Lazarus Cast Album out today - Win signed vinyl copy

“And you'll believe you're loving the alien”

To celebrate the release of the Lazarus Cast Album today (Friday), we’ve got a freshly-signed copy of the delicious triple vinyl to give away.

The sleeve is signed by Michael C Hall (Newton), Michael Esper (Valentine) and Sophia Anne Caruso (Girl), who all sing on the album. It’s also signed by Henry Hey, orchestrator, arranger and musical director for Lazarus.

All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is visit the Lazarus Musical FB page, like it and then leave an alien themed message inspired by Thomas Jerome Newton.

The contest closes at midnight UK time on Sunday night and the winner will be announced on the Lazarus Musical FB page on October 24th.

Stream or purchase the album at the following links:

Apple Music: http://smarturl.it/LazarusAM

Spotify: http://smarturl.it/LazarusSp

iTunes: http://smarturl.it/LazarusiT

Amazon: http://smarturl.it/LazarusAmz

HMV: http://smarturl.it/LazarusHMV

David Bowie Store: http://smarturl.it/LazarusDBStore

Limited Edition Color LP: http://smarturl.it/LazarusColorLP

Barnes & Noble: http://smarturl.it/LazarusBN

Google Play: http://smarturl.it/LazarusGP

#LazarusMusical #LazarusLondon #LazarusSoundtrack #Lazarus #TMWFTE #TJNewton

Exclusive: Listen to Killing A Little Time

“I’m lost, In streams of sound”

Following yesterday’s exclusive first plays of When I Met You on BBC Radio 6 Music and No Plan on BBC Radio 2, we are very excited to be able to exclusively bring you the last of the unheard Bowie tracks from the Lazarus Cast Album.

Check out Killing A Little Time below.

You can only listen to the track until it becomes generally available when The Lazarus Cast Album is released this Friday (October 21).

Pre-order here:

iTunes: http://smarturl.it/LazarusiT

Amazon: http://smarturl.it/LazarusAmz

HMV: http://smarturl.it/LazarusHMV

David Bowie Store: http://smarturl.it/LazarusDBStore

Limited Edition Color LP: http://smarturl.it/LazarusColorLP

Barnes & Noble: http://smarturl.it/LazarusBN

Google Play: http://smarturl.it/LazarusGP

#LazarusMusical #LazarusLondon #LazarusSoundtrack #Lazarus #TMWFTE #TJNewton

Japanese release of WCIBN?

“Now. Not tomorrow, It's happening now”

The collectors among you that don’t already know about this, might be happy to learn that today (Oct 19) sees the release of the second of David Bowie‘s era box sets: Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976), in Japan.

As ever, there’s a limited edition version designed for the Japanese market which includes a few desirable extras. Here’s the description from a popular Japanese CD site:

Description

Box Packaging. *Non Japan-made disc. Japanese edition features the followings: a 128-page original booklet featuring talk session, rare photos, production notes, review article on the album, and more / a booklet written in Japanese / a 16-page photo book "GOLDEN YEARS 1973-1976" / a special booklet featuring liner notes coming with the original vinyl release, articles published on magazines, and more / an application card (valid only in Japan).

The 16-page photo book GOLDEN YEARS 1973-1976, is a delightful little volume of Geoff MacCormack Bowie pictures, as hinted at in our montage. (Obviously the Box set itself boasts a Steve Schapiro shot.)

#WCIBNBox #WhoCanIBeNowBox

Reminder: Jeremy Vine first play of No Plan

“I’m lost, In streams of sound”

Following the Shaun Keaveny show’s world exclusive first play of When I Met You on BBC Radio 6 Music this morning (http://smarturl.it/6MusicBrekky), here’s a quick reminder that No Plan has its exclusive first play on BBC Radio 2’s the Jeremy Vine show, which starts at midday.

BBC radio shows can be heard again via the BBC iPlayer.

Shaun Keaveny was so enamoured with When I Met You this morning that he played it again towards the end of the show. BBC Radio 6 Music will now be playing the track throughout the day. Indeed, it’s just been included on Lauren Laverne's Just Added playlist.

The Lazarus Cast Album is due for release on Friday (October 21), four days before previews for the Lazarus Musical start in London.

#LazarusMusical #LazarusLondon #LazarusSoundtrack #Lazarus #TMWFTE #TJNewton

Two exclusive BBC first plays Tomorrow

“You opened my eyes”

As you know, the Lazarus Cast Album is due for release on Friday (October 21), four days before previews for the Lazarus Musical start in London.

Meanwhile, we’re very happy to be able to tell you that the BBC now has exclusive first plays for two of the Bowie originals on the album tomorrow (Tuesday, October 18).

