 28th and are at the 60th Street and Lexington Avenue entrance.

Brooklyn is the final stop of the David Bowie Is world tour and it runs from March 2nd to July 15th.

FOOTNOTE: Yes, the original lyric from Panic In Detroit is: “I ran to the window, Looked for a plane or two...” - The other liberty we have taken (which the eagle-eyed among you may have spotted), is the horizontal flipping of the Bowie LA 73 pic. Very naughty.

#DavidBowieIs #DavidBowieIsBKM #BowieBloomingdales

David Bowie is… in Bloomingdale’s

“I see you see me through your window”

As you know, the V&A’s critically acclaimed David Bowie is exhibition will make the final stop of its world tour at the Brooklyn Museum from March 2nd to July 15th.

In celebration of that fact, Bloomingdale’s in New York (1000 Third Avenue, 59th Street and Lexington Avenue), have two windows given over to a few of the exhibition pieces and some Freddie Burretti 'daywear' outfits.

Our montage shows one of the windows and a picture of David wearing the featured outfit at a press conference at the George V Hotel in Paris on May 3rd, 1973.

The windows will be up through the end of day on January 28th. Pop back tomorrow for a snap of the other window.

#DavidBowieIs #DavidBowieIsBKM #BowieBloomingdales

David Bowie: January 8th 1947 - January 10th 2016

#BowieForever

Let’s Dance (Demo) available now

Because my love for you, Would tear my heart in two”

#BowieLetsDance

DAVID BOWIE - LET’S DANCE (DEMO)

VERY SPECIAL DIGITAL ONLY BIRTHDAY SINGLE AVAILABLE HERE NOW

To celebrate what would have been the 71st birthday of David Bowie, the previously unreleased LET’S DANCE (DEMO) is available now as a special digital-only single via Parlophone for streaming and download.

In late 1982, David Bowie was visited at his home in Switzerland by Nile Rodgers to listen to songs for the album that became LET’S DANCE.

Inspired by the new songs that Bowie had written the pair decided to record a set of demos straight away. Without a band, the Montreux Jazz Festival organiser, Claude Nobs, was asked if there were any local musicians that could join the sessions to work on the demos. Turkish born Erdal Kızılçay, who would later work extensively with Bowie on Labyrinth, The Buddha Of Suburbia & 1. Outside, was recruited to play bass along with an unidentified drummer and second guitarist.

On 19th and 20th December, 1982, this makeshift band entered Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland with David Richards (who also worked with Bowie on "Heroes", Under Pressure, Labyrinth, The Buddha Of Suburbia and 1. Outside) engineering. On their first day, they recorded a funky stripped back demo for Let’s Dance.

Thirty five years later the track has been mixed for the first time especially for this release by Nile Rodgers and Russell Graham at Nile’s Le Crib Studios in Westport, Connecticut.

Speaking of those early LET’S DANCE pre-production sessions, Nile Rodgers commented:

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“I’ve been blessed with a wonderful career but my creative partnership with David Bowie ranks very, very, very high on the list of my most important and rewarding collaborations. This demo gives you, the fans, a bird's eye view of the very start of it! I woke up on my first morning in Montreux with David peering over me. He had an acoustic guitar in his hands and exclaimed, “Nile, darling, I think this is a HIT!”.
This recording was the first indication of what we could do together as I took his 'folk song' and arranged it into something that the entire world would soon be dancing to and seemingly has not stopped dancing to for the last 35 years! It became the blue print not only for Let’s Dance the song but for the entire album as well.
If you played 2nd guitar or drums let us know who you are!
The time we spent mixing it just before Christmas was full of tears as it felt like David was in the room with us. Happy Birthday David, I love you and we all miss you!".

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At the end of the track, Bowie’s voice can be heard laughing saying "That’s it, that’s it! Got it, got it!”. Within four months ‘LET’S DANCE' would be one of the biggest and most influential hits of the decade.

DAVID BOWIE - LET’S DANCE (DEMO)
(David Bowie)

Produced David Bowie and Nile Rodgers
Engineered by David Richards
Recorded at Mountain Studios, Montreux, Switzerland 19th December, 1982
Mixed by Nile Rodgers & Russell Graham at Le Crib Studios November, 2017
Arranged by David Bowie and Nile Rodgers
Vocals: David Bowie
Guitar: Nile Rodgers
Bass: Erdal Kızılçay

Swipe the image for a bigger version of the cover artwork.

