“I discovered a star...”
As outlined in our previous post, READY, SET, GO! (LIVE, RIVERSIDE STUDIOS' 03) will be released on 12th April 2025, for Record Store Day.
Listen to and watch the live version of NEW KILLER STAR, the opening song from the show, here.
#BowieRSD #RSD2025 #BowieReadySetGo #NewKillerStarLive2003
“I got a better way, Ready, set, go!”
Parlophone Records is proud to announce the release of a David Bowie limited double vinyl LP and CD: READY, SET, GO! (LIVE, RIVERSIDE STUDIOS' 03) which will be released on 12th April 2025, for Record Store Day.
Keep reading for the full press release.
#BowieRSD #RSD2025 #BowieReadySetGo
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DAVID BOWIE - READY, SET, GO! (LIVE, RIVERSIDE STUDIOS ’03)
LIMITED 14-TRACK VINYL DOUBLE ALBUM & CD
RELEASED BY PARLOPHONE EXCLUSIVELY FOR RECORD STORE DAY 12th APRIL 2025
Parlophone Records is proud to announce the release of a very special David Bowie limited double vinyl LP and CD READY, SET, GO! (LIVE, RIVERSIDE STUDIOS' 03) which will be released on 12th April , 2024, for Record Store Day.
On 8th September, 2003, David Bowie made history at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, London, with the biggest ever live and interactive music satellite event the world had seen to that point. The special one-off live concert was beamed simultaneously to fans in 86 cinemas in 26 countries, from Hong Kong to Helsinki, and 14 screens in Paris alone were dedicated to the show.
Bowie and his band unveiled the first-ever live performance of his new album REALITY, released a week later. Now, for the first time, the eleven-song main set, the REALITY album in its entirety, plus three previously unreleased tracks from the encore, will be available on double vinyl and single CD exclusively for Record Store Day 2025.
The event marked many firsts in technological terms; it was the biggest ever non-TV satellite broadcast, the first ever interactive cinema event via a Q&A element hosted by Bowie fan and broadcaster Jonathan Ross and the first live satellite event in 5.1 DTS surround sound, which was overseen by longtime collaborator, Tony Visconti.
The precedent-setting event also went live across Asia a day later with a live Q&A between David and fans in Japan, Australia, Singapore, and Southeast Asia. The event was also beamed to North and South America, and Canada the day the album was released, with David doing brand new live Q&A sessions for those broadcasts.
DAVID BOWIE - READY, SET, GO! (LIVE, RIVERSIDE STUDIOS ’03)
2LP
Side 1
New Killer Star
Pablo Picasso
Never Get Old
Side 2
The Loneliest Guy
Looking For Water
She’ll Drive The Big Car
Side 3
Days
Fall Dog Bombs The Moon
Try Some, Buy Some
Reality
Side 4
Bring Me The Disco King
Hallo Spaceboy
Cactus
Afraid
CD
New Killer Star
Pablo Picasso
Never Get Old
The Loneliest Guy
Looking For Water
She’ll Drive The Big Car
Days
Fall Dog Bombs The Moon
Try Some, Buy Some
Reality
Bring Me The Disco King
Hallo Spaceboy
Cactus
Afraid
Produced by David Bowie and Tony Visconti.
Vocal, Guitar: David Bowie
Keyboards: Mike Garson
Bass, Vocals: Gail Ann Dorsey
Guitars: Earl Slick
Guitars, Vocals: Gerry Leonard
Drums: Sterling Campbell
Keyboards, Guitar, Vocals: Catherine Russell
DAVID BOWIE - READY, SET, GO! (LIVE, RIVERSIDE STUDIOS ’03)
LIMITED 14-TRACK VINYL DOUBLE ALBUM & CD RELEASED BY PARLOPHONE EXCLUSIVELY FOR RECORD STORE DAY 12th APRIL, 2025
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“I got you to kiss goodnight...” *
Very sad to learn of the passing of Marianne Faithfull in London today at the age of 78.
It seems somehow appropriate to republish the words she posted following David’s death in 2016, as they could have been written for her...
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January 12, 2016
We had great fun (doing the 1980 Floor Show TV special back in 1973). He was a huge artist. All my love to his family. RIP & go well Dave! you are one of the greatest Artists of our time, or at any rate my time; Go well
xxxxx Marianne.
