Month: March 2013

“Who will win Aladdin Sane”

“Pre-order the forthcoming 40th Anniversary Edition of Aladdin Sane with Recordstore.uk and you could win a personalised and framed print.“

That‘s what it says on the site. In other words, the print will have your name on it somewhere and we‘re guessing the it‘s actually of the sleeve. We‘ll update this news item when we know for sure.

“Changes are taking the pace I’m going through”

Tomorrow (Wednesday March 6) will apparently be the first time that the major French weekly magazine, Télérama, will have published an edition with three separate covers dedicated to one person.

And who could warrant such generous treatment and sustain enough visual excitement to make such a thing work? You guessed it. (Well, it‘s not rocket science.)

Inside the magazine, Hugo Cassavetti, Laurent Rigoulet and François Gorin take a look at three separate moments in Bowie‘s shapeshifting career over a five-page feature

Elsewhere in the magazine there’s a very favourable review of The Next Day, which you can read online here.  

Go here for moe details..

“The stars must stick together”

It seems a few people are wondering about the beautifully Bowie-esque girl in the video for The Stars (Are Out Tonight).  

Well, it‘s 27-year-old Norwegian model, Iselin Vollen Steiro, and she plays the younger David Bowie in the band next door in the brilliant Floria Sigismondi-directed film.

She makes a pretty convincing job of it and has a few of the mannerisms down pat. And that shot by the window of the eyes? Great attention to detail.

We‘re not sure how Iselin applied for the part, but shoots like this make for a pretty good CV.

People have also been asking about the wonderfully atmospheric instrumental introduction to The Stars (Are Out Tonight) video.

Well, you may be pleased to learn that it’s available as a longer version in the shape of The Next Day bonus instrumental track, Plan. 

“They can’t get enough of that doomsday song”

Continuing our posting of the lyrics for The Next Day, here are the words for the brilliant opening title track.

We’ll be posting more over the next few days along with more teases of Jonathan Barnbrook‘s album artwork, both here on DavidBowie.com and on the David Bowie (Official) Facebook page. 

 

The Next Day (David Bowie)

Look into my eyes he tells her
I’m gonna say goodbye he says yea
Do not cry she begs of him goodbye yea
All that day she thinks of his love yea

They whip him through the streets and alleys there
The gormless and the baying crowd right there
They can’t get enough of that doomsday song
They can’t get enough of it all

Listen

Listen to the whores he tells her
He fashions paper sculptures of them
Then drags them to the river‘s bank in the cart
Their soggy paper bodies wash ashore in the dark
And the priest stiff in hate now demanding fun begin
Of his women dressed as men for the pleasure of that priest

Here I am
Not quite dying
My body left to rot in a hollow tree
Its branches throwing shadows
On the gallows for me
And the next day
And the next
And another day

Ignoring the pain of their particular diseases
They chase him through the alleys chase him down the steps
They haul him through the mud and they chant for his death
And drag him to the feet of the purple headed priest

First they give you everything that you want
Then they take back everything that you have
They live upon their feet and they die upon their knees
They can work with satan while they dress like the saints
They know god exists for the devil told them so
They scream my name aloud down into the well below

Here I am
Not quite dying
My body left to rot in a hollow tree
Its branches throwing shadows
On the gallows for me
And the next day
And the next
And another day

“We had a friend, a talking man”

Paul Morley has written a fine piece in the Review section of today’s Daily Telegraph.

Here‘s an excerpt from it.

“WHEN I was a 15-year-old David Bowie fan in 1972, Bowie was for me a kind of teacher, so much more inspiring and motivating than my real teachers. In the middle of a mundane, mainstream world that limited possibility, his explosive mind and the way he represented it through sheer otherness suggested everything was possible. He was the human equivalent of a Google search, a portal through which you could step into an amazing, very different wider world – if he mentioned in an interview, or referenced in his work, someone like Andy Warhol, Jean Cocteau, Antonin Artaud or Marcel Duchamp, I would immediately want to find out what he was talking about.

He flooded plain everyday reality with extraordinary, unexpected information, processing the details through a buoyant, mobile mind, and made intellectual discovery seem incredibly glamorous. He helped create in my own mind a need to discover ways of making sense of both the universe and the self by seeking out the different, the difficult and the daring.

David Bowie is about to be as much at the centre of attention as he was in his Seventies prime, still taking people to new places, still using entertainment as an unlikely form of education. There will not be much sight of the actual, living David Bowie. But everyone who has an opinion – which these days is close to everyone – will be telling us about their version of David Bowie, their love, hate or indifference, while the real Bowie observes with some amusement from somewhere else, conceptually choreographing glorious, subversive show-business heat with Zen-master grace.

He will keep his distance, refusing to be interviewed, refusing to engage in sales talk and idle gossip, easily avoiding the sharing, multitasking, desperate need to stay visible of the modern celebrity, inspired by stars like him, but lacking the troubling and truly mysterious artistic dimension. He will be invisible, in current orthodox terms, but he will be everywhere. ”

Check out the full article if you get a chance, it‘s well worth a read.

“Just in case”

We’re pretty sure you will have already worked them out and we did post them last month, but here are the Where Are We Now? lyrics just in case.

We’ll be posting more over the next few days along with more teases of Jonathan Barnbrook‘s album artwork.

Check out the David Bowie (Official) FB page for more. 

 

Where Are We Now? (David Bowie)

Had to get the train
From Potsdamer Platz
You never knew that
That I could do that
Just walking the dead

Sitting in the Dschungel
On Nürnberger Strasse
A man lost in time
Near KaDeWe
Just walking the dead

Where are we now, where are we now?
The moment you know, you know, you know

Twenty thousand people
Cross Bösebrücke
Fingers are crossed
Just in case
Walking the dead

Where are we now, where are we now?
The moment you know, you know, you know

As long as there’s sun
As long as there’s sun
As long as there’s rain
As long as there’s rain
As long as there’s fire
As long as there’s fire
As long as there’s me
As long as there’s you

“The stars are out tonight”

Well here’s the surprise we hinted at earlier this evening, if you want to hear David Bowie‘s new album, The Next Day, it‘s available to stream as a worldwide exclusive on the iTunes Store here now.

Tune in to David Bowie (Official) on FB over the next couple of days for your chance to win signed-by David Bowie deluxe copies of The Next Day just for telling us your favourite tracks!

The stream is available until the album is released in your country.

Spread the word children. #thenextday #davidbowie @iTunes http://www.facebook.com/iTunes