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Album release: ★ (Blackstar)

Joe — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 09:00:27 +0000

Blackstar, or ★, was David Bowie’s final album and masterpiece. It was released on the singer’s 69th birthday, 8 January 2016, two days before he died. The single ‘Blackstar’ went on sale as a digital download ahead of the album, on 19 November 2015. Already by January 8 they’re going to hear ‘Blackstar’, which isn’t typical of the album but it is typical in the sense that Bowie’s changed again. When ‘Where Are We Now?’ came out I knew that people were almost going to have a heart attack because he’s silent for 10 years, then on the morning of

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Single release: Lazarus

Joe — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 09:00:52 +0000

David Bowie’s ‘Lazarus’ was released as a digital download on 17 December 2015. On the same day, it received its world premiere on BBC Radio 6 Music’s Steve Lamacq show. ‘Lazarus’ topped the singles chart in Poland, and entered the top 10 in Belgium, Hungary, Israel, New Zealand, and on the USA’s Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart. It reached number 40 in the US Billboard Hot 100, and in the UK it peaked at 45. The video for the song, directed by Johan Renck, premiered on 7 January 2016, the day before the release of the Blackstar album. On 8

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Single release: ★ (Blackstar)

Joe — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 09:00:25 +0000

David Bowie’s song ★ (‘Blackstar’) was released as a digital download on 19 November 2015, the same day that the video was released on David Bowie’s YouTube and Vevo channels. The song had originally been more than 11 minutes long, but was edited to 9:57 after Bowie and Tony Visconti learned that iTunes would not allow tracks for individual sale that lasted longer than 10 minutes. It’s total bullshit, but David was adamant it be the single, and he didn’t want both an album version and a single version, since that gets confusing. Tony Visconti Rolling Stone, 23 November 2015

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Single release: Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)

Joe — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 09:00:37 +0000

David Bowie’s single ‘Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)’ was released as a digital download on 17 November 2014. It was issued as a 10″ vinyl single on the same day in the United Kingdom, and on the compilation Nothing Has Changed. The song had been premiered on Guy Garvey’s BBC Radio 6 Music show on 12 October. In the USA, a 10″ single with different artwork was issued on 28 November, for the Black Friday version of Record Store Day. The album features Bowie’s first new music since he stunned the world with the critically lauded ‘THE NEXT

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Single release: ’Tis A Pity She Was A Whore

Joe — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 09:00:14 +0000

David Bowie’s demo recording of ‘’Tis A Pity She Was A Whore’ was released as a digital download on 10 November 2014. It received its radio premiere on BBC Radio 6 Music on the morning of 10 November, on Shaun Keaveny’s breakfast show. The song came out one week before the ‘Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)’ single, on which it appeared as a b-side. You know, the song that’s the b-side to ‘Sue’ was ‘’Tis A Pity She Was A Whore’, and that original version of the song – in demo form – was David. He had played

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Album release: The Next Day

Joe — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 09:00:12 +0000

The Next Day, David Bowie’s 24th and penultimate studio album, was released on 8 March 2013, a full decade after his previous album Reality. The single ‘Where Are We Now?’ was released without promotion or publicity at 5am GMT on the morning of 8 January 2013, Bowie’s 66th birthday. The singer had been mostly out of the public eye since the end of A Reality Tour in 2004, and had not released any new music since the previous year’s Reality. There had been rumours of ill-health and retirement, and expectations of new music were low. The video for ‘Where Are

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Single release: Where Are We Now?

Joe — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:00:03 +0000

David Bowie’s ‘Where Are We Now?’ was released without promotion or publicity on 8 January 2013, Bowie’s 66th birthday. Bowie had been mostly out of the public eye since the end of A Reality Tour in 2004, and had not released any new music since the previous year’s Reality. There had been rumours of ill-health and retirement, and expectations of new music were low. ‘Where Are We Now?’ was released without advance publicity at 5am GMT on the morning of 8 January 2013. The video went live on Bowie’s YouTube and VEVO channels, followed by news of the forthcoming album

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Album release: A Reality Tour

Joe — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:00:54 +0000

A Reality Tour, a recording from David Bowie’s final tour, was released on DVD in 2004, and on CD, vinyl and digital download on 25 January 2010. The recordings were from his concerts at the Point Depot in Dublin, Ireland, on 22 and 23 November 2003. A number of bonus tracks were included on the audio releases. The CD and vinyl versions added three songs to the end of the set, and the digital download – which went on sale two weeks after the physical edition – added two extra songs. A Reality Tour was not a great seller – its highest

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Album release: VH1 Storytellers

Joe — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:00:11 +0000

VH1 Storytellers, David Bowie’s sixth live album, was released on 6 July 2009. The album contained a live performance originally broadcast a decade earlier on the VH1 television show Storytellers. It was Bowie’s final live performance with guitarist Reeves Gabrels, and his first with drummer Sterling Campbell. VH1 Storytellers featured various lesser-performed songs from Bowie’s past. The oldest was ‘Can’t Help Thinking About Me’, written in 1965 and released the following January as a single by David Bowie with the Lower Third. There were also performances of ‘Drive-In Saturday’ and ‘Word On A Wing’, which Bowie had not played live

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Album release: Live Santa Monica ’72

Joe — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:00:21 +0000

Live Santa Monica ’72, a live album by David Bowie, was given a first official release on 30 July 2008. The concert recording had originally been broadcast in 1972 by KMET-FM, and had been widely bootlegged. It was unofficially released in the UK in 1994 as Santa Monica ’72, and the following year in the US. The recording was remastered and officially issued by EMI in 2008 as Live Santa Monica ’72, with some brief sleeve notes by Bowie: I can tell that I’m totally into being Ziggy by this stage of our touring. It’s no longer an act; I

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