Zeroes/Beat Of Your Drum 7" picture disc due

“Vanity's child - picture disc now”

Here’s the press release regarding the rather tasty item pictured here.

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DAVID BOWIE - ZEROES (2018) (RADIO EDIT) - BEAT OF YOUR DRUM (2018) (RADIO EDIT)

DOUBLE A SIDE LIMITED EDITION 7" PICTURE DISC - RELEASED 7th SEPTEMBER

ZEROES (2018) (RADIO EDIT) DIGITAL 1 TRACK SINGLE AVAILABLE NOW

7th September, 2018, sees the release of the limited edition DAVID BOWIE 7" picture disc, a double A-side of the radio edits of the 2018 versions of ZEROES and BEAT OF YOUR DRUM. Both tracks are from NEVER LET ME DOWN (2018), a new version of the 1987 album featured in the forthcoming boxset LOVING THE ALIEN (1983-1988) which is released on 12th October. BEAT OF YOUR DRUM (2018) (RADIO EDIT) will also be released as a 1-track digital single. ZEROES is released as a digital single today, 19th July.

NEVER LET ME DOWN (2018), is a new production of Bowie’s final ‘solo’ album of the ‘80s. Producer Mario McNulty worked on the tracks at Electric Lady Studios in New York with longtime Bowie musicians Sterling Campbell (Black Tie White Noise, Outside, ‘hours…’, Heathen, Reality and The Next Day) on drums, Reeves Gabrels (Tin Machine, Black Tie White Noise, Outside, Earthling and ‘hours...') & David Torn (Heathen, Reality and The Next Day) on guitars and Tim Lefebvre (Blackstar) on bass.

ZEROES, the lyrics of which reference Prince’s Little Red Corvette was Bowie’s salute to the ‘60s. He described it as “The ultimate happy-go-lucky rock tune, based in the nonsensical period of psychedelia”. Mario McNulty commented, "Stripping this song down to its core revealed a track that could have been right at home on Hunky Dory, I kept Peter Frampton’s sitar (which was originally owned by Jimi Hendrix) as it still fits against the new guitars from Reeves Gabrels”.

Of BEAT OF YOUR DRUM Mario McNulty says, “David Torn’s ambient guitars start the song that now lead into a much darker world than its shiny predecessor. David sang all the backing vocals on this which I have kept.”

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DAVID BOWIE - ZEROES (2018) (RADIO EDIT) and BEAT OF YOUR DRUM (2018) (RADIO EDIT) LIMITED EDITION 7" PICTURE DISC.

A-Side ZEROES (2018) (RADIO EDIT) (David Bowie)

Produced by David Bowie, David Richards and Mario J McNulty

Mixed and Recorded by Mario J McNulty

AA-Side BEAT OF YOUR DRUM (2018) (RADIO EDIT) (David Bowie)

Produced by David Bowie, David Richards and Mario J McNulty

Mixed and Recorded by Mario J McNulty

The images on both sides of the picture disc are by Greg Gorman and are outtakes from the Never Let Me Down album photo session. Alternate versions of these are used on the cover of NEVER LET ME DOWN (2018).

The picture disc of ZEROES (2018) (RADIO EDIT) & BEAT OF YOUR DRUM (2018) (RADIO EDIT) is released on Parlophone on 7th September, 2018.

#LTAbox #BowieZeroes #BowieBOYD

Zeroes, Mario and Reeves on 6 Music

“Something good is happening”

Shaun Keaveny and Matt Everitt, the most handsome double act since Millican and Nesbitt and BBC Radio 6 Music breakfast show presenters to boot, have the Bowie exclusive once again on Thursday morning (July 19).

They’ll have the first radio play of the already streaming Zeroes (2018, Radio Edit), and a little pink monkey bird suggests they may also have contributions from two men involved with the creation of Never Let Me Down 2018: Bowie producer/engineer Mario McNulty and guitar mentalist, Reeves Gabrels, the most handsome double act since Keaveny and Everitt.

The programme starts at 7:00, but if you’ve read this after the event, it will be available shortly after broadcast.

Read about the just announced David Bowie Loving The Alien (1983 – 1988) box set here.

#LTAbox #BowieZeroes #BowieBBC6Music

David Bowie Loving The Alien (1983 – 1988) due October

“Thinking of a different time”

Parlophone Records are proud to announce David Bowie Loving The Alien (1983 – 1988), the fourth in a series of box sets spanning his career from 1969.

Among the studio and live albums from the period, the set will also contain an exclusive new production of the 1987 album Never Let Me Down, by Bowie producer/engineer Mario McNulty with new instrumentation by Bowie collaborators Reeves Gabrels, David Torn, Sterling Campbell and Tim Lefebvre. Never Let Me Down (2018) also boasts a string quartet with arrangements by Nico Muhly and a guest cameo by Laurie Anderson on Shining Star (Makin’ My Love).

Keep reading for the full press release.

#LTAbox

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DAVID BOWIE - ‘LOVING THE ALIEN (1983 – 1988)’

FOURTH IN A SERIES OF DAVID BOWIE BOX SETS - RELEASED 12th OCTOBER, 2018

11 CD, DIGITAL AND AUDIOPHILE 15 PIECE VINYL BOX SETS EXCLUSIVELY INCLUDE ‘NEVER LET ME DOWN (2018)’ FEATURING NEW PRODUCTION

‘ZEROES (2018)’ (RADIO EDIT) AVAILABLE NOW AS A DIGITAL SINGLE

19th July 2018 London

Parlophone Records are proud to announce DAVID BOWIE ‘LOVING THE ALIEN (1983 – 1988)’ the fourth in a series of box sets spanning his career from 1969.

The follow-up to the award winning and critically acclaimed DAVID BOWIE ‘FIVE YEARS (1969 – 1973)’, DAVID BOWIE ‘WHO CAN I BE NOW? (1974 – 1976)’ and DAVID BOWIE ‘A NEW CAREER IN A NEW TOWN (1977 – 1982)’ will be released on 12th October.

