Month: July 2016

 

“Like the video films we saw”

 

The 2016 MTV Video Music Awards will air live from New York’s Madison Square Garden on Sunday, August 28 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT.

David Bowie videos have been nominated in the following four categories:

 

BEST ART DIRECTION

David Bowie – “Blackstar” (Production Designer: Jan Houllevigue)

 

BEST DIRECTION

David Bowie – “Lazarus” (Director: Johan Renck)

 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

David Bowie – “Lazarus” (Cinematographer: Crille Forsberg)

 

BEST EDITING

David Bowie – “Lazarus” (Editor: Johan Söderberg)

 

Congratulations to all of the above for their nominations. Vote here now.

 

#BowieMTVVMAs  #BowieMTV

 

“While tens of thousands found me in demand…”

 

UNCUT magazine in the UK has posted a version of Rock ‘n’ Roll With Me online, that hasn’t had a public airing for over forty years.

Released as a promo 7″ to American radio stations in September, 1974, this is the ‘Short Version’ single edit of the longer David Live track.

Originally recorded for Diamond Dogs, Rock ‘n’ Roll With Me was “accidentally” co-written with Warren Peace (Geoff MacCormack), who is pictured with David in our montage.

Geoff explains the genesis of the song at David’s Oakley Street home…

 

“The ground floor housed a large kitchen; the first floor a double lounge area with a grand piano at one end and a television at the other; the other floors above contained various bedrooms, an office and a music room with an upright piano. It was on the upright that I accidentally wrote a song with David.

One evening I had nothing to do and nobody to play with so I thought I’d go and annoy David. When I got to Oakley Street he was enjoying a short break from writing. He was stuck on a song idea so we made some coffee and chewed the fat.

After a while, just for something to do, I decided to tinkle the upright’s ivories. I played this half-arsed melody I had devised and David came over and asked me to play it again. I was fully aware that it was no masterpiece but duly obliged. ‘Let’s have a go,’ he said. We swapped places and he began to play my little tune. After a couple of run-throughs, and to my amazement, he ran through my little bit and straight into a killer chorus that went, ‘When you rock ‘n’ roll with me, there’s no one else I’d rather be…’

It was about this time that I changed my name to Warren Peace, partly because I thought it a good name for an impostor, and partly because it felt like I was the last person in London or New York without an alias. That’s how my name appears on the credits.”

 

The track will appear on Re:Call 2 the compilation of single versions and non-album B-sides (which coincidentally features a wonderful shot by Geoff of David in the studio on its cover), from the forthcoming Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976) box set.

We will be posting more exclusive content from the box over the coming weeks, but meanwhile go here for the full list of contents.

 

#WCIBNBox  #WhoCanIBeNowBox

 

“We played our songs and felt the London sky”

 

The headline says it all, tickets for the London run of Lazarus are on sale here now.

 

Continue reading for venue details and dates.

 

LAZARUS

BY David Bowie and Enda Walsh

DIRECTION Ivo van Hove

INSPIRED BY THE NOVEL The Man Who Fell To Earth by Walter Tevis

 

WHEN

25 October 2016 – 22 January 2017

 

Tuesday to Saturday at 8pm

Wednesday, Saturday & Sunday matinees at 3pm

 

WHERE

Kings Cross Theatre, Kings Boulevard, London, N1C 4BU

[The entrance is located on King’s Boulevard by Battlebridge Place, directly outside King’s Cross Underground Station.]

 

TICKETS

Tickets from £15

0333 320 1663 / http://smarturl.it/LazarusLondon

 

BACKGROUND

Inspired by the book, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Lazarus focuses on Thomas Newton, as he remains still on Earth – a ‘man’ unable to die, his head soaked in cheap gin and haunted by a past love. We follow Newton during the course of a few days where the arrival of another lost soul – might set him finally free.

 

Lazarus premiered at the New York Theatre Workshop from 18 November 2015 until 20 January 2016 and sold out in record time.

 

Reprising their roles from the original New York production are Michael C Hall, Michael Esper and Sophia Anne Caruso. Full casting will be announced at a later date.

