Month: January 2016

 

“Elvis is English”

 

David Bowie continues to impact the UK album chart, with ★ holding at Number 1 for a third week.

He also dominates the Top 10 with the five albums pictured here, not to mention 12 spots on this week’s Official Albums Chart Top 40 and a total of 18 albums in the Top 80.

This feat means Bowie is the first act to score five albums in the Top 10 since Michael Jackson managed six in 2009 after his passing.

The 12 Top 40 places brings Bowie level with Elvis Presley’s chart record for simultaneous Top 40 entries, which the King achieved following his death in 1977.

 

The full list of the 18 Bowie albums in this week’s Official Albums Chart appears below:

 

01 – BLACKSTAR – RCA

03 – BEST OF BOWIE – PARLOPHONE

05 – NOTHING HAS CHANGED – THE VERY BEST OF DAVID BOWIE – PARLOPHONE

09 – HUNKY DORY – PARLOPHONE

10 – THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST – PARLOPHONE

20 – ALADDIN SANE – PARLOPHONE

27 – LOW – PARLOPHONE

28 – “HEROES” – PARLOPHONE

30 – DIAMOND DOGS – PARLOPHONE

31 – THE NEXT DAY – RCA

32 – STATION TO STATION – PARLOPHONE

36 – SCARY MONSTERS – PARLOPHONE

42 – LET’S DANCE – PARLOPHONE

43 – YOUNG AMERICANS – PARLOPHONE

52 – THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD – PARLOPHONE

63 – PIN UPS – PARLOPHONE

66 – LODGER – PARLOPHONE

79 – SPACE ODDITY – PARLOPHONE

 

View the full Albums Top 100 here.

Our montage shows the five Bowie albums which make up 50% of this week’s Official Albums Chart Top 10

 

#Blackstar  #imablackstar  #BlackstarAlbum  #BowieOCC

 

 

 

“My friends talk”

 

Issue 1254 (February 11, 2016) of Rolling Stone magazine in the US is a Bowie tribute edition, wherein, among other things, some of David’s friends and colleagues remember the man they knew.

There are some moving moments among the interviews. Read the online versions via the links below.

 

Iggy Pop Remembers David Bowie: ‘He Appreciated Oddballs’ – As told to David Fricke.

 

Bono Remembers David Bowie: ‘He Is My Idea of a Rock Star’ – As told to Brian Hiatt.

 

Trent Reznor Recalls How David Bowie Helped Him Get Sober – As told to Patrick Doyle.

 

Mick Jagger Remembers David Bowie: ‘He Would Share So Much With Me’ – As told to Patrick Doyle.

 

 

And while you’re there, as an added bonus, here’s a link to the Gail Ann Dorsey interview also published online this week. Gail is pictured here with David in Paris, September 2003.

David Bowie Bassist Gail Ann Dorsey: ‘He Altered the Course of My Life’ – By Andy Greene.

 

Rolling Stone magazine is available from January 29th.

 

#BowieRollingStone

 

“Love cleans the mind and makes it free”

 

Barnbrook say this best themselves…

 

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Barnbrook loved working with David Bowie, he was simply one of the most inspirational, kind people we have met. So in the spirit of openness and in remembrance of David we are releasing the artwork elements of his last album ★ (Blackstar) to download here free under a Creative Commons NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence. That means you can make t-shirts for yourself, use them for tattoos, put them up in your house to remember David by and adapt them too, but we would ask that you do not in any way create or sell commercial products with them or based on them. Any questions or commercial licence usage please contact us.

 

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Go here to get started.

 

#Blackstar  #imablackstar  #BlackstarAlbum  #BowieBarnbrook  #BarnbrookBowie

 

“…stiffly waxed and one foot wide”

 

Last month we told you about the Bowie At The Beeb vinyl box set due via Parlophone on February 26th.

Those of you signed up to the David Bowie Newsletter service will also be aware that the first six Bowie studio albums (excluding the Deram album), will also be released on the same day.

Both the Beeb box set and the studio albums are issued as remastered, heavyweight 180g vinyl editions.

Go here to pre-order now.

 

#BowieAtTheBeeb  #BowieVinyl

 

“I got a MOJO, don’t you know” *

 

The March issue of MOJO magazine is celebrating David Bowie with over 20 pages, thus…

 

The latest MOJO magazine is a celebration of the life and work of DAVID BOWIE and includes TWO FREE DELUXE BOWIE POSTERS. 20-plus pages of coverage includes Bowie himself writing for MOJO about the music that changed him, an extraordinary tribute by Siouxsie Sioux and Tony Visconti with the truth about Bowie’s final album, Blackstar.

 

* OK, today’s lyric quotation is possibly a bit obscure. It’s a line from the Calvin Carter song, I Ain’t Got You, originally recorded by Billy Boy Arnold.

Bowie covered the song live during his stint with The Manish Boys eventually recording a cover of I Wish You Would for Pin Ups, another Billy Boy Arnold release.

The Yardbirds also covered both songs.

 

#DavidBowie  #BowiePress  #BowieMOJO

 

“Such is the stuff from where dreams are woven”

 

As the headline suggests, Station To Station (the album that introduced the world to The Thin White Duke), is forty-years-old today.

Considered a classic among fans and critics alike, the record was unusual for a Bowie album in that it contained just six tracks, even though it still clocked in at a little over thirty eight minutes.

For the first time ever, a David Bowie album was a bigger commercial success Stateside than in the UK. It reached #3 on the Billboard 200 and #5 on the official UK album chart.