DAVID BOWIE ‘LOVING THE ALIEN (1983 – 1988)’ will contain a brand new production of the 1987 album ‘NEVER LET ME DOWN’ by Bowie producer/engineer Mario McNulty with new instrumentation by Bowie collaborators Reeves Gabrels (guitar), David Torn (guitar), Sterling Campbell (drums), Tim Lefebvre (bass) as well as a string quartet with arrangements by Nico Muhly and a guest cameo by Laurie Anderson on ‘Shining Star (Makin’ My Love)’.

The eleven CD box, fifteen-piece vinyl set and standard digital download box set is named after the opening track from the ‘Tonight’ album and includes newly remastered versions of David’s most commercially successful period ‘LET’S DANCE’, ‘TONIGHT’, ‘NEVER LET ME DOWN (ORIGINAL and 2018 VERSIONS)’, the live album ‘GLASS SPIDER (Live Montreal ’87)’, the previously unreleased ‘SERIOUS MOONLIGHT’ live album, a collection of original remixes entitled ‘DANCE’ and the non-album/alternate version/b-sides and soundtrack music compilation RE:CALL 4.

Exclusive to each of the box sets is ‘NEVER LET ME DOWN (2018)’, a new production of the 1987 album. The seeds of this reimagining of the album were first sown in 2008 when David asked Mario McNulty to remix the track ‘Time Will Crawl’ and record new drums by longtime Bowie drummer, Sterling Campbell, along with strings. The track was issued on the iSelect compilation to much acclaim, and in the notes, for that record, David remarked ‘Oh, to redo the rest of that album’.

Fast-forward to early 2018 McNulty entered Electric Lady Studios in New York with Sterling, Tim Lefebvre on bass, who was in the ★ (“Blackstar") band and Reeves Gabrels and David Torn on guitars. All of the musicians had a history with David, so were a perfect fit for what now sound like brand new songs. Nico Muhly, whom Mario first met when they were both interns working for Philip Glass in 2001, has handled the string arrangements.

The re-workings have revealed ‘Never Let Me Down’ as a very strong collection of songs with a dark thematic thread running through them. Fans listening to ‘NEVER LET ME DOWN (2018)’ would be forgiven for thinking that they were listening to a brand new ‘lost’ Bowie record.

This 2018 version of the album will also feature newly 'remixed' artwork reflecting the album’s subject matter and features unseen images from the original cover photographic session from the archive of Greg Gorman.

Also in each box is the never before released ‘SERIOUS MOONLIGHT’ live album recorded in Vancouver, in 1983. Originally mixed at the time by Bob Clearmountain, the double album captures Bowie on what at that time was his most successful tour. The artwork features shots taken by photographer Denis O’Regan.

Also included is the 2CD / 3LP GLASS SPIDER (LIVE MONTREAL ’87) album, making its debut on vinyl (which is exclusive to the LP box). The tour’s innovative set and marriage of music and theatre has been cited as a big inspiration to acts in the 2000’s. Speaking in 1991 about Glass Spider Bowie said, “It was the first time I'd had the opportunity to spend that kind of money and do shows like that! The first time since Diamond Dogs, anyway...I thought, right! Let’s really spend some money! I had all these thwarted dreams of what I'd tried to do with rock 'n roll in the early '70s”.

Exclusive to each box is ‘RE:CALL 4’ and ‘DANCE’. The former a new compilation featuring remastered contemporary single versions, non-album singles, album edits, b-sides and songs featured on soundtracks such as Labyrinth, Absolute Beginners and When The Wind Blows. ‘DANCE’ features 12 contemporaneous remixes some of which are appearing on CD and vinyl for the first time and is named after an unreleased Bowie remix album that was originally slated for release in November 1985.

The physical box set’s accompanying book, 128 pages in the CD box and 84 in the vinyl set, will feature rarely seen and previously unpublished photos by photographers including Denis O’Regan, Greg Gorman, Herb Ritts and many others as well as historical press reviews and technical notes about the albums from producers/engineers Nile Rodgers, Hugh Padgham, Mario McNulty and Justin Shirley-Smith.

The CD box set will include faithfully reproduced mini-vinyl versions of the original albums, and the CDs will be gold coloured rather than the usual silver. The vinyl box set has the same content as the CD set and is pressed on audiophile quality 180g vinyl. As well as ‘Never Let Me Down (2018)’, ‘Dance’ and ‘Re:Call 4’, both ‘Serious Moonlight (Live ’83)’ and ‘Glass Spider (Live Montreal ’87)’.

DAVID BOWIE ‘LOVING THE ALIEN (1983-1988)’

LP Box Set:

88 Page hardback book

Let’s Dance (remastered) (1LP)

Serious Moonlight (Live ’83) (previously unreleased) (2LP)*

Tonight (remastered) (1LP)

Never Let Me Down (remastered) (1LP)

Never Let Me Down (2018) (previously unreleased) (2LP - side 4 is etched)*

Glass Spider (Live Montreal ’87) (previously unreleased on vinyl) (3LP)*

Dance (2LP)*

Re:Call 4 (non-album singles, edits, single versions, b-sides and soundtrack music) (remastered) (3LP)*

* Exclusive to ‘Loving The Alien (1983-1988) LP box’

CD Box Set:

128 Page hardback book

Let’s Dance (remastered) (1CD)

Serious Moonlight (Live ’83) (previously unreleased) (2CD)

Tonight (remastered) (1CD)

Never Let Me Down (remastered) (1CD)

Never Let Me Down 2018 (previously unreleased) (1CD)*

Glass Spider (Live Montreal ’87) (2CD)

Dance (1CD)*

Re:Call 4 (non-album singles, edits, single versions, b-sides and soundtrack music) (remastered) (2CD)*

* Exclusive to ‘Loving The Alien (1983-1988)’

Digital download standard:

Let’s Dance (remaster)

Serious Moonlight (Live ’83) (previously unreleased)

Tonight (remaster)

Never Let Me Down (remaster)

Never Let Me Down 2018 (previously unreleased)*

Glass Spider (Live Montreal ’87)

Dance*

Re:Call 4 (non-album singles, single versions, b-sides and soundtrack music) (remastered)*

* Set exclusives

‘LOVING THE ALIEN (1983-1988)’ Vinyl & CD Tracklistings (showing Vinyl side breaks)

LET’S DANCE

Side 1

Modern Love

China Girl

Let’s Dance

Without You

Side 2

Ricochet

Criminal World

Cat People (Putting Out Fire)

Shake It

SERIOUS MOONLIGHT (LIVE ’83)

Side 1

Look Back In Anger

“Heroes”

What In The World

Golden Years

Fashion

Let’s Dance

Side 2

Breaking Glass

Life On Mars?