 

Produced by Robert Fox Ltd. and Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment

 

DIRECTOR Ivo van Hove

SCENIC AND LIGHTING DESIGN Jan Versweyveld

COSTUME DESIGN An D’Huys

VIDEO DESIGN Tal Yarden

SOUND DESIGN Original sound design Brian Ronan – UK Sound design Tony Gayle

MUSIC DIRECTOR Henry Hey

CHOREOGRAPHY Annie-B Parson

HAIR AND WIG DESIGN Richard Mawbey

MUSIC FIXER Bob Knight

CASTING Jill Green

 

#LazarusMusical  #LazarusLondon  #Lazarus  #TMWFTE  #TJNewton  

 

“Putting on a face that’s new”

 

As we mentioned yesterday, the follow up to Parlophone’s award-winning box set, David Bowie – Five Years (1969 – 1973), will be David Bowie – Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976), which will be released on September 23rd.

Aside from the box cover and contents pictured here, there is detail from the hardback book contained in the set, in the form of a hand-written note by David Bowie pertaining to the original intended content of ‘THE GOUSTER’.

We will be posting more exclusive content from the box over the coming weeks, but meanwhile here’s the full list of contents.

 

#WCIBNBox  #WhoCanIBeNowBox

 

DAVID BOWIE – ‘WHO CAN I BE NOW? (1974 – 1976)’

 

The 2nd IN A SERIES OF DAVID BOWIE BOX SETS – RELEASED 23RD SEPTEMBER, 2016

CD, DIGITAL AND AUDIOPHILE VINYL BOX SETS FEATURE THE PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ALBUM ‘THE GOUSTER’

 

22nd July, 2016 London

 

Parlophone Records are proud to announce DAVID BOWIE ‘WHO CAN I BE NOW? (1974 – 1976)’ the second in a series of box sets spanning his career from 1969.

 

The follow up to the awarding winning and critically acclaimed DAVID BOWIE ‘FIVE YEARS (1969 – 1973)’ will be released on 23rd September and will contain the previously unreleased album from 1974 called ‘THE GOUSTER’.

 

The twelve CD box, thirteen-piece vinyl set and digital download features the material officially released by Bowie during the so-called ‘American’ phase of his career from 1974 to 1976.

 

The box set, which is named after a track recorded in 1974 but not officially released until the 1990’s, includes ‘DIAMOND DOGS’, ‘DAVID LIVE’ (in original and 2005 mixes), ‘YOUNG AMERICANS’ and ‘STATION TO STATION’ (in original and 2010 mixes) as well as ‘THE GOUSTER’, ‘LIVE NASSAU COLISEUM 76’ and a new compilation ‘RE:CALL 2’ a collection of single versions and non-album b-sides.

 

All of the formats include tracks that have never before appeared on CD/vinyl/digitally as well as new remasters.

 

Exclusive to each of the box sets is the previously unreleased as a complete album ‘THE GOUSTER’ that was recorded at Sigma Sound, Philadelphia in 1974 and produced by Tony Visconti. The album was mixed and mastered before David decamped to New York to work with John Lennon and Harry Maslin on what became the ‘YOUNG AMERICANS’ album. ‘THE GOUSTER’ contains three previously unreleased mixes of ‘Right’, ‘Can You Hear Me’ and ‘Somebody Up There Likes Me’.

 

For the 2016 release, Tony Visconti has overseen the mastering from the original tapes and photos taken by Eric Stephen Jacobs have been put together for the sleeve based around one of David’s original concepts for the album.

 

Also exclusive to the CD, vinyl, standard digital and MFiT box sets will be the remastered ‘DAVID LIVE (original mix)’, the 2010 Harry Maslin mix of ‘STATION TO STATION’ (previously only available on an audio only DVD in 5.1 and stereo as part of the ‘STATION TO STATION’ Deluxe box set in 2010) and ‘RE:CALL 2’.

 

This new compilation features the original single mix of ‘Rebel Rebel’, which has only featured on a 40th anniversary picture disc in 2014 since its original release on single in 1974, and a previously unreleased on CD Australian single edit of ‘Diamond Dogs’, the only place in the world that this edit was issued. Also appearing on CD for the first time is the single edit of the live version of ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll With Me’, which was issued to radio stations in the U.S. to help promote the ‘DAVID LIVE’ album.

 

‘RE:CALL 2’ features newly originated artwork with 1975 in-studio images from the ‘STATION TO STATION’ recording sessions by David’s friend and backing vocalist Geoff MacCormack aka Warren Peace.

 

The alternative cover for the 2010 mix of ‘STATION TO STATION’ by Harry Maslin, features the originally intended colour sleeve for the album that never got further than a few colour proofs and was replaced by the more familiar black and white image.