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Brian Aris captured this beautiful portrait of Marianne with David in 1991.
* The lyric here is from the Sonny and Cher song I Got You Babe, which Marianne performed dressed in a backless nun’s habit in an unforgettable duet with David during The 1980 Floor Show.
#RIPMarianneFaithfull #BowieFaithfull
“And the rain sets in, It's the angel-man, I'm deranged...”
We’re deeply saddened by the passing of David Lynch. Bowie himself cited Lynch’s work as an influence and who could forget seeing DB as FBI Special Agent Phillip Jeffries in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DE5ksQbMYwq/?img_index=1
#RIPDavidLynch #TwinPeaks
RIP DAVID LYNCH
“And the rain sets in, It's the angel-man, I'm deranged...” *
We’re deeply saddened by the passing of David Lynch. You’ll be aware of his work through the incredible body of films he directed.
Bowie himself cited Lynch’s work as an influence and who could forget seeing DB as FBI Special Agent Phillip Jeffries, first introduced to viewers in Lynch’s 1992 prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, with further appearances by the special agent in Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces and Twin Peaks: The Return.
Here’s his family’s Facebook announcement...
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It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch. We would appreciate some privacy at this time. There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us. But, as he would say, “Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.”
It’s a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way.
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“In heaven, everything is fine...”
* Our lyric quotation is from I’m Deranged, two different edits of which appeared on the soundtrack of Lynch’s Lost Highway.
#RIPDavidLynch #TwinPeaks
“Young American, young American, you want the young American...”
DAVID BOWIE YOUNG AMERICANS
50th ANNIVERSARY HALF SPEED MASTERED LP
50th ANNIVERSARY PICTURE DISC LP WITH POSTER
LIMITED EDITION RELEASES
AVAILABLE 7th MARCH, 2025 ON PARLOPHONE
PRE-ORDER HERE (Link will be updated throughout the day)
#BowieYoungAmericans #YoungAmericans50
7th March 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of David Bowie's ninth studio album, YOUNG AMERICANS.
On the exact day of its Golden Jubilee, YOUNG AMERICANS will be issued as a limited edition 50th anniversary half-speed mastered LP and a picture disc LP pressed from the same master. The picture disc comes with a poster of the album cover.
The album saw Bowie broaden his musical horizons once more, embracing what he called 'Plastic Soul' and would give Bowie his first number one single in the U.S., ‘FAME’, co-written with John Lennon and Bowie's then guitarist, Carlos Alomar.
The album was partly influenced by the 'Philly Sound' and recorded in Philadelphia at Sigma Sound studios during a break in the DIAMOND DOGS tour with a band that featured amongst others Bowie stalwart Mike Garson on keys, along with the late Luther Vandross on vocals and David Sanborn on saxophone.
During the Tony Visconti produced sessions at Sigma Sound, Bowie immersed himself in soul music and created a new persona called The Gouster, a slang term for a hip street character. An early version of the album using this title was issued on the boxset WHO CAN I BE NOW? (1974-1976).
When the tour recommenced, Bowie radically reworked the setlist to incorporate the new material and stripped the elaborate production of the tour back to reflect a radically new musical direction. At the end of the tour in December ’74, sessions continued at The Record Plant and, while recording in New York, Bowie connected with John Lennon, where they recorded a cover of The Beatles ‘ACROSS THE UNIVERSE’ and a new collaborative composition, ‘FAME’ at Electric Lady Studios. The New York sessions were co-produced by David and Record Plant engineer Harry Maslin.
Bowie opted not to tour following YOUNG AMERICANS’ release, and within nine months, had moved on again, releasing his next album, STATION TO STATION, and reinventing himself once again in the persona of The Thin White Duke.
This new pressing of YOUNG AMERICANS was cut on a customised late Neumann VMS80 lathe with fully recapped electronics from 192kHz restored masters of the original Record Plant master tapes, with no additional processing on transfer. The half-speed was cut by John Webber at AIR Studios.