Sorrow

Cat People (Putting Out Fire)

China Girl

Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)

Rebel Rebel

Side 3

White Light/White Heat

Station To Station

Cracked Actor

Ashes To Ashes

Side 4

Space Oddity/Band Introduction

Young Americans

Fame

Modern Love

TONIGHT

Side 1

Loving The Alien

Don’t Look Down

God Only Knows

Tonight

Side 2

Neighborhood Threat

Blue Jean

Tumble And Twirl

I Keep Forgettin’

Dancing With The Big Boys

NEVER LET ME DOWN

Side 1

Day-In Day-Out

Time Will Crawl

Beat Of Your Drum

Never Let Me Down

Zeroes

Side 2

Glass Spider

Shining Star (Makin’ My Love)

New York’s In Love

’87 And Cry

Bang Bang

NEVER LET ME DOWN (2018)

Side 1

Day-In Day-Out

Time Will Crawl

Beat Of Your Drum

Side 2

Never Let Me Down

Zeroes

Glass Spider

Side 3

Shining Star (Makin’ My Love) (ft Laurie Anderson)

New York’s In Love

87 & Cry

Bang Bang

Side 4

David Bowie 1987 logo etching

GLASS SPIDER (LIVE MONTREAL ’87)

Side 1

Up The Hill Backwards

Glass Spider

Day-In Day-Out

Bang Bang

Side 2

Absolute Beginners

Loving The Alien

China Girl

Rebel Rebel

Side 3

Fashion

Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)

All The Madmen

Never Let Me Down

Side 4

Big Brother

‘87 And Cry

“Heroes”

Sons Of The Silent Age

Time Will Crawl / Band Introduction

Side 5

Young Americans

Beat Of Your Drum

The Jean Genie

Let’s Dance

Side 6

Fame

Time

Blue Jean

Modern Love

DANCE

Side 1

1. Shake It (Re-mix aka Long Version)

(Originally released on the B-side of the ‘China Girl’ 12” single on EMI America 12EA 157 (U.K.) and V-7809 (U.S.) in May, 1983.)

2. Blue Jean (Extended Dance Mix)

(Originally released on 12” single on EMI America 12EA 181 (U.K.) and V-7838 (U.S.) in September, 1984.)

3. Dancing With The Big Boys (Extended Dance Mix)

(Originally released on the B-side of the ‘Blue Jean’ 12” single alongside an Extended Dub Mix of the same, release details as above.)

Side 2

1. Tonight (Vocal Dance Mix)

(Originally released on 12” single on EMI America 12EA 187 (U.K.) and V-7846 (U.S.) in November, 1984.)

2. Don't Look Down (Extended Dance Mix)

(Originally released on the B-side of the ‘Loving The Alien’ (Extended Dance Mix) 12” single alongside the ‘Loving The Alien’ (Extended Dub Mix) on EMI America 12EA 195 (U.K.) and VG-7858 (U.S.) in May, 1985.)

3. Loving The Alien (Extended Dub Mix)

(Originally released on the B-side of the ‘Loving The Alien’ (Extended Dance Mix) 12” single, release details as above.)

Side 3

1. Tumble And Twirl (Extended Dance Mix)

(Originally released on the B-side of the ‘Tonight’ 12” single alongside a ‘Tonight’ (Dub Mix), release details as above.)

2. Underground (Extended Dance Mix)

(Originally released on 12” single on EMI America 12EA 216 (U.K.) and V-19210 (U.S.) in June, 1986.)

3. Day-In Day-Out (Groucho Mix)

(Originally released on 12” single on EMI America 12EAX 230 (U.K.) and V-19239 (U.S.) in March, 1987.)

Side 4

1. Time Will Crawl (Dance Crew Mix)

(Originally released on 12” single on EMI America 12EAX 237 (U.K.) in June, 1987.)

2. Shining Star (Makin’ My Love) (12” mix)

(Originally released on the ‘Never Let Me Down’ digital E.P. on EMI 0094639278954 in May, 2007.)

3. Never Let Me Down (Dub/Acapella)

(Originally released on the B-side of the ‘Never Let Me Down’ (Extended Dance Mix) 12” single on EMI America 12EA 239 (U.K.) and V-19255 (U.S.) in August, 1987.)

RE:CALL 4

Side 1

1. Let's Dance (single version)

2. China Girl (single version)

3. Modern Love (single version)

4. This Is Not America (The theme from ‘The Falcon And The Snowman’) - David Bowie / Pat Metheny Group

5. Loving The Alien (re-mixed version)

Side 2

1. Don't Look Down (re-mixed version)

2. Dancing In The Street (Clearmountain mix) - David Bowie and Mick Jagger

3. Absolute Beginners (from Absolute Beginners)

4. That’s Motivation (from Absolute Beginners)

5. Volare (from Absolute Beginners)

Side 3

1. Labyrinth Opening Titles/Underground (from Labyrinth)

2. Magic Dance (from Labyrinth)

3. As The World Falls Down (from Labyrinth)

4. Within You (from Labyrinth)

5. Underground (from Labyrinth)

Side 4

1. When The Wind Blows (single version) (from When The Wind Blows)

2. Day-In Day-Out (single version)

3. Julie

4. Beat Of Your Drum (vinyl album edit)

5. Glass Spider (vinyl album edit)

Side 5

1. Shining Star (Makin’ My Love) (vinyl album edit)

2. New York’s In Love (vinyl album edit)

3. ‘87 And Cry (vinyl album edit)

4. Bang Bang (vinyl album edit)

5. Time Will Crawl (single version)

Side 6

1. Girls (extended edit)

2. Never Let Me Down (7” remix edit)

3. Bang Bang (live - promotional mix)

4. Tonight (live) Tina Turner with David Bowie

5. Let's Dance (live) Tina Turner with David Bowie

CD TRACKLISTING

LET’S DANCE

Modern Love

China Girl

Let’s Dance

Without You

Ricochet

Criminal World

Cat People (Putting Out Fire)

Shake It

SERIOUS MOONLIGHT (LIVE ’83)

CD1

Look Back In Anger

“Heroes”

What In The World

Golden Years

Fashion

Let’s Dance

Breaking Glass

Life On Mars?