 

The vinyl box set has the same content as the CD set and is pressed on audiophile quality 180g vinyl.

 

The 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 Eric Stephen Jacobs, Tom Kelley, Geoff MacCormack, Terry O’Neill, Steve Schapiro, and many others as well as historical press reviews and technical notes about the albums from producers Tony Visconti and Harry Maslin.

 

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.

 

 

DAVID BOWIE ‘WHO CAN I BE NOW? (1974-1976)’

 

LP Box Set:

84 Page hardback book

Diamond Dogs (remastered) (1 LP)

David Live (original mix) (remastered) (2 LP) *

David Live (2005 mix) (remastered) (3 LP)

The Gouster (previously unreleased as an album) (1 LP) *

Young Americans (remastered) (1 LP)

Station To Station (remastered) (1 LP)

Station To Station (Harry Maslin 2010 mix) (1 LP) *

Live Nassau Coliseum ’76 (2 LP) 

Re:Call 2 (Single versions and non-album B-sides) (remastered) (1 LP) *

 

* Exclusive to ‘Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976)’

 

CD Box Set:

128 Page hardback book

Diamond Dogs (remastered) (1 CD)

David Live (original mix) (remastered) (2 CD) *

David Live (2005 mix) (remastered) (2 CD)

The Gouster (previously unreleased as an album) (1 CD) *

Young Americans (remastered) (1 CD)

Station To Station (remastered) (1 CD)

Station To Station (Harry Maslin 2010 mix) (1 CD) *

Live Nassau Coliseum ’76 (2 CD) 

Re:Call 2 (Single versions and non album B-sides) (remastered) (1 CD) *

 

* Exclusive to ‘Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976)’

 

Digital download 192kHz/24bit box set:

Diamond Dogs  (remastered)

David Live (original mix) (remastered) *

The Gouster *

Young Americans (remastered)

Station To Station (remastered)

 

* Exclusive to ‘Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976)’

 

Digital download 96kHz/24bit box set:

Diamond Dogs  (remastered)

David Live (original mix) (remastered) *

The Gouster *

Young Americans (remastered)

Station To Station (remastered)

 

* Exclusive to ‘Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976)’

 

Digital download standard/MFiT box set:

Diamond Dogs (remastered)

David Live (original mix) (remastered) *

David Live (2005 mix) (remastered)

The Gouster (previously unreleased as an album)  *

Young Americans (remastered) (1 CD)

Station To Station (remastered) (1 CD)

Station To Station (Harry Maslin 2010 mix) *

Live Nassau Coliseum ’76   (non MFiT)

Re:Call 2 (Single versions and non album B-sides) (remastered) (non MFiT) *

 

* Exclusive to ‘Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976)

 

‘WHO CAN I BE NOW? (1974-1976)’ CD & Vinyl Tracklistings (showing Vinyl side breaks)

 

DIAMOND DOGS

Released on RCA APLI 0576 (U.K.) / CPLI 0576 (U.S.) on 31st May, 1974.

 

Side 1.

1. Future Legend

2. Diamond Dogs

3. Sweet Thing

4. Candidate

5. Sweet Thing (Reprise)

6. Rebel Rebel

 

Side 2.

1. Rock ‘n’ Roll With Me

2. We Are The Dead

3. 1984

4. Big Brother

5. Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family

 

DAVID LIVE (ORIGINAL MIX)

Released on RCA APL2 0771 (U.K.) / CPL2-0771 (U.S.) on 29th October, 1974.

 

David Live was culled from performances on the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th of July, 1974 at the Tower Theater, Philadelphia.

 

Side 1

1. 1984

2. Rebel Rebel

3. Moonage Daydream

4. Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (reprise)     

 

Side 2

1. Changes

2. Suffragette City

3. Aladdin Sane

4. All The Young Dudes

5. Cracked Actor

 

Side 3

1. Rock ‘n’ Roll With Me

2. Watch That Man

3. Knock On Wood

4. Diamond Dogs

 

Side 4

1. Big Brother

2. The Width Of A Circle

3. The Jean Genie

4. Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide

 

DAVID LIVE (2005 MIX)

 

David Live was culled from performances on the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th of July, 1974 at the Tower Theater, Philadelphia.

 

Released on EMI 874 3042 on CD and also in 5.1 on the DVD-Audio EMI 874 3049 on 14th November, 2005.