DAVID BOWIE - YOUNG AMERICANS - TRACKLISTING
SIDE ONE
Young Americans
Win
Fascination
Right
SIDE TWO
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Across The Universe
Can You Hear Me
Fame
YOUNG AMERICANS
50th ANNIVERSARY HALF SPEED MASTERED LP
50th ANNIVERSARY PICTURE DISC LP WITH POSTER
AVAILABLE 7th MARCH, 2025 ON PARLOPHONE
(Original photo by Helmut Newton, 1983)
#BowieForever
“Slim tie, Showdown, Can't stop…” *
It’s 8th January in David Bowie’s UK birthplace and it’s wonderful to see all the appreciation already shown for him around the globe on what would have been his 78th birthday today.
The love for DB via social posts, live tributes and fan meetings is quite incredible. You know how moved he would have been.
The image we’ve used was taken on David’s 28th birthday on this day in 1975. He was snapped by Robin Platzer at the star-studded opening of the Lajeski Gallery in New York, where sixty artists exhibited their interpretation of ‘The Condition of the Tie today'.
Here’s an edited excerpt from a report in The New York Times headed: The Theme Was Ties, the Opening Slightly Mad...
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The show’s theme was “The Condition of the Tie Today,” and its purpose was, as Yoko Ono, artist and former Beatle wife, put it, “fun in this time of depression.”
So for fun's sake, if not always for art's sake, about 1,000 guests and gate‐crashers from the worlds of art, fashion, music and theater and from the fringes of these worlds, jammed into 22‐yearold Gary Lajeski's new chrome and glass winter digs in the old Valentino building. It's an extension of his Tower Gallery in Southampton.
They came with and without tie and in a variety of dress and undress.
Pop singers, ranging from glitter (David Bowie) to bubble gum (David Cassidy), mingled with actors and socialites who were trundled back and forth from the Plaza Hotel by carriage.
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* Actually, Bowie’s tie was far from slim, having been a fan of neckwear as a statement for some time already.
#BowieForever #WorldDavidBowieDay #DavidBowieBirthday
“Dazzled by the new year”
Welcome to 2025 via Renaud Monfourny’s camera lens from thirty years ago.
This shot was taken in Paris in 1995 to accompany a Bowie interview in Les inRockuptibles with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, published the following year.
Thanks for all your support throughout 2024, it’s more appreciated than you know.
Have a wonderful 2025 and here’s to some exciting Bowie anniversaries ahead and more this year.
#BowieNewYear2025 #BowieRenaudMonfourny #BowieLesinRockuptibles
“Black struck the kiss,…”
Ten years ago today, David Bowie kindly sent us his annual seasonal message to post on the official Bowie socials and here on DavidBowie.com
Despite the enthusiasm and exciting promise of more music on the horizon in the brief note, sadly this would prove to be his last year-end holiday message.
We’ve used the same image (called Bowie Ghosts), that accompanied that original post.
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25th December 2014
SEASONAL MESSAGE FROM DAVID BOWIE TO YOU
Wishing you guys a very happy year-end holiday and we are looking forward to a full, plump but snappy, rather sexy, music-crazy New Year, are we not?
Oh, yes we are !!
David Bowie 2014
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#Bowie2014 #BowieForever
“Can you hear me Major Tom?”
The second album by David Bowie (titled David Bowie and latterly known as Space Oddity) was released fifty-five years ago today in the UK through Mercury affiliate Philips Records.
Financed by Mercury on the strength of the Space Oddity single, the album was recorded in 1969 at Trident Studios in London with Tony Visconti producing, aside from Space Oddity itself which was produced by Gus Dudgeon.
Mercury added the legend Man of Words/Man of Music for the US version of the album and used different artwork. Neither the Philips or Mercury versions had any commercial success, despite a positive reaction from critics.
The album finally reached the audience it deserved with the reissue in 1972 by RCA Records under the title of Space Oddity, following Bowie’s commercial breakthrough with Ziggy Stardust. Using a contemporary Mick Rock photo of Bowie as the artwork, the reissue charted in both the UK and the US.
Tony Visconti revisited the album five years ago for the superb Space Oddity (2019 Mix) release which included Conversation Piece, not included on the original.
The cover images here were taken by Vernon Dewhurst.
#SpaceOddity55
“Waiting for the gift of sound and vision…”
This has been a long time coming since we first announced back in February of last year.