Sorrow

Cat People (Putting Out Fire)

China Girl

Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)

Rebel Rebel

CD2

White Light / White Heat

Station To Station

Cracked Actor

Ashes To Ashes

Space Oddity/Band Introduction

Young Americans

Fame

Modern Love

TONIGHT

Loving The Alien

Don’t Look Down

God Only Knows

Tonight

Neighborhood Threat

Blue Jean

Tumble And Twirl

I Keep Forgettin’

Dancing With The Big Boys

NEVER LET ME DOWN

Day-In Day-Out

Time Will Crawl

Beat Of Your Drum

Never Let Me Down

Zeroes

Glass Spider

Shining Star (Makin’ My Love)

New York’s In Love

’87 And Cry

Bang Bang

NEVER LET ME DOWN (2018)

Day-In Day-Out

Time Will Crawl

Beat Of Your Drum

Never Let Me Down

Zeroes

Glass Spider

Shining Star (Makin’ My Love) (ft Laurie Anderson)

New York’s In Love

’87 And Cry

Bang Bang

GLASS SPIDER (LIVE MONTREAL ’87)

CD 1

Up The Hill Backwards

Glass Spider

Day-In Day-Out

Bang Bang

Absolute Beginners

Loving The Alien

China Girl

Rebel Rebel

Fashion

Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)

All The Madmen

Never Let Me Down

CD 2

Big Brother

‘87 And Cry

“Heroes”

Sons Of The Silent Age

Time Will Crawl / Band Introduction

Young Americans

Beat Of Your Drum

The Jean Genie

Let’s Dance

Fame

Time

Blue Jean

Modern Love

DANCE

1. Shake It (Re-mix aka Long Version)

2. Blue Jean (Extended Dance Mix)

3. Dancing With The Big Boys (Extended Dance Mix)

4. Tonight (Vocal Dance Mix)

5. Don't Look Down (Extended Dance Mix)

6. Loving The Alien (Extended Dub Mix)

7. Tumble And Twirl (Extended Dance Mix)

8. Underground (Extended Dance Mix)

9. Day-In Day-Out (Groucho Mix)

10.Time Will Crawl (Dance Crew Mix)

11.Shining Star (Makin’ My Love) (12” mix)

12.Never Let Me Down (Dub/Acapella)

RE:CALL 4

CD 1

Let's Dance (single version)

China Girl (single version)

Modern Love (single version)

This Is Not America (The theme from ‘The Falcon And The Snowman’) – David Bowie / Pat Metheny Group

Loving The Alien (re-mixed version)

Don't Look Down (re-mixed version)

Dancing In The Street (Clearmountain mix) - David Bowie and Mick Jagger

Absolute Beginners (from Absolute Beginners)

That’s Motivation (from Absolute Beginners)

Volare (from Absolute Beginners)

Labyrinth Opening Titles/Underground (from Labyrinth)

Magic Dance (from Labyrinth)

As The World Falls Down (from Labyrinth)

Within You (from Labyrinth)

Underground (from Labyrinth)

CD 2

When The Wind Blows (single version) (from When The Wind Blows)

Day-In Day-Out (single version)

Julie

Beat Of Your Drum (vinyl album edit)

Glass Spider (vinyl album edit)

Shining Star (Makin’ My Love) (vinyl album edit)

New York’s In Love (vinyl album edit)

‘87 And Cry (vinyl album edit)

Bang Bang (vinyl album edit)

Time Will Crawl (single version)

Girls (extended edit)

Never Let Me Down (7” remix edit)

Bang Bang (live - promotional mix)

Tonight (live) Tina Turner with David Bowie

Let's Dance (live) Tina Turner with David Bowie

David Bowie Is Virtual - Press Release

“Welcome to virtual reality”

After touring the globe for the past six years, the phenomenally successful ‘David Bowie is’ exhibition has come to an end. But the show must go on! This fall, Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., in collaboration with the David Bowie Archive, Planeta, and V&A, will release a digital recreation of the exhibition on smartphones as an augmented reality experience. In the spring, a redesigned ‘David Bowie is’ will arrive on all major virtual reality platforms.

These new digital versions of ‘David Bowie is’ will add unprecedented depth and intimacy to the exhibition experience, allowing the viewer to engage with the work of one of the world’s most popular and influential artists as never before. The David Bowie Archive will donate a portion of the profits to the V&A and Brooklyn Museum.

Keep reading for the full press release.

#DBisVirtual

DAVID BOWIE IS VIRTUAL

July 16, 2018 -- Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. will release an augmented and virtual reality adaptation of the iconic museum retrospective ‘David Bowie is.’ Planeta, a product studio in New York City, will develop the experience for mobile devices and all major VR/AR platforms in collaboration with the David Bowie Archive and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

‘David Bowie is’ was a record-breaking exhibition that drew over 2 million visitors in the 12 cities where it was presented. It was the most visited touring exhibition at the V&A - the world’s greatest museum of decorative arts, design and performance. The show explored the creative processes of Bowie as a musical innovator and cultural icon, tracing his shifting style and sustained reinvention across five decades.

The digital experience, a first of its kind, will deliver an astonishing, but deftly connected sequence of audio-visual spaces through which the work and artifacts of Bowie’s life can be experienced. 3D scans will preserve and present his fabulous costumes and treasured objects in meticulous detail. The experience may even allow a spectator to virtually step into one of Bowie’s outfits and see themselves in it.

David Bowie was one of the most influential artists of our era. Both the visual richness of this show and the visionary nature of Bowie and his art, makes this a particularly ideal candidate for a VR/AR adaptation. It will be an entirely new experience of ‘David Bowie is,’ one that enhances this iconic show with elements that only VR and AR can provide, yet remains firmly grounded in the work of this extraordinary artist.