 

Side 1

1. 1984

2. Rebel Rebel

3. Moonage Daydream

4. Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (reprise)      

 

Side 2

1. Changes

2. Suffragette City

3. Aladdin Sane

4. All The Young Dudes

 

Side 3

1. Cracked Actor

2. Rock ‘n’ Roll With Me

3. Watch That Man

4. Knock On Wood

 

Side 4

1. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

2. Space Oddity

3. Diamond Dogs

 

Side 5

1. Panic In Detroit

2. Big Brother

3. Time

 

Side 6

1. The Width Of A Circle

2. The Jean Genie

3. Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide

 

THE GOUSTER

 

Previously unreleased as a complete album.

 

Side 1

1. John, I’m Only Dancing (Again) – not on ‘Young Americans’, first released as a single in 1979.

2. Somebody Up There Likes Me – alternative early previously unreleased mix

3. It’s Gonna Be Me – not on ‘Young Americans’, first released as a bonus track on the EMI/Ryko edition of ‘Young Americans’ in 1990. An alternative mix with strings was released on the 2007 EMI edition of ‘Young Americans’.

 

Side 2

1. Who Can I Be Now? – not on ‘Young Americans’, first released as a bonus track on the EMI/Ryko edition of ‘Young Americans’ in 1990.

2. Can You Hear Me – alternative early previously unreleased version.

3. Young Americans – same version that ended up on ‘Young Americans’.

4. Right – alternative early previously unreleased version.

 

 

YOUNG AMERICANS

 

Released on RCA RS 1006 (U.K.) / AQL1-0998 (U.S.) on 7th March, 1975.

 

Side 1

1. Young Americans

2. Win

3. Fascination

4. Right

 

Side 2

1. Somebody Up There Likes Me

2. Across The Universe

3. Can You Hear Me

4. Fame

 

STATION TO STATION

 

Released on RCA APL1 1327 on 23rd January, 1976.

 

STATION TO STATION (2010 HARRY MASLIN MIX)

 

First released on EMI BOWSTSD 2010 in 5.1 and in stereo at 48kHz/24bit on the DVD format within the Station To Station deluxe set on 20th September, 2010.

 

Side 1

1. Station To Station

2. Golden Years

3. Word On A Wing

 

Side 2

1. TVC 15

2. Stay

3. Wild Is The Wind

 

LIVE NASSAU COLISEUM ’76

 

Recorded live at the Nassau Coliseum Uniondale, NY, U.S.A., 23rd March, 1976. Released on EMI BOWSTSD 2010 within the Station To Station deluxe set on 20th September, 2010.

 

Side 1

1. Station To Station

2. Suffragette City

3. Fame

4. Word On A Wing

 

Side 2

1. Stay

2. Waiting For The Man

3. Queen Bitch

 

Side 3

1. Life On Mars?

2. Five Years

3. Panic In Detroit

4. Changes

5. TVC 15

 

Side 4

1. Diamond Dogs

2. Rebel Rebel

3. The Jean Genie

 

RE:CALL 2

 

Non Album Singles, Single Versions and B-Sides.

 

Side 1:

1. Rebel Rebel (original single mix)

2. Diamond Dogs (Australian single edit)

3. Rebel Rebel (U.S. single version)

4. Rock ‘n’ Roll With Me (live – promotional single edit)

5. Panic In Detroit (live)

6. Young Americans (original single edit)

 

Side 2:

1. Fame (original single edit)

2. Golden Years (original single version)

3. Station To Station (original single edit)

4. TVC 15 (original single edit)

5. Stay (original single edit)

6. Word On A Wing (original single edit)

7. John, I’m Only Dancing (Again) (1975) (single version)

 

“Can I be real?”

 

The follow up to Parlophone’s award-winning box set, David Bowie – Five Years (1969 – 1973), will be David Bowie – Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976). (More of which, later)

Exclusive to the set is The Gouster, which is previously unreleased as a complete album. Featured on the sleeve for this box set version, is a previously unpublished picture from the original photo session for the album.

Here’s how The Gouster’s tracklisting looked before it morphed into Young Americans.

 

Side 1

1. John, I’m Only Dancing (Again)

2. Somebody Up There Likes Me

3. It’s Gonna Be Me

 

Side 2

1. Who Can I Be Now?

2. Can You Hear Me

3. Young Americans

4. Right

 

As we say, watch out for full details and the release date of David Bowie – Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976) very soon.

We’ll leave you with an excerpt from Tony Visconti’s excellent notes on the album, taken from the box set book.