It gives us much pleasure to share the press release following this morning’s London press event where details about V&A East Storehouse including an Order an Object service, new acquisitions, a reveal of opening displays and more about the David Bowie Centre were presented.
With introductions from the V&A’s Deputy Director Tim Reeve and V&A East's Director Gus Casely-Hayford there was also a panel discussion led by Naz Hamdi, along with a sneak peek inside V&A East Storehouse’s Collections Hall.
Keep reading for more information...
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Opening on 13 September 2025, V&A East Storehouse’s free to access David Bowie Centre will be the new home of David Bowie’s archive, recently acquired by the V&A through the generosity of the David Bowie Estate, the Blavatnik Family Foundation and Warner Music Group. For the first time, the archive of 90,000+ items, which traces Bowie’s creative processes as a musical innovator, cultural icon, and advocate for self-expression and reinvention, will be accessible to everyone. Highlights include stage costumes such as Bowie’s breakthrough Ziggy Stardust ensembles designed by Freddie Burretti (1972), lyrics for songs including Fame (1975), Heroes (1977) and Ashes to Ashes (1980), as well as examples of the ‘cut up’ method of writing introduced to Bowie by the writer William Burroughs.
Split into three separate zones, the David Bowie Centre will have a mix of small, curated displays and audio-visual installations. There will also be quieter study areas, where visitors can delve into all aspects of Bowie’s archive on their own. From Bowie’s iconic costume to musical instruments, make-up charts, stage models, Oblique Strategies card decks, personal notes, writings, lyrics and music, sketches, designs and more, at V&A East Storehouse, visitors can get closer to David Bowie than ever before.
To develop the inaugural David Bowie Centre displays, the curatorial team consulted with 18–25-year-olds from the four Olympic Boroughs of Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest through London Legacy Development Corporation and Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park’s Elevate Youth Voice. The small displays spotlight the wide range of objects within the archive and Bowie’s multi-dimensional creative approach, including his unrealised projects, collaborations, and influences. They also reveal the stories behind the creation of some of Bowie’s iconic albums and personas from Aladdin Sane to The Thin White Duke, and his significant influence on creatives from Lana del Rey to Lil Nas X and Issey Miyake. A series of rotating guest curators – including Bowie’s collaborators, experts, contemporary creatives, and young people from V&A East’s Youth Collective – will also be invited to share their insights and perspectives on the archive.
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More details regarding schedules, events and access to follow.
📸 Bowie live onstage in 1973 image by Mick Rock and a guitar from the David Bowie Archive being prepared ahead of the David Bowie Centre opening at V&A East Storehouse © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
See the David Bowie Facebook version of this post for more images.
#BowieArchiveVAM #VnAEastStorehouse #DavidBowieCentre
“Everything’s falling into place...”
A quick reminder that as part of our 25th anniversary celebration of 'hours...' we have been posting videos from Bowie’s various 1999 promotional TV appearances, live performances, and guest interviews on the official Bowie YouTube channel.
Check them all out here.
#Bowie1999 #Hours25 #BowieHours
“And you’ll believe you’re loving the alien...”
David Bowie’s Tonight album was released on 24th September 1984, 40 years ago today.
Though there were only three tracks on the album that David Bowie had no hand in the writing of at all, there were just two solo Bowie compositions and two new co-writes out of the nine tracks.
Some would argue the two solo Bowie compositions are the two best tracks on the album. Would you agree?
1. Loving The Alien (Bowie)
2. Don't Look Down (Pop/Williamson) (Originally recorded by Iggy Pop for New Values, 1979)
3. God Only Knows (Wilson/Asher) (Originally recorded by The Beach Boys for Pet Sounds, 1966)
4. Tonight (featuring Tina Turner) (Bowie/Pop) (Originally recorded by Iggy Pop for Lust for Life, 1977)
5. Neighborhood Threat (Bowie/Pop/Gardiner) (Originally recorded by Iggy Pop for Lust for Life, 1977)
6. Blue Jean (Bowie)
7. Tumble And Twirl (Bowie/Pop)
8. I Keep Forgettin' (Leiber/Stoller/Garfield) (Originally recorded by Chuck Jackson for Any Day Now, 1962)
9. Dancing With The Big Boys (featuring Iggy Pop) (Bowie/Pop/Alomar)
As ever, those Dig! chaps have dug a bit deeper, and you can read this in-depth piece by Alan York now...