No Plan EP Tops 2017 Vinyl Chart

"My-my, Someone fetch a priest…”

On the day that David Bowie’s Beauty And The Beast limited edition 40th-anniversary 7" picture disc is released (today), we thought it relevant to mention that the Official UK Charts Company has announced that Bowie has topped the Official Top 40 biggest selling vinyl singles of 2017 with his No Plan EP.

Along with the #1 placing, Bowie also claims three more spots in the Top 10, and he shares #25 with Placebo.

The Official Top 40 biggest selling vinyl singles of 2017 were:

01 - NO PLAN EP - DAVID BOWIE
02 - THE QUEEN IS DEAD - THE SMITHS
03 - "HEROES" - DAVID BOWIE
04 - WALL OF GLASS - LIAM GALLAGHER
05 - INTERSTELLAR OVERDRIVE - PINK FLOYD
06 - SOUND AND VISION - DAVID BOWIE
07 - THE BOY WITH THE THORN IN HIS SIDE - THE SMITHS
08 - BE MY WIFE - DAVID BOWIE
09 - SPENT THE DAY IN BED - MORRISSEY
10 - HOLY MOUNTAIN - NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS
25 - WITHOUT YOU I'M NOTHING - PLACEBO featuring DAVID BOWIE

In the Official Top 40 biggest selling vinyl albums of 2017, Bowie's greatest hits collection, Legacy, is at #10, while The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars is at #20 and Hunky Dory is #30.

Check out the full article here.

Meanwhile, fans that fancy winning some of that Bowie vinyl should checkout the comments section in the FB version of this story, here.

#BowieNoPlan #BowieLegacy #BowieVinyl

Help Geoff MacCormack find mystery fans

“Where are we now, where are we now?”

You’re probably familiar with Geoff MacCormack’s picture of David Bowie signing autographs for three fans in 1973.

We're not certain of the gender of the lucky threesome (it was confusing in those days), and neither are we 100% certain of the whereabouts of the signing, though it’s most likely in Bournemouth on Friday May 25th, 1973, before the Bowie and The Spiders show at the Winter Gardens.

Do you recognise yourself in the picture, or do you perhaps know who these young folk are? If so, please let us know here in the comments section on Facebook. No fibbers please.

For those of you who have read this far, check out an extra bit of fun courtesy of Geoff in the aforementioned comments section.

#GeoffMacBowie

A Happy New Year and a brand new moon

“I'll place the moon within your heart”

Inspired by Iman’s New Year supermoon Instagram post, here’s a previously unpublished picture of David Bowie by Total Blam Blam.

Obviously the moon was added after the fact, the original picture was taken at the Extras shoot in 2006.

Stay tuned for an exciting first week of 2018 leading up to January 8th and what would have been David’s 71st birthday.

#HappyNewYear2018

Duncan launches Bowie Book Club via Twitter

“Screaming above Central London”

Back in October 2013 we exclusively posted the complete list of “DAVID BOWIE'S TOP 100 BOOKS”.

In case you’ve not already seen it on Twitter, Duncan Jones has now kicked off what we’re calling the Bowie Book Club. Here’s what he said about the idea and his first selection.

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Duncan Jones @ManMadeMoon Dec 27
My dad was a beast of a reader. One of his true loves was Peter Ackroyd’s sojourns into the history of Britain & its cities. I’ve been feeling a building sense of duty to go on the same literary marathon in tribute to dad. Time allowing...
#Read-ItBig’nsTheBrain

Duncan Jones @ManMadeMoon Dec 27
Alright gang! Anyone who wants to join along, we are reading Peter Ackroyd’s “Hawksmoor,” as an amuse cerveau before we get into the heavy stuff. You have until Feb 1.

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Hawksmoor is in DAVID BOWIE'S TOP 100 BOOKS list, indeed it’s one of the books we illustrated in our montage back in 2013. It’s also a work we’ve loved for a long time here at DBHQ, since David first recommended it many years ago. We’ll leave you with the synopsis for this gripping and terrible tale of two Londons separated by two and a half centuries.