 

“Gouster was a word unfamiliar to me but David knew it as a type of dress code worn by African American teens in the ‘60’s, in Chicago. But in the context of the album its meaning was attitude, an attitude of pride and hipness. Of all the songs we cut we were enamored of the ones we chose for the album that portrayed this attitude.

 

David had a long infatuation with soul as did I. We were fans of the TV show Soul Train. We weren’t ‘young, gifted and black’ but we sure as hell wanted to make a killer soul album, which was quite insane, but pioneers like the Righteous Brothers were there before us.

 

So ‘The Gouster’ began with the outrageous brand new, funkafied version of David’s classic ‘John, I’m Only Dancing’, a single he wrote and recorded in 1972, only this time our version sounded like it was played live in a loft party in Harlem and he added (Again) to the title. It wasn’t the two and a half minute length of the original either.

 

We maxed out at virtually seven minutes! With the time limitations of vinyl (big volume drop with more than 18 minutes a side) we could only fit two other long songs on side one, ‘Somebody Up There Likes Me’ and ‘It’s Gonna Be Me’ both about six and a half minute songs. We had hit the twenty-minute mark. Technically that worked because ‘It’s Gonna Be Me’ had lots of quiet sections where the record groove could be safely made narrower and that would preserve the apparent loudness of side one.

 

Side two also hit the twenty-minute mark with ‘Can You Hear Me’ saving the day with its quiet passages. Forty minutes of glorious funk, that’s what it was and that’s how I thought it would be.”

 

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“Look at this, then look at us”

 

David Bowie’s Personal Art Collection to be Unveiled for the First Time

Important Paintings by 20th-Century Masters including Basquiat, Hirst and Auerbach to Lead a Major 10-Day Exhibition and Auction at Sotheby’s in London

 

Musician, actor, icon — David Bowie was for almost 50 years one of the most recognised and revered artists in the world, his influence transcending music to shape the wider culture of our time. His life as an art collector, however, was something he kept almost entirely hidden from public view. Now, for the first time, this little-known side of Bowie will be fully revealed.

 

“Eclectic, unscripted, understated: David Bowie’s collection offers a unique insight into the personal world of one of the 20th century’s greatest creative spirits.” – Oliver Barker, Chairman, Sotheby’s Europe.

 

In November this year, Sotheby’s will stage Bowie/Collector – a three-part sale that includes a selection of around 400 items from the private collection of David Bowie. At its heart will be Bowie’s collection of Modern and Contemporary British art – a richly stimulating group of over 200 works by many of the most important British artists of the 20th century, including Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, Frank Auerbach and Damien Hirst. Bowie’s famously inquisitive mind also led him to Outsider Art, Surrealism, Contemporary African art and, not least, to the work of the eccentric Italian designer Ettore Sottsass and the Memphis group. This is a collection put together with great thoughtfulness on the basis not of reputation but of Bowie’s highly personal, intellectual response to each artist’s individual vision.

 

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

 

The landmark November exhibition will be preceded by a series of previews around the world, starting with a three-week exhibition of selected works in London this summer, from 20 July until 9 August. Further exhibitions will follow in Los Angeles, New York and Hong Kong. The sale catalogue will be available in early October. Register for a copy here: sothebys.com/BowieCollector

 

A spokesperson for the Estate of David Bowie said:

“David’s art collection was fuelled by personal interest and compiled out of passion. He always sought and encouraged loans from the collection and enjoyed sharing the works in his custody. Though his family are keeping certain pieces of particular personal significance, it is now time to give others the opportunity to appreciate – and acquire – the art and objects he so admired.”

 

Swipe/scroll (or click on the little dots) for a glimpse inside the collection.

 

“Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way I feel in the mornings. The same work can change me in different ways, depending on what I’m going through.” – DAVID BOWIE quoted in The New York Times, 1998

 

Preview World Tour:

London: 20 July-9 August

Los Angeles: 20-21 September

New York: 26-29 September

Hong Kong: 12-15 October

 

The Exhibition:

Bowie/Collector: 1–10 November, Sotheby’s New Bond Street London

 

The Auctions:

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

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

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

 

For further information, please visit: sothebys.com/BowieCollector

 

 

 

Bowie & the Art World

 

The depth of Bowie’s engagement with the art world cannot be overemphasised. He was an artist, critic, patron, publisher, curator and magazine editor, with London – and Modern British art – at the heart of this passion. In 1994 – in a characteristically unorthodox move for a rock superstar – he joined an invitation only academic coterie on the editorial board of Modern Painters magazine, for which he interviewed the likes of Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin. In 1998, he launched the art-book publishing company 21 alongside Karen Wright, then editor of Modern Painters, the gallerist Bernard Jacobson and Sir Timothy Sainsbury.

