Bowie Collector: I AM IMAN CD

“I’ll leave my love between the stars”

Firstly, have a great rest of your birthday, Iman, from all of us here at DvidBowie.com, (still three and a half hours to go in New York).

On the occasion of Iman’s birthday we thought it appropriate to follow up on an item regarding her book: The Beauty of Color (2005), which we posted about recently.

The book was promoted with an accompanying very limited edition CD and our post was triggered by Iman’s own Instagram item regarding the book.

The same applies for today’s Bowie Collector feature, following another item on Iman’s Instagram back in February, wherein she credited the beautiful cover photography thus: “The front and back cover of my book I AM IMAN photo by Markus Klinko and Indrani 2000”.

As with The Beauty of Color, the promotion of I AM IMAN (2001) created another of the more collectable Bowie CDs, even if it seems easier to find than the aforementioned follow up. This is most likely down to the fact that a number of copies were available to purchase and win via giveaways through BowieNet.

I AM IMAN is a 5-track compilation CDR, containing the following tracks:

1 - The Wedding (David Bowie)

2 - Wild Is The Wind (Tiomkin/Washington)

3 - Loving The Alien (David Bowie)

4 - As The World Falls Down (David Bowie)

5 - Abdulmajid (David Bowie/Brian Eno)

This promo only private pressing (commissioned and compiled by Bowie), was signed by the man himself with copies of the book signed by Iman.

Again, only 200 copies of the CDR were made, making this another of the rarest Bowie collectables. Both the signed CDR and the signed book make the set and it is considered incomplete by collectors without one or the other.

Stay tuned for more Bowie collectables shortly and feel free to suggest anything you would like us to feature.

#BowieCollector #DavidAndIman #BowieForever

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