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'There is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe'
So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and the man with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - to create a forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity. Two hundred and fifty years later, London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches - crimes that make no sense to the modern mind . . .
'Chillingly brilliant . . . sinister and stunningly well executed' - Independent on Sunday
Peter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949. A novelist, biographer and historian, he has been the literary editor of The Spectator and chief book reviewer for The Times, as well as writing several highly acclaimed books including a biography of Dickens and London: The Biography. He lives in London.
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#BowieBookClub #ReadingIsBrainFood

“Listen to me”

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#BowieTeaser

Bowie at The Rainbow 45 years ago tonight

“Well the bitter comes out better on a Stollen guitar” *

David Bowie and The Spiders kicked off a short UK tour at the end of 1972 with a triumphant homecoming show at the Rainbow Theatre, on December 24th.

They were enjoying much greater chart recognition since previously being in the country and The Jean Genie had just entered the Top 20 on its way to #2 in the UK single chart.

David recalled this batch of shows and the Rainbow gig fondly in Mick Rock’s book, Moonage Daydream: “We put in a short tour of the UK between December and January 1972-73. It was always a great buzz to come back home and this was probably one of the best, highest energy jaunts of our short eighteen-month life. That's all it was, 18 months.

We had another Rainbow show on Christmas Eve, so I asked the audience beforehand to bring a toy to be donated to Dr Barnardo’s childrens’ home (http://smarturl.it/Barnardos), the organisation for which my dad had worked all of his life. I think we filled an entire truck with them.“

Indeed they did, as Andy Barding of Cygnet Committee (http://smarturl.it/CygnetCommittee) points out in this excellent celebration of the night, with contributions from Woody Woodmansey.

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’Twas the night before Christmas, 1972
… and in a North London concert hall David Bowie was making it a night to remember. And not just for his fans.
When tickets for his Christmas Eve show at the Rainbow Theatre were put on sale, David made a public appeal for concertgoers to bring toys with them as a charity donation. The response was fantastic, as David’s drummer Woody Woodmansey remembers:
“David’s toy appeal created more response than we could have imagined. There was a huge truckload of stuff. We hadn't done anything like that since the Save the Whale benefit concert much earlier on.” (Royal Festival Hall, London, July 8 1972)
The very next day, Christmas morning, the goodwill mountain of toys and games that had stacked up in the venue’s foyer was distributed to appreciative youngsters in children’s homes across London.
David was delighted. His father, who had passed away three years earlier, had been a public relations officer for Dr Barnardo Homes. So this was a cause close to his heart.
This sold-out Rainbow concert marked a triumphant homecoming for 25-year-old David and his band, the Spiders from Mars. They had just returned from nearly three months on the road in America and their absence from Britain had made homegrown hearts grow a lot, lot fonder.
NME writer and seasoned David Bowie concertgoer Charles Shaar Murray was taken aback by the frenzied audience reception.
“Just for the record, they've started screaming at David Bowie,” he wrote.
“At the Rainbow on Christmas Eve young girls were reaching out for our hero’s supple limbs and squealing in the customary manner. Whether it’s Bowiemania or Ziggymania or a combination of the two is not yet apparent.”
Rival music paper Melody Maker hit the newsstands with a David Bowie-dominated Christmas issue that same week. David was crowned their ‘main man of 1972’, and voted Top Vocalist in the end of year poll. The ‘Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars’ album, which sold close to 200,000 copies in the UK and US during 1972, was declared the MM critics’ choice.
Those who attended the Rainbow were treated to a spectacular new live set kicked off by ‘Let’s Spend the Night Together’ (featuring David playing his new VCS3 Moog synthesizer). And as a bonus attraction they were the first in Britain to hear new boy Mike Garson on piano.
This was quickly followed by a “razor-edged” ‘Hang On To Yourself', which Charles Shaar Murray enthusiastically reported was “played better than I've ever heard it.” And this in spite of David having only just got over a bout of Asian flu.
In a radical break from the regular Ziggy show format, this festive concert did away with the half-time acoustic section in favour of an all-out electric experience.
“We had worked hard in the US,” said Woody, “and I think it had evolved into a rockier show. It was nice to get back to the UK, and a perfect way to end the year with a new set.”
Charles Shaar Murray agreed: “That American tour has really honed the Spiders to perfection. The show is tougher, flashier and more manic than it’s ever been before.”
Let’s hope it was all worth the £2.50 ticket price (£1.50 for a cheap seat in the Circle). The concert ended late and, this being Christmas Eve AND the early seventies, night buses and trains were few and far between. By the time the gig ended with ‘Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide’, all underground train services had stopped. Most Bowie freaks had to either walk home or shell out for taxis. At least one silver lame-clad fan spent the night curled up in a Finsbury Park shop doorway. It’s worth clarifying that this was the only London concert by David and the Spiders in December 1972. When Christmas Eve tickets sold out pretty much instantly, efforts were made to book the venue for an extra show on the previous day, December 23. But ultimately it could not be done.
There were dramatic scenes at the stage door, as the band made their way out that night.
Woody: “I do remember the fans outside the stage door when we exited. We had to actually push one over-enthusiastic fan who was brandishing a pair of scissors.
“As we came out she lunged forward and attempted to secure a lock of Mick Ronson’s hair and narrowly missed his left eye by a fraction of an inch.”
Afterwards, David headed for his South London home (where six Royal Mail sacks full of Christmas cards were waiting for him) and the Spiders were driven home to Yorkshire in a limo - though not by MainMan bodyguard Stuey George, as has been previously documented, says Woody.
“It snowed all the way and we arrived at my mum’s in the early hours and surprised them,” he said.
And on Christmas Day, as hundreds of London kids unwrapped surprise presents from those generous David Bowie fans, the rest of the country settled down in front of their tellies to watch the traditional Christmas Top of the Pops – and a repeat showing of that now-legendary ‘Starman’ performance.
1972 had been a super-stellar year for David and the Spiders. And that Christmas, for a lot of reasons, can be considered the icing on the cake.

