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“All you’ve got to do is win…”
Follow the link to TOPSIFY for your chance to win the very tasty vinyl version of David Bowie’s (Five Years 1969 – 1973) box set, signed by the man himself.
You have until 23:59:59 BST on 16 October 2015 to enter.
#FiveYearsBox
“And me I’m on a radio show”
The European allotment of the Pin Ups Radio Show (PURS), which was made available exclusively via the Official David Bowie Online Store with pre-orders of the David Bowie (Five Years 1969 – 1973) box set, has completely sold out.
However, there are still limited quantities of the US consignment, including both the 10″ vinyl and the CD. The 10″ vinyl is available with the vinyl box while the CD version is available with the CD box.
You can order directly via the links below, but do bear in mind the extra charges if you’re outside of the US.
Vinyl Box: http://smarturl.it/FiveYearsUSvinyl
CD Box: http://smarturl.it/FiveYearsUScd
Meanwhile, if you’re signed up to the official David Bowie mailing list, look out for an upcoming contest for your chance to win a 10″ acetate of PURS, or a 10″ test pressing (TP).
Even if you’re not already subscribed, there’s still time to participate by signing up to the official David Bowie mailing list now.
#PURS
“5, 4, 3, 2, 1… Lift Off…”
In the very same week that David Bowie achieved his first ever #1 US single with Fame (September 20th, 1975), RCA issued the Space Oddity EP which would go on to be his first UK #1.
The 3-track EP was released forty years ago today (September 26th, 1975), and that’s the 1975 sheet music and press advert in our montage, along with the new 40th Anniversary Picture Disc.
Though the original 1969 Philips issue furnished Bowie with his first top five hit in the UK, it was the 1975 reissue that gave him his first #1 UK single.
As we mentioned previously, we’re marking this fact with the release of a Space Oddity 40th Anniversary T-shirt/Pic Disc bundle to be released next Friday, October 2nd.
These Tees are produced in particularly limited quantities and you can pre-order yours here now.
Here are the track details:
A-Side
Space Oddity (UK single edit)
(David Bowie)
Produced by Gus Dudgeon and arranged by David Bowie and Paul Buckmaster
AA-Side
Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (single B-side with spoken introduction)
(David Bowie)
Produced by Gus Dudgeon and arranged by David Bowie and Paul Buckmaster
#DavidBowie #SpaceOddity40
“It’s happening Outside”
David Bowie’s 1. Outside album was released on this day in 1995 (26th in the US), the same week that the first single from the album, The Hearts Filthy Lesson, entered the UK Top 40.
The Bowie/Eno/Richards produced LP peaked at #8 on the UK album chart and narrowly missed the US Billboard Top 20 when it reached #21 there.
The release was supported by the remarkable 1995/1996 Outside World Tour (which kicked off on September 14th in Hartford in the US), and a couple of beautifully disturbing videos for The Hearts Filthy Lesson and Strangers When We Meet single releases.
However, the biggest hit from the album, albeit in the shape of a Pet Shop Boys remix, was Hallo Spaceboy which reached #12 on the UK singles chart in March 1996.
Remind yourself just how good an album it is via this link to the deluxe reissue on Spotify.
FOOTNOTE: Speaking of reissues, the Friday Music white vinyl issue of 1. Outside which we told you about last week, will become the first ever double vinyl Bowie studio album.
A single disc version titled Excerpts From Outside was released on vinyl originally, but it omitted several tracks and had edits of others.
#Outside20 #BowieOutside
“Five Years, what a surprise”
As if you didn’t know, David Bowie’s (Five Years 1969 – 1973) box set is released worldwide today and it is a thing of rare beauty: http://smarturl.it/BNet5Years
#FiveYearsBox
“He’s a broken man”
Thirty five years ago David Bowie triumphed on Broadway with his stunning performance in The Elephant Man at The Booth Theatre in New York.
Opening there on 23 September 1980, The Broadway run was preceded by presentations in Denver and Chicago with unanimous praise heaped upon Bowie for his portrayal of John Merrick.
29 July – 3 August 1980 Denver Centre of Performing Arts
5 August 1980 – 31 August 1980 Blackstone Theatre, Chicago
23 September 1980 – 3 January 1981 The Booth Theatre, 222 W. 45th St, New York
Sadly, it seems there is no complete record of the performance and so we have to rely on the snippets of film that do exist and the memories of those who witnessed the play first hand.
Check out Karen Banwell’s (Spaceface) FB page, David Bowie in The Elephant Man, for both of those things.
FOOTNOTE: If you can’t make out the words in the image displayed here, scroll the picture for a larger version of the text.
#BowieElephantMan #BowieOnBroadway #ElephantMan35
“Panthers are steaming, stalking, screaming”
David Bowie writes title track for THE LAST PANTHERS
David Bowie has recorded a brand new original song which will feature in the opening credits for the forthcoming European crime thriller, THE LAST PANTHERS. It is the first time the artist has contributed original music for film or television in twenty years. The track is the result of a meeting of minds between Bowie and the director of the series Johan Renck who met during the filming of the show.
