“Here I am/ Not quite dying.” So sang David Bowie on “The Next Day,” the opener and title track for an album nobody thought would exist. The song was actually inspired by medieval history, and it set up a collection of music that some critics characterized as more consistently bleak than any other Bowie album — all death and violence and tyranny and apocalypse. But this is David Bowie we’re talking […]
There’s been no shortage of David Bowie content since the music legend’s 2016 death, including a 2020 biopic that earned the chagrin of his son Duncan Jones and didn’t have the rights to his music. Now a second posthumous Bowie film is on its way, boasting those shimmering buzz-phrases “estate approval,” “never-before-seen footage,” and “exclusively remastered music” (40 songs, to rub salt in Stardust’s wound). Moonage Daydream comes from Brett Morgen, the director of the Emmy–nominated Kurt Cobain doc Montage of Heck and […]
Photo: David Bowie performs live in 2002. CREDIT: Frank Micelotta/ImageDirect David Bowie has been revealed as the 21st Century’s best-selling vinyl artist. The late musician’s vinyl sales for the 2000s of 582,704 (calculated up until January 6) place him ahead of the only other act to top half a million units on the format – The Beatles (535,596 sales). As revealed by Music Week’s chart analyst Alan Jones, in the […]