The experience will – like the museum show – be offered in nine different languages. The first release is expected for fall 2018. The David Bowie Archive will be donating a share of the profits from this project to the V&A and the Brooklyn Museum.

Visit davidbowieisreal.com to stay connected to this exciting project.

Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. organized ‘David Bowie is’ in Tokyo in 2017.

Planeta is a New York product studio that builds expressive tools and experiences in new media.

David Bowie is leaving Brooklyn

“Seven days to see my life…”

David Bowie is, which officially hit 2,000,000 visitors last month, has entered its last week at the Brooklyn Museum, the final stop of its global tour.

Since 2013, David Bowie is has visited 12 venues on five continents, becoming the most-visited international touring show in the V&A’s 165-year history.

o V&A Museum, London, UK, from 23 March to 11 August 2013

o Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, from 25 September to 27 November 2013

o Museum of Image and Sound, Sao Paulo, Brazil from 31 January to 20 April 2014

o Martin-Gropius-bau, Berlin, Germany from 20 May – 24 August 2014

o Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA from 23 September 2014 – 4 January 2015

o Philharmonie de Paris/Cite de la Musique, Paris, France from 2 March – 31 May 2015

o Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne, Australian from 16 July – 1 November 2015

o Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands from 15 December 15 – 10 April 2016

o Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo) from 14 July - 13 November 2016

o TERRADA G1, Tokyo, Japan from 8 January - 9 April 2017

o Museu del Disseny, Barcelona, Spain, from 25 May 2017

o Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA, from 2 March 2018 – 15 July 2018

Over 300 objects including handwritten lyrics, original costumes, photography, set designs, album artwork and rare performance material from the past five decades were brought together from the David Bowie Archive for the very first time. It demonstrated how Bowie’s work has both influenced and been influenced by wider movements in art, design, theatre and contemporary culture and focussed on his creative processes, shifting style and collaborative work with diverse designers in the fields of fashion, sound, graphics, theatre and film.

Around 312,000 visitors saw David Bowie is at the V&A in London, where the museum opened late to cope with demand to view the sell-out show. The exhibition was also the subject of a feature film, David Bowie is happening now.

#DavidBowieIs #DavidBowieIsBKM

Welcome To The Blackout, Christiane F. and Baal chart

“Get me off the streets (get some protection)”

To mark the arrival of David Bowie’s Christiane F. – Wir Kinder Vom Bahnhof Zoo soundtrack at #5 on the latest official vinyl album chart, Denis O’Regan has given us another exclusive from his recently published Ricochet book of David Bowie and the real Christiane F., Christiane Felscherinow.

They are pictured disembarking from the 1983 Bowie tour jet in Germany, in June 1983. Denis remembers that Christiane joined the Bowie entourage for the German leg of the tour.

While we’re on the subject of the charts, Welcome To The Blackout (Live London ’78) (WTTB) fared even better by entering the official album chart Top 20 (all formats, not just vinyl) at #16.

To complete the hat trick, the 10" EP of David Bowie In Bertolt Brecht’s Baal has entered the vinyl singles chart at #2, where it joins four other Bowie singles in the Top 40:

#02 David Bowie In Bertolt Brecht’s Baal

#27 "Heroes"

#35 Let’s Dance

#38 Golden Years

#39 Beauty And The Beast

Check out www.Itsahugeboxedset.com to learn more about #bowie1983book.

#BowieWTTB #BowieChristianeF #BowieBAAL #BowieVinyl #DavidBowieRicochet #bowie1983book #DenisORegan

Ziggy killed off forty five years ago tonight

“Not only is it the last show of the tour”

As you’ve no doubt noticed, today marks the 45th anniversary of David Bowie’s final Ziggy and The Spiders show, which took place at Hammersmith Odeon on July 3rd, 1973.

On this very evening forty five years ago, a stunned and somewhat bewildered audience left the venue having witnessed Ziggy’s final show to a paying audience*, complete with a farewell speech that many weren't sure if they had heard correctly.

Of course, the “we” of “the last show that we’ll ever do...” referred to Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars collectively, as Bowie himself was back on the road in North America less than a year later with The Year Of The Diamond Dogs tour.

Nevertheless, that farewell speech followed by one of the more emotional performances of Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide is now the stuff of legend. Check out both here.

Finally, check this out this video on the official David Bowie Facebook page.

*Ziggy was resurrected one last time for The 1980 Floor Show at The Marquee in October.

#FarewellZiggy

Bowie returns to Hammersmith 35 years ago tonight

“Gimme your hands ’cos you're wonderful”

35 years ago tonight and almost ten years since he had retired Ziggy there in 1973, David Bowie returned to London’s Hammersmith Odeon in aid of the Brixton Neighbourhood Community Association.

Today is also the official release date of Denis O'Regan’s Ricochet, a bloody great big boxed set of 5 books, an exclusive vinyl 12", 3 signed prints all beautifully designed and housed in an enormous acrylic case...did we say, it's massive?

Anyway, to mark the official release of Ricochet and the anniversary of the Hammersmith show, Denis has kindly given us these exclusive shots from the night.

Here’s a bit more about today’s release...

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Serious David Bowie vinyl collectors will be in awe of ‘Ricochet : David Bowie 1983’. Included in the 15 kilo (33 pound) acrylic cased boxed set of five photographic books by Denis O’Regan is a 12 inch red vinyl single: A-side ‘Ricochet’, B-side ‘Let’s Dance’, both tracks remastered in 2018 by Nile Rodgers. The vinyl itself - along with the boxed set - is limited to only 2000 copies. It will never be made available outside of this collection, and is released on June 30th 2018, the 35th anniversary of David’s ‘Serious Moonlight’ charity concert at London’s Hammersmith Odeon in aid of the Brixton Neighbourhood Community Association.

In addition, the boxed set contains three signed and numbered fine art limited edition prints. Each one is accompanied by a digitally authenticated certificate. Another certificate authenticates and describes the collection within the acrylic case - including the vinyl - and features a David Bowie estate stamp inspired by the ‘ex libris' mark that David attached to his personal book collection, designed for Moonlight Books by ‘Blackstar’ artist Jonathan Barnbrook. It too is invisibly stamped with digitally created DNA and referenced in the Tagsmart online database that can be accessed online by the buyer.