David Bowie at the Rainbow Theatre, December 24, 1972, Setlist
Let's Spend The Night Together
Hang On To Yourself
Ziggy Stardust
Changes
The Supermen
Life On Mars?
Five Years
The Width Of A Circle
John, I’m Only Dancing
Moonage Daydream
The Jean Genie
Suffragette City
Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide

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Thanks Andy and Woody, much appreciated.

*Of course, the original lyric is stolen, but it seemed somehow appropriate to tweak it to Stollen, a traditional German bread usually eaten during the Christmas season.

#BowieRainbow #ZiggyStardustLive

15-Page Bowie cover feature in Electronic Sound

“A New Career In A New Town”

The current issue of the superb Electronic Sound magazine @electronicmagazine has 15 pages (including the front cover), devoted to David Bowie’s superhuman 1977 output.

If you purchase directly online you also get a free 7" vinyl single from that bloke off of Devo, Mark Mothersbaugh, who is also a part of Bowie’s 1977 story.

Here’s an edited version of the blurb:

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ISSUE 36 MAG & VINYL BUNDLE
For one that started with him in a somewhat perilous state thanks to a rampant cocaine addiction, 1977 turned out to be quite the year for David Bowie. One that saw the release of two albums that would go on to influence an abundance of musicians and artists alike. To round off 2017, we turn the clock back 40 years in our cover feature and speak to some of the people that worked the ex-Thin White Duke over the course of 1977, and chronicle the encounters (both significant and trivial) that helped shaped Bowie and what would come next.
One of the people that Bowie crossed paths with that year is Mark Mothersbaugh, who incidentally features as this month’s seven-inch single. We were ecstatic when Mark agreed to Electronic Sound releasing a pair of his warped and mutated Christmas songs and here you can get them for the first time on limited edition vinyl. He also revealed to us what Devo’s first few days with Bowie were like back in 1977.

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More information and order link here.

#ElectronicSound #Bowie1977 #ANCIANTbox

Seeds of Let’s Dance sown 35 years ago today

“And Mountain magic heavy hung”

Here’s a celebratory graphic utilising a hazy 35-year-old snapshot of, from left to right, David Bowie, Erdal Kızılçay, David Richards and Nile Rodgers at Montreux’s famed Mountain Studios in Switzerland during the recording of demos for Let’s Dance, on this very day in 1982.

We all know what happened next.

#BowieLetsDance

David Bowie: Glamour Issue 3

“You better not mess with Major Tom”

Here’s an exclusive first look at Helen Green’s delicious fold-out cover for issue 3 of Andy Jones and Nick Smart’s David Bowie: Glamour fanzine. (Animation here)

The fanzine is beautifully designed by Milky Cereal and Issue 3 is available for pre-order now.

The publication boasts exclusive and original content contributed by Bowie fans and collaborators...