Four of Station To Station’s six songs were released as commercial A-sides by RCA, with Golden Years being the pre-album hit.

The song scored Bowie yet another top ten just in time for the Christmas UK chart in 1975, where it remained right up to the release of the album in January 1976.

 

Here’s the tracklisting:

 

1. Station To Station (10:08)

2. Golden Years (4:03)

3. Word On A Wing (6:00)

4. TVC15 (5:29)

5. Stay (6:08)

6. Wild Is The Wind (5:58)

 

Top right in our montage is how the withdrawn colour version of the sleeve would have looked had it hit the racks. Top left is the two-colour version (red and black ink on a white sleeve) which is the version actually released.

The stark appearance of the final sleeve was more in keeping with the monochromatic look of the 1976 Station To Station tour, or the Isolar tour as it’s since become known.

If you’ve not listened to the album in a while, remind yourself of its majesty here.

 

#DavidBowie #BowieS2S40  #ThinWhiteDuke

 

“Just like that bluebird, Now ain’t that just like me”

 

Our Man Made Movies friend and source of Duncan Jones news, @Unklerupert, has been in touch with details regarding some recent activity from David Bowie’s son.

Happy to report that Duncan is tweeting again, over to you Rupe…

 

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MOVIE, NEWS, WARCRAFT

 

DUNCAN JONES RETURNS TO TWITTER SHARING NEW WARCRAFT PHOTOS

JANUARY 23, 2016 UNKLERUPERT

 

Duncan Jones returned to Twitter earlier today and thanked everyone for the many messages he has received over the last 13 days since the passing of his father. Duncan chose an image by one his favourite British artists David Shrigley to say “Everything is good”.

 

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Keep an eye on the Man Made Movies page for all your Duncan Jones malarkey.

 

#DirectorDuncanJones  #EverythingIsGood  #DavidShrigley

 

“I’m not a popstar”

 

David Bowie is still having a massive impact on the UK album chart, holding twelve spots on this week’s Official Albums Chart Top 50 and a total of 19 albums in the Top 100.

★ holds for a second week at Number 1, logging just over 80,000 combined sales, while the 2002 retrospective Best Of Bowie leaps from 18 to Number 3. 2014’s Nothing Has Changed, gives Bowie his third Top 10 entry this week at Number 6.

Bowie’s other entries in the Top 40 are: Hunky Dory (up 2 places to 12), The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust (down 2 to 19), Aladdin Sane (down 1 to 22), The Next Day (up 1 to 24), Low (unmoved at 31), and Let’s Dance (up 7 to 35).

The full list of his 19 albums in this week’s Official Albums Chart appears below:

 

01 – BLACKSTAR – RCA

03 – BEST OF BOWIE – PARLOPHONE

06 – NOTHING HAS CHANGED – THE VERY BEST OF DAVID BOWIE – PARLOPHONE

12 – HUNKY DORY – PARLOPHONE

19 – THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST – PARLOPHONE

22 – ALADDIN SANE – PARLOPHONE

24 – THE NEXT DAY – RCA

31 – LOW – PARLOPHONE

35 – LET’S DANCE – PARLOPHONE

41 – THE BEST OF 1969/1974 – PARLOPHONE

45 – “HEROES” – PARLOPHONE

46 – SCARY MONSTERS – PARLOPHONE

54 – THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD – PARLOPHONE

55 – DIAMOND DOGS – PARLOPHONE

62 – SPACE ODDITY – PARLOPHONE

64 – LODGER – PARLOPHONE

83 – PIN UPS – PARLOPHONE

89 – STATION TO STATION – PARLOPHONE

99 – YOUNG AMERICANS – PARLOPHONE

 

View the full Albums Top 100 here.

Our montage shows the dozen albums on this week’s Official Albums Chart Top 50

 

#Blackstar  #imablackstar  #BlackstarAlbum  #BowieOCC

 

 

“Far out from the sad eyes, Strange, mad celebration”

 

The March issue of Q magazine (Q356) is celebrating David Bowie with a 35-page study of his recorded music. Here’s a bit from the site.

 

“We had almost completed work on our David Bowie retrospective when the shocking news of his death from cancer grimly greeted the dawn of 11 January,” writes Q’s Features Editor Ted Kessler, introducing the 35-page celebration of David Bowie in our new issue, on sale from Friday (22 January).

“Our original mission was to tell the story behind each of his albums, designed to lend context and perspective to his latest – and last – recording, the magnificent ★ (Blackstar). While we proceeded to add and adjust some pieces accordingly, a detailed map of all his recorded output seemed a fitting epitaph. Because that’s what will remain after we are all dust: Bowie’s era-defining, genre-straddling, imitation-defying back catalogue. While the world mourns one of its brightest lights going out, David Bowie’s immortality is assured by the music he left behind for us all. Not only did he design our lives. He offered something for future generations to aim for as well.”

Get Q for the inside story of each of Bowie’s albums – plus print editions of the magazine come with posters featuring Bowie and Motörhead’s Lemmy, the other passing musical giant we salute this month.

 

#DavidBowie  #BowiePress  #BowieQ

 

“I’ll take you to New York, It’s the place that I know well…”

 

Yesterday we told you about January 20, 2016 being proclaimed DAVID BOWIE DAY in New York City by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

The proclamation was read last night at the curtain call of the final performance of the sold-out run of Lazarus, the New York Theater Workshop production conceived and co-created by Bowie.

Here’s a bigger version of the proclamation itself, if you can’t read the one on this page.

 

#DavidBowie  #Blackstar  #imablackstar  #BlackstarAlbum  #DavidBowieDay