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WATCH THAT MAN
Rock’n’roller, mod, mime artist, hippie – the young David Bowie tried everything in the search for fame before a sci-fi epic inspired his breakthrough hit. But even that would be a false start.
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David Bowie
Intergalactic lullaby, break-up tune, moonshot tie-in, the five-minute, wildly inventive story song began Bowie’s fertile decade of ground-breaking pop.
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THE MAN WHO SAW THE FUTURETHE MAN WHO SAW THE FUTURE
In 1970, David Bowie the one-hit wonder was on the brink of becoming David Bowie the decade-defining artist. The Man Who Sold The World was the album that helped him recalibrate his sound and vision.
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WAYNE KRAMER
We look back at the life and times of a guitarist who, during his years with the legendary MC5 and beyond, kicked out the jams more than most.
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THE BIRTH OF GLAM
The audience at 1970’s Atomic Sunrise Festival was largely indifferent to David Bowie’s new band, Hype, with their Lurex outfits and make-up. But one man wasn’t: Marc Bolan.
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David Bowie
How a young Bowie’s artistic manifesto was captured in three and a half perfect minutes.
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LOVING THE ALIEN
By 1972, glam rock was kicking in but Bowie was still waiting for his big break. And then he hit on the character that would redefine him forever. This is an oral history of The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars.
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ZIGGY IN AMERICA
Just under a year after Ziggy Stardust, Bowie released Aladdin Sane. His last album with the Spiders From Mars, it was a record written on the road, inspired by the USA and steeped in sex, drugs and ruthless ambition.
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ZIGGY'S SUMMER HOLIDAY
After killing Ziggy and breaking up the band, David Bowie holed up in a French castle to record an album of fan-pleasing, critic-baiting 60s covers. This is the inside story of Pin Ups’ creation.
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HIS BARK MATERIALS
Diamond Dogs was the point at which an unsettled David Bowie was shedding his glam-rock skin and shaping up to become the ‘plastic soul’ man of his next album. It was also, he said, “my most difficult album”.
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Joni Mitchell Wows Grammys
Singer-songwriter, 80, leads the cast at the 2024 Awards.
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Reborn In The USA
Glam rock was on its last legs when David Bowie fell hard for soul music, R&B and cocaine. The result was 1975’s Young Americans – the “plastic soul” masterpiece that put him on the map in the US.
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David Bowie
Before his move to Berlin, Bowie got seriously funky on these two tracks, thanks to inspiration from Aretha Franklin, James Brown and his own 17-year-old mistress…
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Modern English
They didn't set out to write commercial songs, but they were happy when they found out their earning power.
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“We were both out of it, all the time”
He’s the guitar hero who connected a milk and cocainefuelled David Bowie with rock’n’roll during the Thin White Duke period. Earl Slick recalls the making of Station To Station, Bowie’s experimental masterpiece.
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ACHTUNG BABY
Holed up in Germany with partner-incrime Iggy Pop, David Bowie released three albums between 1977 and 1979 that redefined him entirely – Low, “Heroes” and Lodger. This is the story of the Berlin Trilogy.
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The Gems
They hope that leaving “toxic” Thundermother will turn out to be a blessing in disguise.
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David Bowie “Heroes”
Although Bowie’s Berlin-period anthem was initially something of a commercial failure, it became his most life-changing single.
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I've' never done anything out of the blue
After the minimalism of his ‘Berlin trilogy’, in 1980 David Bowie and his longtime producer Tony Visconti went all out for a kitchen-sink art-rock album. “We wanted to make our Sgt. Pepper!” The result: Scary Monsters.
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Medicine Head
A duo back in the 60s, MH is now effectively just John Fiddler, whose new album is filled with love.
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FIIKRT LWT'S DANCE
For David Bowie in 1983, art rock and clown suits were in the past. He wanted to become a bona fide superstar – and he would recruit the man nicknamned The Hitmaker to help him achieve that ambition.
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Hang on to yourself
With Let’s Dance, David Bowie had undergone his most successful reinvention – into a truly global pop star. But that sucess brought its own problems – ones that would carry through to the start of the next decade.
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Taylor McCall
If acoustic hymns, weird gospel and “some real ripping guitar” floats your boat, climb aboard.
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Who can i be now ?
Art-funk experimentalist, industrial music enthusiast, drum’n’bass dabbler, internet pioneer, loving husband – the 1990s saw David Bowie trying on countless different hats.
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Heroes just for one day
For one night only in 1997, David Bowie and personally invited stars celebrated his 50th birthday with a show at Madison Square Garden. Here’s how the stardust was sprinkled…
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Led Zeppelin
It may have begun its life as a modest instrumental showcase for drummer John Bonham on Led Zep II, but when he played it live the song took on an epic life of its own.
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Scott Stapp
Returning with a new solo album, the Creed frontman reflects on his darkest times, and why music keeps pulling him through.
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BASIC INSTINCT
Banned from MTV. Drunken shenanigans. USA-upsetting videos. Band members buggering off…After a stylistic detour with previous album Hot Space, with The Works Queen got back to basics, and returned to their rock roots and to the ‘real Queen’ sound.
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Golden years
It started with a triumphant Glastonbury appearance and was curtailed by a mid-tour heart attack. But the early 00s saw David Bowie closer to the peak of his powers than he’d been in years.
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THE BLACK CROWES
The siblings talk about growing up, breaking out, breaking up, making up, love, hate, the pros and cons of success, Snakes, Money Makers and Harmony, dizzying highs (both kinds), heartbreaking lows, lost friends, recriminations, reunions… music and much more.
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THE (DIS)COMFORT ZONE
They almost called it a day back in 2016, but with founder Bruce Soord bringing in creative partner Gavin Harrison The Pineapple Thief are still feeling rejuvenated and regenerated.
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The Resurrection Of David Bowie
Rumours of Bowie’s demise proved to be premature when he released new album The Next Day in March 2013. This is how he made his surprise comeback.
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LIVING AFTER MIDNIGHT
As with many bands of their vintage, plenty believed that Judas Priest would be gone before the 21st century arrived. But with the new Invincible Shield, their third genuinely great album in a row, their late-career purple patch continues.
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"LOOK UP HERE...
On January 8, 2016, David Bowie released his 26th album, Blackstar. Two days later, news of his death was announced. This is how he turned his final exit into one of his greatest works of art.
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BUYER’S GUIDE
Just where is the best place to start with the bewildering extensive back catalogue of one of the greatest popular music artists of all time? From the landmark albums to the forgotten gems, here's our guide…
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The birth of heavy blues
When Jimi Hendrix arrived in London in 1966 he blew the minds of the British rock elite including Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck. Soon, however, they would follow his lead and develop an explosive new form of electric blues...
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EVER MEET LEMMY?
He’s been bitten by Shirley Manson, sung on stage with Alice In Chains, played Bush records to Bono, spent 15 hours a day for months with Tom Jones, lunched with Mr & Mrs David Bowie, is pals with Robert Downey Jr, Carlos Santana said he reminded him of Jim Morrison… He’s Gavin Rossdale, Bush frontman and more, and these are some of his stories.
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Judas Priest
Band’s late-career renaissance continues apace with thundering new album.
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Green Day
The American pop-punks might irk ‘real punks’, but their catalogue has generated sales that spell ‘huge success’.