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It also contains a pair of white gloves for cleaner handling. True!

Stay tuned for more exclusives from Denis shortly. Also, check out www.Itsahugeboxedset.com to learn more about #bowie1983book.

#DavidBowieRicochet #bowie1983book #DenisORegan

Bowie fan art #18 at Brooklyn Museum

“The paintings are all your own”

David Bowie collected all of the fan art he was sent over the years and now the Brooklyn Museum has fulfilled his dream that one day they should be exhibited. We’re posting a piece online every Friday with the hashtag #DavidBowieArt.

Unfortunately, the creators of the majority of the works collected are unknown, but it would be a great help if anybody reading this has more information, be it the artists themselves or somebody who knows them.

As with several previous paintings, today’s likeness returns to that timeless source of visual inspiration, Bowie as the universe’s most beautiful alien, Thomas Jerome Newton, in the film The Man Who Fell To Earth.

You can enjoy all of the pieces on display at the exhibition for a little over a fortnight, as the exhibition closes on July 15th.

Tickets and details of other Bowie-related events at the Brooklyn Museum here.

#DavidBowieIs #DavidBowieIsBKM #DavidBowieArt #BowieFanFriday

Christiane F and Baal vinyl in stores now

“With your silicone hump and your ten-inch BAAL”

Don’t forget exclusive (strictly ‘bricks and mortar’ only), vinyl reissues for retail stores today, including Christiane F. – Wir Kinder Vom Bahnhof Zoo on red vinyl and a 10" trifold sleeve of David Bowie In Bertolt Brecht’s Baal.

Welcome To The Blackout now

“Someone’s back in town”

Forty years to the day since David Bowie began his three day stint at Earl’s Court in 1978, Parlophone issues the best-selling Record Store Day release on CD and digital.

“Brilliant throughout. Better than the official Stage...An essential purchase for Bowie fans.” – ★★★★★ David Buckley MOJO magazine

Don’t forget exclusive ‘bricks and mortar’ vinyl reissues for retail stores today, of Christiane F. – Wir Kinder Vom Bahnhof Zoo on red vinyl and a 10" trifold sleeve of David Bowie In Bertolt Brecht’s Baal.

#BowieWTTB #BowieChristianeF #BowieBAAL #BowieVinyl #BowieMOJO

5-star WTTB review and 14-page cover feature in MOJO

“Under the moonlight, this serious moonlight”

The August 2018 issue of MOJO (MOJO 297) has 13 pages (plus cover), dedicated to the story of Let’s Dance.

David Buckley also reviews Welcome To The Blackout (WTTB, out 29 June) and gives the album a five star rating, with this observation:

“Brilliant throughout. Better than the official Stage...An essential purchase for Bowie fans.”

Here’s the blurb from the MOJO site...

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COVER STORY: 35 YEARS ON, THE EXTRAORDINARY story of David Bowie’s Let’s Dance and Serious Moonlight – his rollercoaster ride to fame and riches, weirdness and regret – with new interviews with Nile Rodgers, Earl Slick, Carlos Alomar and more.

COVERMOUNT CD: DANCE THE BLUES 15 tracks mining the classic R&B that inspired David Bowie to dance the blues: Little Richard, Johnny Otis, James Brown, Earl Bostic, Albert King and more!

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Go here for more detail regarding the August issue of MOJO, which is out on June 26.

#BowieMOJO #BowieLetsDance #BowieWTTB

20 pages of Bowie plus 24-page photo special in Classic Rock

“At the centre of it all, at the centre of it all”

The new issue of Classic Rock magazine (#251, Summer 2018), has fifty pages of Bowie-related content, including the cover, a full-page advert for next week’s Welcome To The Blackout release, thirteen pages dedicated to "BOWIE: His Greatest Songs" and a separate 24-page Bowie photo supplement, confusingly called "BOWIE BACKSTAGE", containing 26 classic Bowie photographs, of which, just 5 are actually backstage.

The magazine also has a 4-page article on the criminally underrated Pin Ups album with recollections of the recording sessions from Mike Garson, not to mention a 6-page Mott The Hoople retrospective, though we just did.

The "BOWIE: His Greatest Songs" feature has a chronologically listed 58 songs chosen by a similar number of rock luminaries. The selections inspired us to create a Spotify playlist of over four and a half hours.

Binge listen here.

The songs start at The London Boys and end with Lazarus, with some wonderful contributions from various rock persons. Here’s a bit of what Dave Matthews had to say regarding Blackstar:

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“The song and the album are both unbelievable. I find it almost infuriating that somebody could be such an unrelenting artist. Staring at one’s own mortality and calmly producing something of that magnitude – also doing it in secret! – is barely conceivable. I mean, put yourself in the place of his band. When they find out that he was there singing and making that music, knowing his time was dwindling…Good grief, what kind of a human being could do that?”

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We'll leave you with the list of songs, including our minor tweaks:

01 - The London Boys

02 - When I’m Five

03 - Space Oddity

04 - The Width Of A Circle

05 - Saviour Machine

06 - All The Madmen

07 - The Bewlay Brothers

08 - Life On Mars?

09 - Changes

10 - Queen Bitch

11 - Starman

12 - Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide

13 - Ziggy Stardust

14 - Moonage Daydream

15 - Hang On To Yourself

16 - Five Years

17 - Suffragette City

18 - All The Young Dudes (We’ve selected the Bowie/Mott hybrid for those who have never heard it)

19 - The Jean Genie

20 - John, I’m Only Dancing (Aladdin Sane session version as it’s sandwiched between two Aladdin Sane tracks)

21 - Drive-In Saturday

22 - Rebel Rebel

23 - Diamond Dogs

24 - 1984

25 - Fame

26 - Young Americans

27 - Stay

28 - Sound And Vision

29 - Breaking Glass

30 - Lust For Life (Iggy Pop)

31 - "Heroes"

32 - V-2 Schneider

33 - Boys Keep Swinging

34 - DJ

35 - Fashion

36 - Ashes To Ashes

37 - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)

38 - Under Pressure (with Queen)

39 - Modern Love

40 - Let’s Dance

41 - China Girl

42 - Loving The Alien

43 - Absolute Beginners

44 - Under The God (Tin Machine)

45 - Some Are

46 - You Belong in Rock ‘N’ Roll (Not on Spotify. We have selected another Tin Machine track instead. I Can’t Read. A song Bowie liked enough to revisit for the soundtrack of The Ice Storm in 1997)

47 - The Buddha Of Suburbia

48 - The Hearts Filthy Lesson

49 - No Control

50 - Hallo Spaceboy

51 - I’m Afraid Of Americans

52 - The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell

53 - Thursday’s Child

54 - Slip Away

55 - New Killer Star

56 - Where Are We Now?