Issue 3 includes these alphabetically listed contributors:

Jimmy C
Robin Clark
Ian Hunter
Paul Cuddeford
Terry O’Neill
Nicholas Pegg
Mark Plati
Catherine Russell
Tony Sales
Morgan Visconti

Visit the David Bowie: Glamour fanzine site to submit contributions for Issue 4 and to pre-order Issue 3.

*We are duty-bound to point out that David Bowie: Glamour is not an official publication.

#DavidBowieGlamourFanzine

Bowie’s Lennon tribute 34 years ago tonight

"Imagine all the people”

David Bowie’s Serious Moonlight World Tour climaxed with a performance of John Lennon’s Imagine in Hong Kong on December 8th, 1983.

It was David’s tribute to his friend who had been shot and killed on the same day in New York in 1980.

You can watch a visibly emotional Bowie singing the song to the sell-out audience at Hong Kong Coliseum here.

As you know, photographer Denis O’Regan was along for the ride for every date of the tour, as recorded in the upcoming Ricochet : David Bowie 1983.

Both of the pictures here were taken by Denis in Hong Kong on that very day.

If you’ve not already stumbled upon it, here’s a great little film of Mr O’Regan talking about working with DB:

#BowieLennon #DavidBowieRicochet

U2’s tribute to David Bowie

"When I Live My Dream...”

Bono and the boys have nodded in Bowie’s direction a few times over the years, the latest being a dedication on their new album, Songs Of Experience:

“This album is dedicated to the lives and times of Dennis Sheehan, Jack Heaslip and the teenage dreams of David Bowie.”

A sweet thing to do and the perfect excuse to post a previously unpublished picture of Bowie and Bono backstage at Bowie’s Meltdown in June 2002.

Our reporter on the spot on the night reckons that Bono was probably whispering a 'Knock Knock' joke to Bowie that included the line: “Europe who?”. It’s possible.

#BowieBono

Terry O’Neill four day December Deal

“I like the T-shirts”

For a limited time only, buy any T-shirt from the David Bowie Collection AND a copy of When Ziggy Played The Marquee SIGNED by Terry O’Neill for only £100.00.

That’s a very generous saving of nearly £50.00 with the shipping guaranteed before Christmas.

There are only 200 bundles available, offer ends Monday 4th December or whilst stocks last.

Bundle

• Only 200 bundles available
• Whilst stocks last
• Includes Limited edition T-Shirt from new collection & When Ziggy Played The Marquee, signed by Terry O’Neill for just £100.00
• Offer runs from Friday 1st December to Monday 4th December
• Save nearly £50.00 on purchase

T-Shirts

• Presented by Terry O’Neill & The David Bowie Archive
• Only 100 of each design created
• Sizes from X-Small to XX-Large
• Packaged in a beautiful gift box
• Celebrating some of Bowie’s most iconic moments as captured by Terry O’Neill

Go here for more.

#BOWIEbyONEILL #BowieAtTheMarquee

SONOS Song Stories : Bowie in NY free event

“New York’s a go-go”

Sonos, the leader in whole home audio, has teamed up with Mick Rock, Nikki Sixx, Mark Mothersbaugh and Meredith Graves to present Sonos Song Stories: Bowie – an intimate event at the Sonos Store in Soho honouring the work and legacy of David Bowie as told through powerful stories of artists and fans alike with the help of the new Sonos One with Amazon Alexa. The event will take place Tuesday, December 5, offering fans a one-of-a-kind experience to listen to never-before-heard stories about Bowie, paired with the songs forever linked to those memories on Sonos One – the smart speaker for music lovers.

The immersive, free event will debut exclusive content, unveiling an original photo display curated by cultural commentator, Paul Gorman, which features rarely seen images of Bowie's New York City life taken by photographers including Mick Rock, Bob Gruen, and more. Sonos will then welcome artists and creators influenced by Bowie, including legendary rock photographer, Mick Rock; bassist and co-founder of Mötley Crüe, Nikki Sixx; composer and founding member of DEVO, Mark Mothersbaugh; and music journalist (currently host of “MTV News”) and front-person of Perfect Pussy, Meredith Graves to share powerful, personal memories of Bowie and the accompanying songs that perfectly soundtrack the memory.