Tonight: A New Dawn For David Bowie’s Overlooked 80s Album:
We’ll leave you with the intro to Alan’s piece...
“At least in the commercial sense, the success of David Bowie’s 16th studio album, Tonight, was pretty much a fait accompli. Arriving in the autumn of 1984, just nine months after the completion of his enormous Serious Moonlight world tour, the record shot to No.1 and basked in Bowie’s reputation as a global superstar – and yet history often finds it sitting in the shadow of its illustrious predecessor, 1983’s Let’s Dance.”
#BowieTonight40 #BowieDIG
“Remember that everybody has to wait online...” *
Traditionally, we’ve marked 4th October as the release date for the 'hours...' album, which was the UK release date for the physical version, though there was no official vinyl back then.
However, strictly speaking today is the 25th anniversary of the release as explained by this item in Rolling Stone magazine published on 30th August 1999...
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David Bowie has pulled another cyber-coup by becoming the first major-label artist to sell a complete album online in download form. Starting Tuesday, Sept. 21, fans will be able to purchase the digital files for hours… at VirginRecords.com, BowieNet (www.davidbowie.com) and at participating record-store Web sites (unspecified at press time). More than fifty stores have signed on to offer the record for the two-week period preceding the album’s North American CD release on Oct. 5. Pricing will be left up to retailers.
“I couldn’t be more pleased to have the opportunity of moving the music industry closer to the process of making digital downloads available as the norm and not the exception,” said Bowie in a statement Monday. Bowie has long been a fan of the Internet and digital distribution. He was one of the first name-brand artists to release a single online in 1997 (the drum ‘n’ bass track “Telling Lies”), he pioneered the use of Webcasts and chats, and launched the world’s first artist-created Internet service provider in 1998 with the formation of BowieNet.
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Supported by a heavy TV and radio campaign of Bowie appearances, the David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels produced 'hours...' was another top five hit in the UK for Bowie...and downloads became quite popular too.
* As you may have noticed, today’s lyric quotation is tweaked from Blue Jean, which entered the UK Top 20 forty years ago this week. It’s a reference to the incredibly slow download speeds back in 1999, when dial-up meant that purchasing the album this way you would have been lucky to have been listening to it on the same day. Anybody out there still have their original download? Probably a collector’s item these days.
'hours...' is considerably easier to listen to these days:
#Bowie1999 #Hours25 #BowieHours
“The last of the dreamers…”
As promised yesterday when we posted about the LIVE FROM THE MANHATTAN CENTER ’99 DIGITAL EP (have you heard it yet?), here are details of more celebrations of the 25th anniversary of 'hours...' in the form of the press release.
#Bowie1999 #Hours25 #BowieManhattan #HoursRemixEP
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DAVID BOWIE
CELEBRATING THE 25th ANNIVERSARY OF ‘hours…’
THE FIRST EVER DIGITALLY RELEASED ALBUM BY A MAJOR ARTIST
PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED LIVE TRACKS, REMIXES & RARELY SEEN CLASSIC TV PERFORMANCES
AVAILABLE TO PRE-SAVE NOW
20th September 2024 London - Parlophone Records is proud to announce a series of digital & video releases to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the David Bowie gold certified album 'hours…'.
Initially released on 21st September 1999, 'hours…' was Bowie’s 22nd studio album. He once more proved himself to be a trailblazer as it was the first by a major artist to be made available as a download.
The decision was incredibly controversial at the time, with some established retailers calling for a boycott and a withdrawal of all his albums from their shelves, which, of course, never happened. Speaking at the time, Bowie said, "I am hopeful that this small step will lead to greater steps by myself and others, ultimately giving consumers greater choices and easier access to the music they enjoy." As with so much of his work and expression, this quote envisioned the future with uncanny accuracy.
The album itself saw Bowie harken back to his early career with the 12-stringe acoustic guitar being at the forefront of key songs on the album, including 'Survive' and 'Seven', two of three singles released in the U.K. While David didn't undertake a tour for the album, he played a handful of intimate shows and several live TV performances.