First up, the Shaun Keaveny show on BBC Radio 6 Music has a world exclusive first play of When I Met You. The show starts at 7:00am.

Then No Plan has its exclusive first play on BBC Radio 2’s the Jeremy Vine show which starts at midday.

#LazarusMusical #LazarusLondon #LazarusSoundtrack #Lazarus #TMWFTE #TJNewton

Bowie By O'Neill LA exhibition

“Scanning life through the picture window”

The headline and graphic pretty much say it all. The exhibition runs from October 29 through to November 9 at the Mouche Gallery in LA.

Mouche Gallery

340 N. Beverly Drive

Beverly Hills, CA 90210

Call +1 310-858-8114

Read more about the Bowie By O'Neill book here.

#BOWIEbyONEILL #MoucheGallery

Praise for three final Bowie tracks

“I’ve got a handful of songs to sing”

The #1 best-selling musical soundtrack in the UK right now (according to Amazon), is the Lazarus Cast Album, due for release on October 21, four days before previews for @lazarusmusical start in London.

The Bowie originals on the album have been singled out for praise by both Neil McCormick at The Telegraph and Dorian Lynskey at The Guardian. Here follows edited excerpts from both.

A last message from a lost icon: three more David Bowie tracks released – by Neil McCormick – The Telegraph

No Plan is a gorgeous, slippery jazz ballad, sweet and sad, that sings out with an almost mystically prophetic quality, as if Bowie was reporting from beyond the grave: “All the things that are my life/ My moods/ My beliefs/ My desires/ Me alone/ Nothing to regret/ This is no place, but here I am.”

It is a song evoking the displacement of the production’s central character, Thomas Jerome Newton, The Man Who Fell to Earth, but the line between the alien Newton and Bowie’s alienation has been blurred since he starred in Nicholas Roeg’s 1976 film.

Killing A Little Time is a thrillingly chaotic rocker, unwinding from a long spiel of guitar feedback, rumbling bass and jerky drums, as Bowie’s strangulated vocal evokes fear and rage at his perilous state: “I’m falling man/ I’m choking man/ I’m fading man.”

As the track builds, the jazz sax gets dialled up amidst a cascade of woodwind, and the arrangement gets progressively looser and more disharmonic, whilst Bowie grapples with “this furious brain” evoking “This symphony/ This rage in me”, and proclaiming, “I’ve got a handful of songs to sing/ To stain the soul/ To f--- you over.” If ever there was a song raging against the dying of the light, this is surely it.

The final new song, When I Met You, comes from the end of the play, and offers a welcome sense of solace and relief. It is an off kilter pop ditty, the jaunty melody of a Sixties beat jingle run through a sonic wringer, a rising and descending bass figure and Bowie strumming an out-of-rhythm acoustic guitar.

The song is a loving dedication to someone who has saved the singer from himself: “I was the walking dead/ I was kicked in the head/ I was too insane/ Could not trust the game/ Before I met you.”

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David Bowie’s last three songs: decoding the final transmission - by Dorian Lynskey - The Guardian

Each one has its own flavour. When I Met You is the kind of briskly anthemic, self-quoting rock that Bowie delivered on his 2013 comeback album The Next Day, climbing a ladder of chords to a stirring chorus, until a swarm of overlapping backing vocals knocks it sideways, giving it a stranger, more chaotic quality. Killing a Little Time has the same neurotic momentum as Sue (Or in a Season of Crime) and a touch of Outside’s 1990s industrial clamour, pitching Bowie’s sinisterly theatrical vocal into shrieking, churning jazz-rock. Mark Guiliana’s astonishing, tentacular drumming alone confirms that Bowie’s last band, led by saxophonist Donny McCaslin, was one of his best, capable of anything. Bowie sounds like a man coming apart — “I’m falling, man / I’m choking, man / I’m fading, man” — but it feels like Newton talking. Bowie is just the cracked actor.

The best of the three, No Plan, is also the one most likely to inspire literal readings. It’s an exquisitely lush, star-speckled torch song, which refracts the late-in-life stocktaking of Piaf or Sinatra through the stasis and fatalism of Talking Heads’ Heaven. “All the things that are my life / All my moves, my beliefs, my designs / Me alone, nothing to regret / This is no place but here I am / This is not quite yet,” Bowie croons. Taken alone, it would be a hell of a swansong (“Am I nowhere now?”) but play it beside the feverish discontent of Killing a Little Time and it loses its soothing finality. Again, these are numbers from a musical. They might feel movingly true at times but they’re stories, from a master storyteller.