57 - Blackstar

58 - Lazarus

#BestOfBowie #ClassicRockMagazine

Life On Mars? single is 45 today

“As I ask you to focus on”

David Bowie’s Life On Mars? single was released forty five years ago today in the UK, June 22nd, 1973.

Though taken from the 1971 classic, Hunky Dory, it wasn’t released in its own right until 1973. Possibly capitalising on its popularity as a live number during the Ziggy Stardust shows in 1972, the song wasn’t actually performed often on the Aladdin Sane Tour of 1973, during which it was released. Nevertheless, it reached #3 on the official UK singles chart.

Pictured here is a still from Mick Rock’s beautiful Life On Mars? promotional video. Alongside it are the sheet music, the music press advert and the single cover (all UK) and the US Hunky Dory cover.

David’s handwriting at the top of the montage is taken from the original US trade advert for Hunky Dory, wherein David had scribbled a few notes on a piece of headed hotel stationary from The Warwick in New York regarding each of the tracks on Hunky Dory.

Taking into account the insertion and crossing out that David made to his original annotation, the entry for Life On Mars? read: “Life on Mars - This is a sensitive young girl’s reaction to...The Media.”.

However, a bit of close quarter scrutiny reveals what he had originally written: “Life on Mars - This is a sensitive young girl’s reaction to songs like My Way, films like Love Story and newspapers.”.

This is kind of ironic considering the note Bowie scribbled for Life On Mars? on the back sleeve of Hunky Dory read: “INSPIRED BY FRANKIE”, a reference to My Way being a part of the song’s history. But that’s a whole other story.

Watch Mick Rock’s reworked video for Life On Mars? (2016) on the Official David Bowie YouTube channel.

#HunkyDory #LifeOnMars #BowieMickRock #BowieLOM

Bowie fan art #17 at Brooklyn Museum

“The paintings are all your own”

David Bowie collected all of the fan art he was sent over the years and now the Brooklyn Museum has fulfilled his dream that one day they should be exhibited. We’re posting a piece online every Friday with the hashtag #DavidBowieArt.

Unfortunately, the creators of the majority of the works collected are unknown, but it would be a great help if anybody reading this has more information, be it the artists themselves or somebody who knows them. This method has proved quite successful so far.

Today’s painting depicts Bowie as Paul Ambrosius von Przygodski in the 1978 David Hemmings-directed, Just a Gigolo. The original photograph was taken by Christian Simonpietri.

You can enjoy all of the pieces on display at the exhibition for just three more weeks before the exhibition closes on July 15th.

Tickets and details of other Bowie-related events at the Brooklyn Museum here.

#DavidBowieIs #DavidBowieIsBKM #DavidBowieArt #BowieFanFriday

2 millionth DB is visitor presented with signed litho

“Two million dreams…”

David Bowie is officially hit 2,000,000 visitors today. The feat was marked this afternoon at the Brooklyn Museum where a very appreciative Bowie fan, Nicole, received a signed lithograph of a Bowie self-portrait (used for the Outside album cover), a limited edition of the David Bowie Is book, a pair of Sennheiser headphones, and a premium subscription to Spotify.

Here’s how the Brooklyn Museum announced on Instagram:

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David Bowie is has officially hit 2,000,000 visitors! As the final stop of its global tour, we are thrilled to be part of this milestone day and to name Nicole as the lucky visitor! She’ll be traveling home to Dublin, Ireland with a suitcase full of swag from @vamuseum, @brooklynmuseum, @davidbowie, @sennheiser, and @spotify. Not only is she an avid Bowie fan, but this is also Nicole’s first trip to New York—Thanks for letting us be part of your New York experience!

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Tickets and details of other Bowie-related events at the Brooklyn Museum here.

#DavidBowieIs #DavidBowieIsBKM #DavidBowieArt

Bowie fan art #16 at Brooklyn Museum

“The paintings are all your own”

David Bowie collected all of the fan art he was sent over the years and now the @brooklynmuseum has fulfilled his dream that one day they should be exhibited. We’re posting a piece online every Friday with the hashtag #DavidBowieArt.

Unfortunately, the creators of the majority of the works collected are unknown, but it would be a great help if anybody reading this has more information, be it the artists themselves or somebody who knows them.

As with several previous paintings, today’s likeness is of Bowie as Thomas Jerome Newton in the film The Man Who Fell To Earth. Based on two images, the original US TMWFTE poster and a still from the film.

You can enjoy all of the pieces on display at the exhibition for one more month as the exhibition closes on July 15th.

Tickets and details of other Bowie-related events at the Brooklyn Museum here.

#DavidBowieIs #DavidBowieIsBKM #DavidBowieArt #BowieFanFriday

Denis O'Regan’s 1st official Bowie shoot is 40

“Had to get the train...”

On the 40th anniversary of David Bowie’s return to the UK for his stint of 1978 shows, Denis O'Regan has given us an exclusive shot from the first of them at Newcastle City Hall on June 14.

These were the first UK concerts for two years since Bowie’s 1976 Wembley gigs and Denis had the foresight to make sure he was there.

The image on the right is a previously unpublished photo from the night and the one on the left is one of the ones published in the NME review, albeit the correct way round here.

The review itself was glowing summed up by the subheading, “Bowie: two hours and ten minutes of excellence”.

Over to Denis...

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I vividly remember arriving at King’s Cross station to catch the Intercity 125 train to Newcastle in 1978, after I persuaded NME to cover David’s Newcastle City Hall show. Then I just remember squatting in the aisle between the front seats awaiting my three song allowance as Warszawa emanated from the PA - the anticipation was incredible.