The New York edition of Sonos Song Stories: Bowie is a continuation of a series of chats that kicked off at the recently opened Sonos Store in the Seven Dials neighbourhood of London, England. The inaugural event, hosted by Miranda Sawyer on November 15 and 17, featured rarely-seen images of Bowie's London life captured by Mick Rock, Brian Duffy, Rolf Adlercreutz (Alamy) and Mike Maloney; the evening also included powerful, Bowie-inspired memories and stories as told by Nick Rhodes, Goldie, Graham Coxon, Carl Barat, Peaches and Rostam.

Sonos Song Stories: Bowie is a free event and fans can register for a chance to hear these never-before shared stories in New York City at sonos.com/bowie.

FOOTNOTE: The Mick Rock photo accompanying this piece is of David Bowie on board the SS Canberra about to sail to New York, Southampton, January 1973.

#SongStories #SongStoriesBowie #SONOSBowie

Beauty And The Beast 40th anniversary picture disc

"You can't say no to the Beauty And The Beast”

The fact that Beauty And The Beast will be the next limited edition 40th-anniversary 7" picture disc (due January 5th, 2018), will come as no surprise to those of you who have been following this series of releases.

As you know, there were just two singles taken from the "Heroes" album in the UK. Following the September 1977 release of "Heroes"/V-2 Schneider (Peak UK chart position: #24), Beauty And The Beast/Sense of Doubt was issued on January 6th 1978. (Peak UK chart position: #39)

As with many Bowie single releases, the track sounded like nothing else on the radio at the time. As with its predecessor ("Heroes"), perhaps the public en masse wasn’t quite ready for the latest Bowie sound, with Fripp’s incredible guitar lines again taking centre stage and that Bowie/Visconti production ensuring Bowie was ahead of the curve yet again.

The advertising slogan: “TOMORROW BELONGS TO THOSE WHO CAN HEAR IT COMING”, never seemed so apt.

The song was certainly strong enough to be the "Heroes" album opener, and though it may have been considered an unusual choice for a single, it was just as viable as any of the other tracks on the album. Tony Visconti confirms that the line: “Someone fetch a priest”, was originally recorded with a different F-word to fetch. A wise decision to change it perhaps, or it may not have received quite the airplay that it did.

Though there had only been four previous Bowie picture sleeve singles released commercially in the UK (Starman 1972, Life On Mars? 1973, Space Oddity 1975, Suffragette City 1976), Beauty And The Beast was graced with one (basically the album cover), but the single still only just scraped into the Top 40 on the official UK singles chart. Nevertheless, Bowie picture sleeves would become de rigueur from Beauty And The Beast onwards.

An extended version was released as a promo only 12” single in the US and commercially as a 12” single in Spain. Listen to it now on Spotify.

The AA of the 7” picture disc is a previously unreleased live version of the "Heroes" album track Blackout, which was recorded on May 16th, 1978 at the Deutschlandhalle, Berlin during the ISOLAR II tour.

The images used on the A and AA sides of the picture disc are by Masayoshi Sukita and were taken in Japan in April 1977 (A-Side) and Madison Square Garden, New York in May 1978 (AA-Side).

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DAVID BOWIE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST LIMITED EDITION 40th ANNIVERSARY 7" PICTURE DISC
A-Side BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (2017 remaster)
(David Bowie)
Produced David Bowie & Tony Visconti
Mixed by Tony Visconti at Hansa by the Wall
AA-Side BLACKOUT (Live In Berlin 1978)
(David Bowie)
Produced David Bowie
Previously unreleased
Recorded live at the Deutschlandhalle, Berlin on 16th May, 1978

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Beauty And The Beast is released via Parlophone on January 5th, 2018.

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Ricochet medium format version due autumn 2018

“Feels like something’s going to happen next year”

As you know, Moonlight Books are due to publish Ricochet : David Bowie 1983 by Denis O’Regan in May 2018.

Aside from the limited edition fine art book, Denis O’Regan and Penguin Random House are also producing a medium format version (without extras) for retail distribution.

Denis had this to say about this more affordable version:

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“The collaboration with Penguin Random House (who are publishing a medium format version of the main book in Autumn 2018 at a price point of around £30) is hugely significant for me, as it makes this long standing project accessible to David’s millions of fans across the world.”

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Every image in ‘Ricochet : David Bowie 1983’ is personally approved by David Bowie. (A small sample here)

Go here for the full press release.

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