All pre-orders instantly receive downloads of the cast versions of Life On Mars? (sung by Sophia Anne Caruso) and Lazarus (sung by Michael C. Hall). Don’t forget Jonathan Barnbrook’s animated visuals for both can be viewed here: http://smarturl.it/LazarusLOM and http://smarturl.it/LazarusVevo.

Go here for pre-order links, etc.

Meanwhile, Michael C. Hall will perform on The Andrew Marr Show on BBC One in the UK on Sunday. The programme airs for one hour from 9:00am.

#LazarusMusical #LazarusLondon #LazarusSoundtrack #Lazarus #TMWFTE #TJNewton

A Reality Tour vinyl box out now

“I sped from Planet X to Planet Alpha”

You may remember the Friday Music release of the David Bowie - A Reality Tour 180 Gram Audiophile Translucent Blue Vinyl box set released back in June.

The set, which includes three discs and two posters, is reissued by Sony today (Oct 14) to make it available to a wider audience at a cheaper price. Nice.

#BowieARealityTour #BowieVinyl

Donny McCaslin talks Bowie covers

“And prayer can’t travel so far these days”

As you know, Donny McCaslin’s latest release, Beyond Now, is out today. Donny and his band are the musicians behind the sound of David Bowie’s ★ album.

Here’s an excerpt taken from a piece that we posted from The Guardian earlier this month...

The experience of creating music with Bowie proved so deep, and its aftermath so jarring, that McCaslin decided to turn his new album, Beyond Now, out 14 October, into a tribute. It includes several transformative covers of Bowie songs, including Warszawa from Low, and A Small Plot of Land from Outside, along with a song McCaslin wrote inspired by a piece Bowie left off Blackstar.

The uncommonly tall saxophonist has spoken to us about both of those Bowie covers.

WARSZAWA

We started performing Warszawa in mid-January. It was a raw, difficult time emotionally and playing that song every night was a way to channel all those feelings into the music. As Jason Lindner said, Warszawa was a bridge between David’s music and ours. I knew when we played it in January that I wanted to record it for Beyond Now.

A SMALL PLOT OF LAND

A Small Plot of Land was the suggestion of Beyond Now’s producer, David Binney. There's a great version Mike Garson posted from a performance he did with Bowie in 1995; Bowie’s vocal is tremendous. Jeff Taylor killed the vocal on the new version.

Thank you Mr McCaslin. Stay tuned to Donny’s official page for live dates and the like.

Meanwhile, if you missed his DB Deep Cut Of The Day, check it out here.

FOOTNOTE: All pictures of Donny by Jimmy King. (When we say ALL pictures of Donny by Jimmy King, we don’t mean every picture of Donny that’s ever been taken were taken by Jimmy. But he did take all of the shots for the sleeve of Beyond Now, and, of course, the wonderful picture of Bowie and McCaslin that we’ve used today.)

#BowieMcCaslin #DonnyMcCaslinBeyondNow #BeyondNow

Complete David Bowie launch and signing

“Get me to The Doctor”

Join Titan Books and Nicholas Pegg for the launch of THE COMPLETE DAVID BOWIE (REVISED AND UPDATED 2016 EDITION)

Nick will be signing early release copies of The Complete David Bowie on SATURDAY OCTOBER 22nd at THE ROYAL GEORGE TAVERN from 2pm (please see below for full details). All this to a soundtrack of some of Bowie’s greatest hits and lesser known classics offering a celebration of his untouchable legacy.

Featuring over 70,000 words of new material, Pegg’s critically acclaimed book has been fully revised and updated, offering Bowie fans the most up-to-date encyclopedia of songs, albums, tours, films and videos ever published, from Liza Jane to Blackstar and all points in between.

Copies of the book will be available to purchase at the event.

Saturday October 22nd 2016, 2 – 8pm. Bar open to late.

Downstairs Bar

The Royal George Tavern

133 Charing Cross Rd, London WC2H 0EA

www.theroyalgeorgewc2.co.uk

Nearest tube: Tottenham Court Road – take exit 4 and turn right past Centre Point and then turn right by Starbucks into Gosslett Yard (under 3 minutes walk)

Nearest train station: Charing Cross (10 minutes walk)

“I've already bought four different editions of Nick's book, and now I'm going to have to buy another one - but I'm not complaining. Vital for any Bowie-Nut. Unmissable.” – MARC RILEY, BBC RADIO 6 MUSIC

“Part biblical reference work, part engrossing general read … Nicholas Pegg is one of the foremost minds in Bowieology” – Q

“All Bowie books must now be measured against Nicholas Pegg’s The Complete David Bowie” – TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

“My go-to book for anything to do with Bowie. No other book delivers such fascinating and forensic detail into the great man’s work” – GARY KEMP, SPANDAU BALLET

“A feast for the Bowie fan. Nicholas Pegg’s brilliant labour of love leaves no stone unturned, no shadow unexplored” – MARC ALMOND

FOOTNOTE: You may be aware that Mr Pegg has 'appeared' as a Dalek on Dr Who, more times than you can shake a plunger at. He’s pictured here on an afternoon off, when he purloined the TARDIS and gate-crashed a photo shoot on London’s Heddon Street, early in 1972. Can’t prove it, but it is true.