 

His time at 21 is best remembered for perhaps the most infamous hoax in recent art history, when Bowie hosted an elaborate party at Jeff Koons’ Manhattan studio for the launch of a book celebrating the life and work of a mysterious artist named Nat Tate, a wholly fictional creation of his friend, the novelist William Boyd.

 

Bowie painted throughout his life and was immersed in the artistic communities not only of London, but also of New York and Berlin. He first met Andy Warhol at the legendary ‘Factory’ studio in New York in 1971; and was critically acclaimed for his portrayal of the American Pop pioneer in Julian Schnabel’s 1996 biopic, Basquiat.

 

 

The Collection in Focus

 

Simon Hucker, Senior Specialist in Modern & Post-War British Art at Sotheby’s, said: “As a collector, Bowie looked for artists with whom he felt some connection, and for works that had the power to move or inspire him. This is what led him to British art of the early and mid-20th century in particular, which, of course, also led him home.”

 

Born and raised in South London, it is perhaps no surprise that Bowie was drawn to chroniclers of the capital’s streets such as Harold Gilman, Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff, whose tutor and inspiration, David Bomberg, Bowie also collected in depth. Away from the city, the British landscape was also a constant source of fascination for Bowie, represented here by the St Ives school and later post-war and contemporary painters such as Ivon Hitchens and John Virtue.

 

Bowie’s collecting was by no means limited to British art: from early century pioneers such as Marcel Duchamp to Jean-Michel Basquiat (represented in the summer London preview by his 1984 masterpiece Air Power), to Contemporary African art and ‘Outsider’ artists from the Gugging Institute in Vienna, the collection is truly breathtaking in its scope, encompassing paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints and photographs. Set to be unveiled in its entirety in the coming weeks and months, it reveals a collector of far-reaching interests, intellectual rigour and subtle vision.

 

Bowie was also a voracious collector of the work of Ettore Sottsass and his revolutionary Memphis Design group.

 

Cécile Verdier, Co-Head of 20th Century Design at Sotheby’s, said:

 

“The works produced by the historical avant-garde design collaborative Memphis Milano, led by Ettore Sottsass, could not have found a more receptive and tuned-in audience than David Bowie. This is design with no limits and no boundaries. When you look at a piece of Memphis design, you see their unconventionality, the kaleidoscope of forms and patterns; the vibrant contrasting colours that really shouldn’t work but really do.”

 

Further information on all aspects of the collection will be made available in the coming months.

 

“I’ve always found that I collect. I’m a collector. I always just seemed to collect personalities, ideas…” – DAVID BOWIE

 

 

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“Loving The Alien”

 

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Nicolas Roeg’s iconic movie, The Man Who Fell To Earth, we’re delighted to announce that the film will return to UK cinemas in 4K this September.

STUDIOCANAL has announced that they are near to completing a new 4k restoration of the cult classic. The restoration has been in the works since late 2015 and it will be released in cinemas nationwide in the UK on 9th September by Park Circus, opening at BFI Southbank and cinemas nationwide.

The Man Who Fell To Earth will also be released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK on 10th October by STUDIOCANAL and is part of the ‘Vintage Classics collection’ – showcasing iconic British films, all fully restored and featuring brand new extra content.

Restored by Deluxe London, the restoration of The Man Who Fell To Earth is based on a 4K scan of the original camera negative, followed by a full 4K workflow, with the approval of cinematographer Anthony Richmond and with the blessing of Nic Roeg.

As well as the main poster artwork, there will be a limited edition poster to celebrate the release made available through various promotions and competitions. (See blue version in montage)

Bowie is magnificent in the film as Thomas Jerome Newton, a humanoid alien who comes to Earth from a distant planet on a mission to take water back to his home planet, which is in the midst of a catastrophic drought. Bowie’s performance is timeless and that’s not to mention him looking absolutely incredible throughout…with and without human disguise.

Full details of the DVD/BD release, including a special Collector’s Edition, will follow shortly.

The film will also be released in the US and Germany, stay tuned for more information.

 

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