Month: January 2016

 

“Staying back in your memory”

 

The March 2016 issue of UNCUT pays tribute to David Bowie with 19 pages of content, wherein many of his collaborators, including Carlos Alomar, Reeves Gabrels, Nile Rodgers, Mike Garson, Ken Scott and Herbie Flowers, remember Bowie, while UNCUT’s David Cavanagh has filed an essay on Bowie’s life and legacy.

Go here for more.

 

#DavidBowie  #BowiePress  #BowieUNCUT

 

“Now ain’t that just like me”

 

David Bowie’s Lazarus single has entered the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 Single chart in the US, giving him his first top 40 hit on the chart in more than 28 years.

He also re-enters with two other titles while taking over a record 21 of the 50 positions on the Hot Rock Songs chart.

Check out this Billboard piece for more facts and figures.

Thanks once more to everybody who has helped Bowie achieve this chart success.

 

#DavidBowie  #Blackstar  #imablackstar  #BlackstarAlbum  #LazarusSingle

 

“Well, ain’t that poster love?”

 

For those of you not already familiar with it, BEAT is an independently published quarterly music magazine and they have just published their 5th Anniversary Issue, Special Poster Edition featuring David Bowie.

Those of you of a certain age will remember Bowie’s ISOLAR tour programmes of 1976 and 1978, printed on newspaper stock. This double-size edition is akin to those in terms of size and paper stock.

The 40-page, colour and black and white, A2 publication (huge) folds out into an impressive A1 (massive) and the bowie content amounts to 9 x A2 portraits, 9 x A2 artwork pages and 2 delicious A1 posters.

Our montage really doesn’t do the mag justice in terms of understanding the scale of this issue of BEAT.

As explained by Editor-in-Chief, Hanna Hanra, the magazine was ready to roll on the day DB passed. Some last minute text changes were quickly made before BEAT was rushed off to the printers once more.

Here’s an excerpt from Hanna’s editorial…

 

When I sat down to write this, his 25th album, (25th!) had just been released. Life was good. David Bowie was 69. I didn’t get very

far with writing anything because we were on deadline with the issue, this special issue celebrating both our fifth anniversary and

the release of David Bowie’s new album. DB had seen a copy of BEAT, he liked it, and had wanted to let us run some pictures.

 

All the yesses in the world sparked through my blood when his publicist rang me, tears streamed down my cheeks. We’ll make it really

special! We’ll run some new pictures and some archive ones! We’ll make it twice the size!

 

His death feels like the earth has stopped mid spin, an enormous shuddering surprise, my feet tripping over themselves below me.

But of course, that’s just like him – full of surprises.

 

Helping BEAT celebrate for this issue, is a David Bowie gallery curated by artist Sue Webster, featuring:

 

Tracey Emin

Tim Noble

Scott King

Kingsley Ifill

Toby Mott

Jeremy Deller

 

There’s also a 10 favourite things about David Bowie list by Kate Moss, not to mention two different covers for this edition of BEAT, by Sue Webster (see the two different covers bottom right in our montage).

BEAT is free at your local vintage/record/magazine store, but for obvious reasons it will be snapped up quickly and both versions can be purchased here online.

 

#DavidBowie  #BowieBEAT  #BowiePress

“New York’s in love…”

 

DAVID BOWIE ★ FIRST #1 U.S. ALBUM TOPS CHARTS WORLDWIDE INCLUDING THE UK, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, FRANCE, GERMANY, JAPAN & MORE
 
January 20, 2016 Proclaimed DAVID BOWIE DAY in New York City
 
David Bowie’s 28th album ★ has entered at #1 in more than 20 territories including the US, UK, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland since its January 8, 2016 release on ISO/Columbia/RCA Records.
 
Coincidentally, ★, released on Bowie’s 69th birthday, has hit #1 on iTunes in 69 countries.
 
Also, it was announced today that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has proclaimed today, January 20, 2016 in the City of New York as David Bowie Day. The proclamation will be read tonight 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.

#DavidBowie  #Blackstar  #imablackstar  #BlackstarAlbum  #DavidBowieDay

 

“There’s been many others, so many times”

 

Our good friend Jérôme Soligny has been in touch with details of a Rock&Folk Bowie special (exclusive peek at the cover in our montage), and the current February issue of the regular Rock&Folk magazine.

Over to Jérôme…

 

+ – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – +

 

When we heard the news on the saddest Monday morning of all, Rock&Folk decided to keep busy and work hard on the special issue we had in mind for years. We never thought it would be an ‘in memoriam’ issue.

 

Basically, the special is a compilation of some of the best interviews David gave us over the past 4 decades, some go back to when I was a teenager and when I was actually stealing the mag!

 

But, of course, we also wrote some new articles, starting with a great piece by Eric Dahan, my Bowie compere for years. We had the feeling we had to give our readers (among them our fellow French Bowie fans), the special issue they deserve…and that David deserves too.