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of 'hours…', Parlophone will release two digital EPs featuring four previously unreleased tracks.
'LIVE FROM MANHATTAN CENTER ‘99' is out on 20th September and features three previously unreleased live tracks recorded for the U.K. TV show Top Of The Pops but not broadcast at the time. The recording was made at the same venue as David’s VH1 Storytellers performance but two days earlier and in a different studio.
The six-track 'hours…' REMIX EP’ follows on 11th October and features two Beck remixes and an unheard 'hip hop' mix of the album's lead single 'Thursday's Child'.
On the 23rd and 30th of September, four tracks from the 4th December 1999 performance on the BBC's 'Later…With Jools Holland' including the classics' Ashes To Ashes' and 'Cracked Actor' will be released on the David Bowie YouTube account along with the footage of the three tracks from the 'LIVE FROM MANHATTAN CENTER ‘99' EP. Also beginning on the 14th October four videos from David’s performance in Paris on the 14th October 1999 will be available on his YouTube channel.
DAVID BOWIE
‘hours…’ 25th ANNIVERSARY
20th SEPTEMBER
LIVE FROM THE MANHATTAN CENTER ’99 DIGITAL EP
Thursday’s Child (Previously Unreleased)
Survive (Previously Unreleased)
The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell (Previously Unreleased)
23rd SEPTEMBER
LATER…WITH JOOLS HOLLAND 04/12/1999 VIDEOS
Ashes To Ashes
Cracked Actor
Something In The Air
Survive
30th SEPTEMBER
TOP OF THE POPS 03/11/1999 VIDEOS
Survive
Thursday's Child
The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell
11th OCTOBER
'hours...' REMIX EP
Seven (Beck mix #1)
Seven (Beck mix #2)
Seven (Marius de Vries mix - Original Speed)
The Pretty Things are Going to Hell (150 bpm Stigmata Film Mix)
Thursday's Child (Hip Hop Mix) (Previously Unreleased)
Thursday's Child (Rock Mix)
14th OCTOBER
Thursday’s Child (Video Live In Paris 14th October 1999)
15th OCTOBER
Something In The Air (Video Live In Paris 14th October 1999)
16th OCTOBER
Survive (Video Live In Paris 14th October 1999)
17th OCTOBER
Seven (Video Live In Paris 14th October 1999)
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“Throw me tomorrow, Everything’s falling into place…”
Tomorrow (20th September) sees the 25th anniversary of the release of Thursday’s Child, the first single from 'hours...'.
In celebration of that fact, Parlophone will issue the LIVE FROM THE MANHATTAN CENTER ’99 DIGITAL EP which features three previously unreleased live tracks recorded for the U.K. TV show Top Of The Pops but not broadcast at the time.
The songs were taped on 21st August, two days before VH1 Storytellers was recorded in the same building (The Manhattan Center) but not in the same studio.
If it’s the 20th where you are, you may already be enjoying the EP via your favourite digital platform.
20th SEPTEMBER
LIVE FROM THE MANHATTAN CENTER ’99 DIGITAL EP
Thursday’s Child (Previously Unreleased)
Survive (Previously Unreleased)
The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell (Previously Unreleased)
Stay tuned for details of more celebrations of the 25th anniversary of 'hours...'.
#Bowie1999 #Hours25 #BowieManhattan #BowieThursdaysChild
Though we’ve not managed to have it officially confirmed, if the news is correct, we are very sad to learn of the passing of Herbie Flowers in the last couple of days.
His work with Bowie and associates over the years is too long to list here.
Aside from his incredible musicianship over many decades, he was a beautiful soul and a very funny man. He will be sorely missed.
Our thoughts are with his family and friends.
Herbie is pictured here with David and Marc Bolan in 1977 during filming of the MARC show.
#BowieFlowers
It is with much sadness that we learn of the passing of artist and friend of David Bowie, Derek Boshier.
Bowie fans will know him best for his artwork contributions to both Lodger and Let’s Dance.
The sad news was posted on his Instagram page earlier today. Here’s an edited excerpt...
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It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Derek Boshier (1937-2024), the esteemed English artist whose work spanned decades of pioneering creativity. Born in Portsmouth in 1937, and moved to the USA in the 90s, Boshier leaves behind a lasting legacy that shaped and challenged the art world with his astute and often wry observations of popular culture.
