You’ve read it in the papers, and the tracks are online too…
The press in the UK are picking up on the fact that Nokia has enlisted the services of David Bowie for their
You can read most of what the Evening Standard had to say about the campaign (and The Mail On Sunday who published the same feature) by clicking on the article on the right above. The item above left was a front-page teaser for a piece inside the Guardian’s Money section on Saturday, that went a little something like this…
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Ringing the changes: Now for the rock?n?roll. Mobile phone giant Nokia has recruited David Bowie to promote its new online music download service called Music Recommenders. The Thin White Duke will be acting as the service?s musical ?godfather? and will be recommending tracks and acts via regular features and podcasts. The service is aimed at the music connoisseur rather than the casual listener.
Bowie has a pretty good track record when it comes to spotting the rock stars of tomorrow. Back in 1973, he was raving about a relatively unknown New Jersey rocker by the name of Bruce Springsteen, and more recently he was championing the band Arcade Fire before they became critics? darlings.
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A pretty good track record, indeed! And don’t forget you can read further evidence of that immaculate taste on the