 

Our tribute to such an incomparable artist needed to be massive: 100 pages, and, of course, Mick Rock (who else?) provided an exclusive shot from the Pin Ups photo shoot for the special issue. 

 

Now that it’s done, we may cry, or maybe put some David Bowie record on and dance the f…. night away.

 

Also, the issue 582 of the mag (with Motörhead on the cover – what an awful year it’s been so far), is just out.

 

Inside, R&F’s editor Philippe Manœuvre wrote a one page tribute to our Main Man and there’s a page featuring all the mag’s covers he’s been on. Also in this 582 issue, there’s a 6-page article written after I went to New York to see Lazarus. David was still alive.

 

So David, us common mortals salute you wherever you are and as I say in the last words of the last phrase of the last article I wrote for this issue: Have a fantastic voyage!

 

+ – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – +

 

Thanks to you Jérôme and all at Rock&Folk for your unstinting support of David Bowie over the last forty plus years, it’s very much appreciated.

Meanwhile, check out this animation of the Rock&Folk Bowie covers.

 

#RocknFolkBowie

 

“Every magazine on every shelf”

 

A few more recent magazine covers for those of you that like to keep up with these things.

 

#DavidBowie  #BowiePress

 

“The toppest top of all the tops”

 

David Bowie’s ★ has gone straight in at the top of the Billboard 200 chart, giving him his first #1 album in the US.

His previous studio album, The Next Day, had been his highest placing on the chart until now, when it reached #2 in 2013.

Check out this Billboard piece regarding this success.

Thanks again to everybody who helped make this happen, particularly those of you that bought the release.

 

#DavidBowie  #Blackstar  #imablackstar  #BlackstarAlbum  #BlackstarNumberOne

 

“Look out your window I can see his light”

 

Billboard (Jan 23) in the US and Music Week (Jan 18) in the UK both have specials celebrating the life and career of David Bowie in their latest issues.

Aside from the pages of tributes in both magazines, Billboard has a beautiful, full page Sukita portrait placed by Warner Music Group/Parlophone with the headline “YOU BLEW OUR MINDS”.

Music Week has a special wraparound cover placed by Columbia with a Bowie front cover underneath that.

There’s also a full-page placed by the Official Charts Company with the legend: “Farewell to the ultimate Starman – Still the nation’s hero”. 

Swipe/scroll (or click on little dots) to view more.

Both magazines are available now.

 

#DavidBowie  #BowiePress    #BowieBillboard    #BowieMusicWeek

 

“Planet Earth is blue, And there’s so much you can do”

 

An incredible amount of tributes to David Bowie are taking place around the globe this weekend, through every form of the media and using just about every imaginable medium there is.

Sadly there are way too many to list here, a Google search of ‘David Bowie tribute’ returned around 86 million results.

So even though it might seem unfair to single out any one event, there is a band that David Bowie himself did single out: Arcade Fire.

Reflektor was the last contribution Bowie made to another artist’s record and his love of the band generally, is well documented.

That appreciation was a two-way thing with Win Butler and the band being quoted many times on the subject of their love for all things Bowie.

Here’s an entry from January 12th on the Arcade Fire FB page:

 

David Bowie was one of the band’s earliest supporters and champions. He not only created the world that made it possible for our band to exist, he welcomed us into it with grace and warmth. We will take to the grave the moments we shared; talking, playing music and collaborating as some of the most profound and memorable moments of our lives. A true artist even in his passing, the world is more bright and mysterious because of him, and we will continue to shout prayers into the atmosphere he created.

 

That love is illustrated again perfectly today in New Orleans at 16:00 local time with: Arcade Fire and Preservation Hall Jazz Band Present “Pretty Things” A Memorial Parade for Bowie. Check out the FB event page here.

If you are able to attend please go and show your love for David Bowie and your appreciation for Arcade Fire and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.

Our inset picture shows Win Butler and Régine Chassagne of the band with David and Iman, backstage at the Highline Festival in 2007. (© Gary Gershoff/WireImage.com 2007)

 

#DavidBowie  #BowieTribute  #BowieArcadeFire

 

 

+ – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – +

 

 

Preservation Hall, 726 St Peter St, New Orleans, Louisiana 70116

 

Dress in your best Bowie outfit or something more strange and meet us at 4pm on Saturday, January 16th at Preservation Hall.

 

“The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time” – David Bowie

 

The Route:

Departing from Preservation Hall on St. Peter to Royal

RIGHT on Royal to Toulouse

LEFT on Toulouse to the river

STOP for (10) ten minutes

continue along the river to St. Louis

RIGHT on to St. Louis

RIGHT on Chartres

LEFT on Toulouse to One Eyed Jacks

 

 

+ – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – + – +

 

“I can see the magazines”

 

Just a small sample of some of the Bowie related press out there at the moment.

 

Swipe/scroll (or click on little dots) for more images

 

 

#DavidBowie  #BowiePress