#CompleteDavidBowie #BowieBook

★ nominated for Q Best Album award

“But we're Absolute beginners”

David Bowie’s ★ has received a Best Album nomination in The StubHub Q Awards 2016 in association with Absolute Radio.

Here’s the full list of nominations:

The 1975 – I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It

Bastille – Wild World

David Bowie – ★

Christine And The Queens – Chaleur Humaine

Coldplay – A Head Full Of Dreams

Vote for your favourite album here.

#QAwards #QBowie

Sotheby’s Bowie/Collector catalogues online

“A love that will last within your art”

On the eve of the Sotheby’s Bowie/Collector Hong Kong highlights preview exhibition, the auction house has posted the three London catalogues for your perusal.

Part I: Modern & Contemporary Art, Evening Auction, 10 November

Catalogue #1

Part II: Modern & Contemporary Art, Day Auction, 11 November

Catalogue #2

Part III: Design: Ettore Sottsass and the Memphis Group, 11 November

Catalogue #3

From 1–10 November, the full collection will be exhibited at Sotheby’s New Bond Street galleries in London, giving fans, collectors, art lovers and experts a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to immerse themselves in the extraordinary range of objects that informed Bowie’s private world.

The London Exhibition:

Tuesday 1 November, 12noon–5pm

Wednesday 2 & Thursday 3 November, 9am–5pm

Friday 4 November, 9am–5pm (with an all-night view)

(Experience Sotheby’s after dark at the Bowie/Collector all night view and enjoy music, talks, film screenings and more*)

Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 November, 10am–5pm

(A weekend of talks dedicated to celebrating David Bowie’s life as an icon, musician and collector*)

Monday 7 to Wednesday 9 November, 9am–5pm

Thursday 10 November, 9am–12noon

* Details of events to be released shortly

All Auctions will be ticketed. To register your interest and for more information, please email: Bowie@sothebys.com

We’ll leave you with details of the Hong Kong highlights preview exhibition.

HONG KONG | 12–15 October

5/F One Pacific Place

88 Queensway, Hong Kong

Opening hours:

10 AM – 6 PM Wed-Fri

11 AM – 5 PM Sat

Go here for more details.

#BowieCollector #BowieArt #BowieSothebys

Behind The Curtain shipping soon

“I'm stuck with a valuable friend”

We’ve been lucky enough to receive a preview copy of David Bowie : Behind The Curtain from the folks at PSG. If you’re familiar with Andrew Kent’s photographs of Bowie, you’ll not be surprised to learn that it’s a thing of absolute beauty.

Here’s the back story explaining that title...

THE STORY

"David Bowie : Behind The Curtain" is a rare, exclusive, intimate, and very candid look at David Bowie during the rise of the Thin White Duke, his Station to Station tour, and numerous larger-than-life stories along the way. In 1975, rock 'n roll photographer Andrew Kent landed the gig of a lifetime. He had been entrusted by Bowie to document, with unfettered access, anything and everything Bowie and his entourage encountered for the next two years. Backstage, on stage, private parties, birthday parties, limos, quiet hotel moments, dressing rooms, Berlin, Paris, New York, London, Helsinki, Moscow.

Also along during the Station to Station tour was an 18 year old Rolling Stone reporter researching a cover story on Bowie named Cameron Crowe. In 1976 Bowie took Iggy Pop, his manager Pat Gibbons, his personal secretary Coco, and Kent on an impromptu excursion by train to the Soviet Union. A mistake on the schedule at the train station caused the group to miss their return train to Helsinki leading the press to run frenzied headlines reading, "David Bowie Missing in Soviet Union!". With his unprecedented access, Kent created a one-of-a-kind travelogue, capturing the unique and spectacular life of one of the most iconic musicians in rock 'n roll history.

The book is available in three formats...

First Edition : $59.95. Hardcover, 11 x 13.5 x 0.8 inches, 160 pages.