“We are deeply saddened by Derek Boshier’s passing. An inspiration to so many, his relentless curiosity was a true force of nature. We will miss his witty sense of humour, his stories that would light up any room he was in. Above all we will miss his extraordinary drive to create and reinvent the art he was destined to share with the world. Shine bright Derek! We will do our very best to continue sharing your stories and celebrate your legacy for the generations to come.” - Mila Askarova, Founder & CEO of Gazelli Art House
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Read Derek’s recollections of meeting with Bowie and the subsequent collaborations in a piece on Vice.com from 2017 by Katie Bain titled: David Bowie and The Clash Were Fans of Derek Boshier’s Art, and You Should Be Too
If you’re not already familiar with it, check out some of Derek’s Bowie related work here:
The two DBs are pictured here with Derek’s daughters.
#BowieBoshier
PRESS RELEASE
DAVID BOWIE - ‘THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS’
THE LEGENDARY ALBUM IN DOLBY ATMOS FOR THE FIRST TIME
PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED FOOTAGE OF THE ZIGGY STARDUST TOUR REVEALED HERE
TO BE RELEASED ON BLU-RAY AUDIO DISC 6th SEPTEMBER 2024 AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER HERE
Parlophone Records is proud to announce the first ever Dolby Atmos spatial audio version of DAVID BOWIE’s THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS making its debut in Dolby Atmos spatial audio. The new mix of the album will be available on Blu-Ray Audio on 6th September.
The Blu-Ray audio disc of THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS features four iterations of this timeless album: 2024 Dolby Atmos mix, 2024 Stereo Mix (96 khz / 24-bit pcm), original 1972 Stereo Mix – 2012 remaster (192 khz / 24-bit pcm), original 1972 Stereo Mix – 2012 remaster (48 khz / 24-bit pcm). The Atmos version of the album was mixed by Emre Ramazanoglu and Ken Scott at RAK Studios, London.
Ahead of the release, spectacular previously unseen footage from the Ziggy Stardust tour shot in the UK during 1972 and 1973 by late Bowie collaborator & photographer Mick Rock has been revealed, featuring the album version of “Starman” as its soundtrack.
Of this new Dolby Atmos mix the album’s co-producer, Ken Scott says “You’re in there with the act, with David. He was so theatrical I think being able to put him into an immersive place makes this a really good choice for an Atmos mix. My whole philosophy with this has been to make it more like a live experience. And I’ve even got him moving about the stage a little towards the end, the way he would have in real life. Hopefully it just feels as if you’re in the theatre with this amazing show going on.”
THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS is the breakthrough album that catapulted David Bowie into the international spotlight. Over the past 50 years it has remained a touchstone record, growing in stature with each passing year. It is now ingrained in popular culture, its undeniable influence spanning musicians from Arcade Fire to Lady Gaga, to Harry Styles’s androgynous fashion sense to Noel Fielding’s shirts on The Great British Bake-Off to Ziggy make-up challenges on Tik-Tok. David Bowie laid to rest the Ziggy Stardust persona in July 1973 at his infamous last show with the Spiders From Mars at London’s Hammersmith Odeon, but Ziggy’s impact reverberates to this day.
DAVID BOWIE
THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS
BLU-RAY AUDIO
Five Years – 4:42
Soul Love – 3:34
Moonage Daydream – 4:40
Starman – 4:10
It Ain’t Easy – 2:58
Lady Stardust – 3:22
Star – 2:47
Hang On To Yourself – 2:40
Ziggy Stardust – 3:13
Suffragette City – 3:25
Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide - 2.58
2024 DOLBY ATMOS MIX
2024 STEREO MIX (96 KHZ / 24-BIT PCM)
ORIGINAL 1972 STEREO MIX – 2012 REMASTER (192 KHZ / 24-BIT PCM)
ORIGINAL 1972 STEREO MIX – 2012 REMASTER (48 KHZ / 24-BIT PCM)
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The birthday girl is pictured here 34 years ago with her new beau(ie) attending the Twice Gifted Auction benefit for the American Cancer Society in November 1990. The event took place at the Edward Nachamkin Gallery in NYC.
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