This was the first time I had seen David live since Ziggy Stardust at Hammersmith Odeon five years earlier, and it was the first time I would shoot him as a professional photographer. I had no idea that in another five years I would spend the year touring the world with David.

After my three songs I snuck up to the balcony that runs around City Hall, and shot as much as I could. One of my photographs from that night is still probably my favourite of all the live pictures I took of David - it radiates cool.

Denis O'Regan - June 14, 2018

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Thanks for that Denis, exciting times. But, as you say, nothing compared to what would happen five years later.

Stay tuned for more exclusives from Denis shortly. Also, check out www.Itsahugeboxedset.com to learn more about #bowie1983book.

Much gratitude to Martyn Hammond for the ticket scan.

#DavidBowieRicochet #bowie1983book #DenisORegan

China Girl enters UK chart 35 years ago today

“Oh baby just you shut your mouth”

David Bowie’s China Girl single entered the UK chart on June 11 1983. Originally released at the end of May, the 7” was followed by a 7” picture disc (the first official commercial Bowie pic disc single), and a 12” vinyl single.

China Girl was a new version of a song which Bowie had co-written with Iggy Pop for the latter’s 1977 album The Idiot.

With co-production by Nile Rodgers, Bowie’s China Girl peaked at #2 in the UK chart and #10 in the US and was a top 10 hit in many other European countries. Sadly, Iggy’s original didn’t fare so well.

The David Mallet directed video caused controversy in some quarters with its re-enactment of the beach scene from the film From Here To Eternity and was banned in some countries.

Featuring New Zealand model Geeling Ng and Bowie naked in the surf, Bowie described the video as a "very simple, very direct" statement against racism. The video went on to win an MTV video award for Best Male Video.

China Girl (Bowie/Pop)

Original UK release date: May 31 1983

Highest chart position: UK: #2 US: #10

Originally appeared on: Let’s Dance

Produced by: David Bowie, Nile Rodgers

Video directed by: David Mallet

#BowieChinaGirl

David Bowie and The Swedish Academy

“I want eagles in my daydreams, diamonds in my eyes”

Brooklyn based Hyperallergic have published an article by Jan Åman, a respected curator, writer, columnist, based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Titled David Bowie, the Nobel Prize, and Panic in Stockholm, the piece centres on the current drama around the Swedish Academy, which “has reached Shakespearian proportions, and might even flip the way we look at contemporary culture.”.

The Swedish Academy is the institution that has selected the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature since 1901. But, as Åman highlights, the recent troubles have seen the present members (who are appointed for life), reduced from 18 to 10. (Currently back up to 14.)

Here’s a heavily edited excerpt, wherein Åman mentions Bowie in the company of cultural icons that Bowie himself would have been far too humble and embarrassed to see highlighted:

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Not many people noticed it, but right after Bob Dylan became the 2016 Nobel Prize laureate, the (until recently) Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, Sara Danius, was asked her personal opinion on Dylan. She answered, almost en-passant, that she was more of a Bowie fan, thereby slipping us a key.

Bob Dylan had for ages been mentioned as a possible Nobel Prize winner. But Bowie — that was a different twist. What I realized then and there was that the spirit of David Bowie has hovered over the way she has been staging her job ever since she became the Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy.

When, in 2015, Danius made her debut in the job, she descended the staircase to the Nobel Dinner in the Blue Hall as if it were a truly historical world stage. She was wearing a gown designed by Pär Engsheden in close cooperation with Danius herself, a dress well beyond normal contemporary standards. .

Her way of heading the Academy can very well be compared to David Bowie’s entry into London’s world of rock’n’roll in the 1970’s. Bowie sensed his own greatness and was able to cope with it, as many great artists do, by surpassing his context.

David Bowie was the opposite of your ordinary rock star. He invented a series of alter egos to distance himself from a market that would swallow the identities of many other, less savvy musicians. He turned himself into Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane, personas that enabled him to play with pop culture’s soon-to-implode future. He handled the leap across the Atlantic to the US by turning himself into The Thin White Duke — and kept on changing even after his death (”dropped my cell-phone down below…”).

David Bowie is in this sense a descendant of Marcel Duchamp, who, through Rrose Selavy, could play with both gender and life. Marcel Duchamp too felt a need to surpass his context, the art world of Paris. When, late in life, Duchamp was asked by professor Ulf Linde why he moved to New York in 1915, he replied: “The art life in Paris had already turned into the market’s need for Braque and Picasso — and I didn’t want play on such a low level.”

The photographs taken by Carl Bengtsson of Sara Danius in Engsheden’s gowns are related to the shape-shifting images of Bowie and Duchamp: They make her into an actor. She and the Academy are decidedly not the same. They are different entities, coming from different worlds.

Compare Danius’s gestures with the demeanor of Horace Engdahl, a previous Permanent Secretary, who is rumored to be her leading opponent in the Academy turmoil. In photographs taken outside the Academy building at the height of the scandal, he is seen laughing at journalists as if he embodied and personified the entire institution. He laughs as if he were the Academy laughing.

Conincidentally, Engdahl’s writing has largely focused on German Romantic poets. The Thin White Duke and Rrose Selavy are thus pitted against the doomed poet Friedrich Hölderlin. Externalizing against internalizing. A distanced persona against a self blurred with its context.

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) lost his mental health and lived the last 36 years of his life in the house of the carpenter Ernst Zimmer, out of touch with the external world. Is this the destiny awaiting the Academy? Or will the furor be an opportunity for reinvention, for multiple roles in a rapidly expanding cultural universe?

As work of contemporary art, the Academy scandal has a potential to disrupt an old institution, as well as old models of cultural production, as they turn and face the strange — ch-ch-changes.

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Read the full thing here.

FOOTNOTE: Pictured here are David Bowie as unspecified female (but possibly a nod to his co-star Marlene Dietrich in Just A Gigolo), in the 1979 promo video for Boys Keep Swinging. And on the right is aforementioned Rrose Selavy (Marcel Duchamp), pictured by Man Ray in 1920. © Man Ray Trust/ADAGP.

#BowieForever