Collectors’ Edition : $1,500. Hardcover, 11 x 13.5 inches, 160 pages. The Collector's Edition box (see photos below) is an exclusive work of art limited to just 100 numbered copies. Each box is hand made by artisan craftsmen in Chicago; the box itself is solid Birdseye maple with ebony splining and lined with luxurious black leather. The box lid is numbered and engraved with a precision laser. Once opened, the box lid and base convert into a simple, but elegant, coffee table display for the book. But the trick is opening the box...which is locked, but has no apparent keyhole. The only way to open it is by using the "key" - a separate piece of wood (carved by hand) with magnetic inlays that correspond to magnets hidden inside the lid. Simple, but complex, with a secret or two...much like Bowie himself.

Edition of Five : $5,000. Hardcover, 11 x 13.5 inches, 160 pages. The Edition of Five is a very exclusive edition of this collector's item limited to a total of 5 numbered copies. In addition to everything included in the Collector's Edition, the Edition of Five also has included on the title page of the book an original, and very rare, backstage pass from the Station to Station tour in 1976.

Go here to peruse some of the images contained within the book and order the edition of your choice.

Swipe/scroll (or click on little dots) for images of the extraordinary Collectors’ Edition box, plus a 1976 picture of David Bowie and Iggy Pop in Red Square in Moscow, and David with drummer Dennis Davis looking on, prior to a show in Berlin the same year.

#BowieBehindTheCurtain #DBBTCbook #AndrewKentBowie

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LOM (2016 mix) on BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music

“Oh man! Look at those cavemen go”

As we told you recently, all formats of the upcoming BOWIE - LEGACY best of compilation feature a previously unreleased version of the classic 1971 Hunky Dory track, Life On Mars?, remixed by its original producer, Ken Scott.

For those of you that have access to BBC Radio, the track will be premiering on the Radio 2 Arts Show with Jonathan Ross at 10:00pm tonight (Thursday).

Then tomorrow, BBC Radio 6 Music has Matt Everitt in conversation with Ken Scott on the Shaun Keaveny show. The show starts at 7:00am tomorrow (Friday), though the Ken Scott bit is scheduled for approx. 7:40am.

Read more about BOWIE - LEGACY here.

#BowieLegacy #BowieKenScott #BowieLOM

Bowie lipograph up for auction tonight

“Lipstick traces on his name”

If you’re at RANSOM ART Gallery for the Bowie By O'Neill book launch and signing party tonight (Wednesday), which we mentioned a couple of days ago, you might want to pop along to see your bank manager first.

Up for auction at the event is one of the more exciting pieces of Bowie memorabilia, long-desired by Bowie collectors the world over.

If you don’t know about the Bowie lipograph, keep reading...

RANSOM ART Presents…

A charity auction and the unique opportunity to own an extraordinary piece of Bowie memorabilia!

To coincide with Bowie by O’Neill book launch, on Wednesday 5th October RANSOM ART will be auctioning an incredible piece of history for a great cause. The auction will give bidders the unique opportunity to own a signed ‘lipograph’ by David Bowie. The framed piece includes a photograph of David Bowie performing and a piece of card with Bowie’s lip print, signed and dated 1979. The inscription reads: “The lips part like silence set for alarm – Bo. ’79.”

This eccentric and fascinating piece of Bowie memorabilia was contributed to a celebrity auction at Sotheby’s London in June 1979 for ‘Save the Children’, who were celebrating their Diamond Jubilee year. Other celebrities who donated similar lipographs included Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, Jack Nicholson, Peter Ustinov and Mick Jagger. Sotheby’s sold the entire collection with Mick Jagger’s fetching the highest price.

The ingenious idea was later extended to a book format. With Love From… (1980), published by A&W Publishers included reproductions of many of the lipographs which were available at the 1979 auction, as well as others which were specially acquired. In the forward for the book, it is stated that David Bowie himself was the inspiration behind the charity auction. While in London, Bowie received a box of a makeup as a gift from the American cosmetic and perfumery brand Charles of the Ritz. He returned a card baring his lip prints with a thank you note to the company. It did not take long for word to get out and soon everyone wanted to purchase the lipograph, and the idea for a charity auction was born.

In the spirit of the original auction, RANSOM ART will make a contribution to the Foundation for Liver Research. The foundation was established in 1974 to develop and extend research into diseases of the human liver and to enhance medical research generally. For over 30 years the Foundation has supported ground-breaking research programmes into liver disease under the direction of Professor Roger Williams, CBE. This work is carried out within the purpose-built Institute of Hepatology located in central London. The Institute provides laboratory space for up to 40 scientists and is affiliated to Birkbeck College, University of London.

The photograph of David Bowie performing is actually an Andy Kent shot from rehearsals for the ISOLAR world tour in Vancouver, 1976. Swipe/scroll (or click on little dots) to see the framed image.