Johan Renck comments:
“I was looking for one of the icons of my youth to write the music for the title sequence, but was presented with a God. His first response was precise, engaged and curious. The piece of music he laid before us embodied every aspect of our characters and the series itself – dark, brooding, beautiful and sentimental (in the best possible incarnation of this word). All along, the man inspired and intrigued me and as the process passed, I was overwhelmed with his generosity. I still can’t fathom what actually happened…”
The six part series, jointly pan-European commission from Sky and CANAL + in France, opens with a daring diamond heist before delving into the dark heart of Europe where a shadowy alliance of gangsters and ‘banksters’ now rule.
THE LAST PANTHERS stars Academy Award nominee and BAFTA winner Samantha Morton alongside double Cesar award winner Tahar Rahim, Croatian star Goran Bogdan and two time Academy Award Nominee, three-time BAFTA winner and Golden Globe winner John Hurt.
The series is produced by France’s Haut et Court TV (‘The Returned’) and the UK’s Warp Films (‘This is England’) and directed by the acclaimed Johan Renck (Bloodline, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead as well as videos by Madonna, New Order, Beyoncé and Lana Del Rey) and was filmed in Marseille, Belgrade, Montenegro and London. THE LAST PANTHERS will screen on CANAL + France and on Sky Atlantic in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Germany and Austria this autumn.
http://smarturl.it/SkyAtlanticTLP http://smarturl.it/CanalPlusTLP
#LastPanthers #NewBowieSong
“The music is outside”
Friday Music will release their fifth Bowie 180g audiophile coloured vinyl for Black Friday on November 27th.
Housed in their trademark tri-fold sleeve, 1. Outside will be released for the first time on vinyl in its entirety. It will be issued as a double album pressed on white vinyl.
A single disc version titled Excerpts From Outside was released on vinyl originally, but it omitted several tracks and had edits of others.
Released in September 1995, the Bowie/Eno/Richards produced album was a Top 10 hit in the UK where it reached #8.
Three singles were released from 1. Outside: The Hearts Filthy Lesson, Hallo Spaceboy and Strangers When We Meet.
Tracklisting:
SIDE ONE
1. LEON TAKES US OUTSIDE
2. OUTSIDE
3. THE HEART’S FILTHY LESSON
4. A SMALL PLOT OF LAND
SIDE TWO
1. SEGUE-BABY GRACE (A HORRID CASSETTE)
2. HALLO SPACEBOY
3. THE MOTEL
4. I HAVE NOT BEEN TO OXFORD TOWN
SIDE THREE
1. NO CONTROL
2. SEGUE-ALGERIA TOUCHSHRIEK
3. THE VOYEUR OF UTTER DESTRUCTION (AS BEAUTY)
4. SEGUE-RAMONA A. STONE/ I AM WITH NAME
5. WISHFUL BEGINNINGS
SIDE FOUR
1. WE PRICK YOU
2. SEGUE-NATHAN ADLER
3. I’M DERANGED
4. THRU’ THESE ARCHITECTS EYES
5. SEGUE-NATHAN ADLER (VERSION #2)
6. STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET
Here are the release dates of all five Bowie albums Friday Music are issuing in 2015:
Heathen (translucent blue) – August 7
Reality (transparent) – September 25
‘hours…’ (translucent blue) – November 20
Earthling (translucent green) – November 27 (Black Friday/RSD release)
1. Outside (white) – November 27 (Black Friday release)
Check out the Friday Music David Bowie store here.
#BowieOutside #BowieBlackFriday #BowieFridayMusic
“I never thought I’d need so many people”
The New York Theatre Workshop has announced full casting for its upcoming world-premiere production of Lazarus. Tony nominee Cristin Milioti (Once) and The Last Ship’s Michael Esper will join the previously announced Michael C. Hall, star of TV’s Dexter and last seen on Broadway in Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
The cast will also include Krystina Alabado (American Idiot), Sophia Anne Caruso (The Sound Of Music: Live), Nicholas Christopher (Whorl Inside A Loop), Lynn Craig (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), Bobby Moreno (Year of the Rooster), Krista Pioppi (Spring Awakening national tour), Charlie Pollock (The Wild Party) and Brynn Williams (Bye Bye Birdie).
Previews begin Nov 18 at New York Theatre Workshop, with a Dec 7 opening night. The show features new songs specially composed by Bowie as well as new arrangements of previously recorded songs.
Read more on playbill.com
#Lazarus
“We’ve got five years, stuck on my eyes”
Following a short break in publication, NME magazine in the UK is back today (Friday) and it’s now free.
The new edition features a page regarding the pictorial content of the David Bowie (Five Years 1969 – 1973) box set due on September 25th.
The article also suggests you should check out this gallery of unseen Bowie pics.
Find out where you can blag a free copy of the world’s favourite music weekly here.
#FreeNME #FiveYearsBox