“Look at him climb“
The Official Charts Company in the UK has announced that Nothing Has Changed – The Very Best of David Bowie has gone back up the album chart seven places to #32.
No doubt people are realising the album is a hard-to-beat, quality Christmas gift.
Meanwhile, if you missed the inaugural BBC Music Awards on Thursday, you can watch the whole thing on the BBC iPlayer.
Though our man didn’t pick up the gong for British Artist of the Year (cynical cries of “Don’t attend, don’t win!“), there was a lovely collection of tributes for him from the likes of Gary Barlow, Sarah-Jane Crawford, MistaJam, Chris Martin, George Ezra and Olly Murs.
Here’s a bit of what Chris Martin had to say:
“When Where Are We Now? came out, I was staggered, and also annoyed. You know, come on, it’s not fair he’s already got tons of really good songs and then there’s this instant classic.“
Chris also made the news with this admission regarding his attempts to collaborate with Bowie:
“One time I sent him a song to ask him to sing on it and he called me and said: “It’s not one of your best”. (Laughs) He’s got very high standards and I appreciate that…it inspires the rest of us to keep our standards high.“
If you didn’t catch the show, the Bowie bit is 1 hour and 25 minutes in.