Tonight’s event takes place between 18:00 and 21:00 when Terry O'Neill himself will be on hand to sign stuff. Perhaps you might need to borrow his pen to sign a cheque for the winning bid?

RANSOM ART Gallery

105 Pimlico Road

London, SW1W 8PH

RSVP || rsvp@markransom.co.uk || tel: (+44) 20 7259 0220 || www.markransom.co.uk

@RansomArt @terryoneillofficial @iconicimagesnet

#RansomArt #MarkRansom #BOWIEbyONEILL #IconicImages

Donny McCaslin’s DB Deep Cut Of The Day

““You know who I am,” he said”

You all know Donny McCaslin and his band via the magnificent work they contributed to David Bowie’s Blackstar album.

For our last DBDCOTD, we suspected Catherine Russell might opt for one of Bowie’s more jazz-flavoured recordings, given her own jazz leanings. But instead she went for Joe The Lion, from "Heroes".

So, despite his own jazz credentials, we made no assumptions this time. Donny has chosen the superb Look Back In Anger from 1979’s Bowie/Visconti-produced Lodger album.

Promoted by the David Mallet directed video for the song, the track was released as an A-side 45 in the US and Canada in August, 1979.

With a nod to Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, the video may not have been a contributing factor to the record’s commercial failure. However, it’s hard to deny that as the film progressed Bowie wasn’t at his prettiest (see accompanying screen grab), albeit a look only achieved with the aid of make-up. Despite this, it’s a great video well worth a look.

Look Back In Anger was a live favourite, even kicking off proceedings for many of the 1983 Serious Moonlight shows.

Anyway, here Donny explains why he finds the song so special...

“I've been listening to Look Back In Anger recently and loving it. The urgency of the song hits me immediately. Drummer Dennis Davis is wailing on it from the beginning and David's vocal is great. I love the strength of the melody he wrote and the triumphant way he sings it. Also I'm drawn to the way they orchestrated the sustained chords throughout, which is a great counterpoint to the busy bass line and drum groove.

The guitar "squawks" remind me of something similar from Blackstar.

After the guitar solo I dig how the bass goes to a new level of depth and resonance. It makes the whole song feel bigger and more climactic. Also, the acoustic piano's rhythmic jabs bring a great addition to the sonic landscape and build to the end. Great production on this.

Lodger is a great, perhaps underappreciated, album worth a close look. Enjoy!”

Donny McCaslin - September 2016

Thanks Donny, excellent choice.

If you’ve not heard the song, treat yourself here. See if you can spot Brian Eno on Synthesizer, Horse Trumpets and Eroica horn?

Meanwhile Donny releases his latest album, Beyond Now, in ten days. Here’s an excerpt from a piece about it taken from today’s Guardian...

The experience of creating music with Bowie proved so deep, and its aftermath so jarring, that McCaslin decided to turn his new album, Beyond Now, out 14 October, into a tribute. It includes several transformative covers of Bowie songs, including Warszawa from Low, and A Small Plot of Land from Outside, along with a song McCaslin wrote inspired by a piece Bowie left off Blackstar. (That track, plus two other cuts that didn’t make that release, will come out on 21 October on the cast album from the musical Bowie wrote in his last year, Lazarus).

Read the full piece here. Keep up to date with all of Donny’s shenanigans, here on his FB page.

#DBDCOTD #BowieDeepCut #BowieMcCaslin

Terry O’Neill London book signing

“I asked for an autograph”

If you’re in London on October 5th (Wednesday), you might want to pop along to RANSOM ART Gallery for the Bowie By O'Neill book launch and signing party.

The event takes place between 18:00 and 21:00 when Terry O'Neill himself will be on hand with his favourite pen...not to mention a promise of Champagne and canapés.

This is hot on the heels of the recent private view, from where you can watch this video.

DAVID BOWIE is Tokyo tickets on sale

“David Bowie is under Japanese influence”

Tickets for DAVID BOWIE IS at Warehouse TERRADA G1 Building in Tokyo are now available.

The Tokyo exhibition commences Sunday 8th January and runs through to Sunday 9th April 2017.

Takeshi Kitano and Ryuichi Sakamoto, co-stars of Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, talk about David Bowie in a brand new special Japanese section, exclusive to the Tokyo Exhibition.

Go here for more information and ticket links. Keep reading for the press release.

#ボウイ展 #DBisTokyo #BowieTokyo #DavidBowieIs

Pre-sale tickets available to purchase from 3rd October

Takeshi Kitano and Ryuichi Sakamoto, co-stars of ‘Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence’, talk about David Bowie in a brand new special Japanese section, exclusive to the Tokyo Exhibition!

Venue: Warehouse TERRADA G1 building

Period : 8th January to 9th April 2017

The ‘DAVID BOWIE is’ Japan Exhibition Committee will host ‘DAVID BOWIE is’, the first international exploration of the extraordinary career of David Bowie, one of the most pioneering and influential performers of modern times.

The exhibition opens on the 8th January 2017, the day that would have been Bowie’s 70th birthday. Exclusive to the exhibition in Tokyo will be an additional section, which will showcase brand new interviews with Takeshi Kitano and Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bowie’s co-stars in the film “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence” (directed by Nagisa Oshima, 1983). They will be talking about David Bowie and looking back at one of the first collaborations between David Bowie and Japanese creators. This section will explore the emotion, the creativity, and the aesthetic sensitivities which Bowie revealed to a Japanese audience.

From today, 3rd October (Monday), pre-sale tickets for the first three days of the exhibition (ie. 8th – 10th January 2017) are available for purchase from the official website (www.DAVIDBOWIEis.jp). General ticket sales will commence on the 28th October. The official exhibition SNS accounts (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram: ID @davidbowieisjp) have also launched today, bringing you up-to-date exhibition information and unique opportunities that fans should not miss!

The exhibition ‘DAVID BOWIE is’ was created by the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London in 2013. The exhibition looks back on David Bowie’s creative processes over the past 50 years by showing not only over 300 objects but also through a unique “Sound and Vision” experience. Seen by 1.5 million people worldwide at venues in London, Toronto, Sao Paolo, Berlin, Chicago, Paris, Melbourne, Groningen and Bologna, ‘DAVID BOWIE is’ comes exclusively to Tokyo, its only Asian venue.

EXHIBITION PERIOD

Sunday 8th January to Sunday 9th April 2017

OPENING HOURS

Mon - Closed (except open on 9th January, 20th March, 27th March and 3rd April)

Tue, Wed, Thu - 10am – 8pm

Fri - 10am – 9pm

Sat, Sun - 10am – 8pm

● The doors close one hour prior to the closing time

VENUE

Warehouse TERRADA G1 Building

Address: 2-6-10, Higashi-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo

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WCIBN? enters UK vinyl chart at #3

“Who can I be now? You found me”

Congratulations are due to everybody involved with the creation of the second of David Bowie‘s era box sets: Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976). The set has entered the UK’s Official Vinyl Album Chart at #3. (30 September 2016 - 06 October 2016)

The following four Bowie albums are currently in the UK’s Official Vinyl Album Chart Top 40.

03 - WHO CAN I BE NOW? - 1974-1976 - PARLOPHONE

14 - THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST - PARLOPHONE

28 - HUNKY DORY - PARLOPHONE

37 - CHANGESONEBOWIE - PARLOPHONE

Check out the current Official Vinyl Album Chart here.

The WCIBN? box is also at #17 on the Official Physical Albums Chart Top 100, which includes vinyl and CDs. It is also at #21 in the general Official Albums Chart Top 100, which includes all versions, digital and physical.

No doubt these placings were helped by some of the appreciation that has appeared since the release last week, Including 5 out of 5 reviews in both THE GUARDIAN and THE TELEGRAPH. The set was also given 4 out of 5 reviews by UNCUT, MOJO and the DAILY MAIL.

We’ll leave you with online links to some of those.

THE GUARDIAN: 5 out of 5 - David Bowie: Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976) review – an artist on the edge. By Alexis Petridis

THE TELEGRAPH: 5 out of 5 - David Bowie's lost 70s album The Gouster is like the holy grail of pop. By Neil McCormick

DAILY MAIL: 4 out of 5 - David Bowie's excellent 'Who Can I Be Now?' bristles with restlessness and paranoia. By Adrian Thrills

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BOWIE - LEGACY compilation due November

“I can still hear some pop...popular musics, And aftershocks.”

BOWIE - LEGACY will be released via Parlophone in November. The album collects together a selection of Bowie’s most popular tracks and singles, from 1969’s ‘Space Oddity’, through to the final singles ‘Lazarus’ and ‘I Can’t Give Everything Away’, issued earlier this year.

BOWIE - LEGACY will be available as a 1 CD and a Deluxe 2 CD from November 11th. These will be followed by a double vinyl album version on January 6th, 2017. (Tracklistings below)

All formats of BOWIE - LEGACY feature a previously unreleased version of the classic 1971 Hunky Dory track, ‘Life On Mars?’, remixed by its original producer Ken Scott.

From his very first recordings over fifty years ago, right through to his last album Blackstar, David Bowie was at the vanguard of contemporary culture as a musician, artist, icon and a constant influence on generations of writers, artists and designers. He was, and remains, a unique presence in contemporary culture.

Bowie left a legacy of inspiration in every discipline from art and fashion to acting and beyond. But, it is for his ground-breaking music that he will be best remembered.

BOWIE - LEGACY is an introduction to a world of incredible music, just waiting to be enjoyed by a whole new generation.

Pre-order via the links below.

iTunes Standard

iTunes Deluxe

Amazon Standard (1CD)

Amazon Deluxe (2CD)

Amazon Vinyl

Full set of Amazon products

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BOWIE - LEGACY 1 CD Track Listing

1/ Let's Dance (single version) (4.08)

2/ Ashes To Ashes (single version) (3.35)

3/ Under Pressure – Queen & David Bowie (4.04)

4/ Life On Mars? (2016 mix) (3.37)

5/ Changes (3.35)

6/ Oh! You Pretty Things (3.11)

7/ The Man Who Sold The World (3.58)

8/ Space Oddity (5.12)

9/ Starman (original single mix) (4.12)

10/ Ziggy Stardust (3.12)

11/ The Jean Genie (original single mix) (4.05)

12/ Rebel Rebel (4.30)

13/ Golden Years (single version) (3.27)

14/ Dancing In The Street - David Bowie & Mick Jagger (3.11)

15/ China Girl (single version) (4.15)

16/ Fame (4.16)

17/ Sound And Vision (3.03)

18/ "Heroes" (single version) (3.33)

19/ Where Are We Now? (4.09)

20/ Lazarus (radio edit) (4.05)

BOWIE - LEGACY 2 CD Track Listing

CD1

1/ Space Oddity (5.12)

2/ The Man Who Sold The World (3.58)

3/ Changes (3.35)

4/ Oh! You Pretty Things (3.11)

5/ Life On Mars? (2016 mix) (3.37)

6/ Starman (original single mix) (4.12)

7/ Ziggy Stardust (3.12)

8/ Moonage Daydream (4.40)

9/ The Jean Genie (original single mix) (4.05)

10/ All The Young Dudes (3.09)

11/ Drive-In Saturday (4.29)

12/ Sorrow (2.53)

13/ Rebel Rebel (4.30)

14/ Young Americans (original single edit) (3.14)

15/ Fame (4.16)

16/ Golden Years (single version) (3.27)

17/ Sound And Vision (3.03)

18/ "Heroes" (single version) (3.33)

19/ Boys Keep Swinging (3.17)

20/ Ashes To Ashes (single version) (3.35)

21/ Fashion (single version) (3.25)

CD 2:

1/ Under Pressure – Queen & David Bowie (4.04)

2/ Let's Dance (single version) (4.08)

3/ China Girl (single version) (4.15)

4/ Modern Love (single version) (3.56)

5/ Blue Jean (3.11)

6/ This Is Not America - with The Pat Metheny Group (3.51)

7/ Dancing In The Street - David Bowie & Mick Jagger (3.11)

8/ Absolute Beginners (edit) (4.46)

9/ Jump They Say (radio edit) (3.53)

10/ Hallo Spaceboy (PSB Remix) - with The Pet Shop Boys (4.23)

11/ Little Wonder (edit) (3.40)

12/ I’m Afraid Of Americans (V1 edit) (4.25)

13/ Thursday’s Child (radio edit) (4.25)

14/ Slow Burn (radio edit) (3.57)

15/ Everyone Says ‘Hi’ (edit) (3.29)

16/ New Killer Star (radio edit) (3.42)

17/ Where Are We Now? (4.09)

18/ Lazarus (radio edit) (4.05)

19/ I Can’t Give Everything Away (radio edit) (4.25)

BOWIE - LEGACY 2 VINYL LP Track Listing (Released January 6th 2017)

Side 1:

1/ Let's Dance (single version) (4.08)

2/ Ashes To Ashes (single version) (3.35)

3/ Under Pressure – Queen & David Bowie (4.04)

4/ Life On Mars? (2016 mix) (3.37)

5/ Changes (3.35)

Side 2:

1/ Oh! You Pretty Things (3.11)

2/ The Man Who Sold The World (3.58)

3/ Space Oddity (5.21)

4/ Starman (original single mix) (4.12)

5/ Ziggy Stardust (3.12)

Side 3:

1/ The Jean Genie (original single mix) (4.05)

2/ Rebel Rebel (4.30)

3/ Golden Years (single version) (3.27)

4/ Dancing In The Street - David Bowie & Mick Jagger (3.11)

5/ China Girl (single version) (4.15)

Side 4:

1/ Fame (4.16)

2/ Sound And Vision (3.03)

3/ "Heroes" (single version) (3.33)

4/ Where Are We Now? (4.09)

5/ Lazarus (radio edit) (4.05)