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  • David Bowie Seen at Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark

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    I don’t know why I’m even blogging about this since it hardly qualifies as news, but apparently I am.  BuzzFoto spotted David Bowie in attendance at the new musical Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark.  Unsurprisingly, the show suffered a 20-minute delay due to difficulties.  Follow the link to view the photo, unless you wish…

  • Nile Rodgers Announces Cancer Diagnosis

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    Friend, former band member and producer for David Bowie, and co-founder of Chic Nile Rodgers announced last week that he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.  Like so many people who live through cancer, Rodgers started a new blog, Walking on Planet C, to share his experiences and thoughts on his treatment…

  • David Bowie’s First Fan Letter from America

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    This is too cute. The blog Letters of Note came across a treasure from 42 years ago – the response to the first fan letter that David Bowie received from an American fan.

  • David Bowie Makes the New Cinematical Seven List

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    Usually I don’t agree with all of the choices for these types of opinion based lists (not even the Seriously Random Lists on my favorite Pajiba), but this time I totally do.  Check it out – David Bowie made the number 2 slot for the Cinematical Seven: Most Fashionable Men on Film.  Of course I…

  • New David Bowie Biography on the Block

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    Magazine and newspaper writer Marc Spitz published a new biography of David Bowie entitled, very simply, Bowie: A Biography.  Bowie’s life has been the subject of many a biography and music magazine column, but Spitz wanted to take a different approach with his own work.  In an interview with Mr. Media Radio, Spitz said that…

  • David Bowie and Iggy Pop Turn Blocky and Yellow for Lego Rock Band

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    Anyone that has played any of the Lego video games knows that they are awesome.  Lego Star Wars – awesome.  Lego Indiana Jones – also awesome.  Lego Batman – until now, the most awesome of all.  In fact, that one is so great that the Webmaster and I accidentally spent an entire Saturday playing it…

  • Beatles to Bowie: the 60s Exposed Exhibit Now Open in London

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    The National Portrait Gallery in London will be displaying the exhibit Beatles to Bowie: the 60s Exposed until January 24 2010.  Over 100 photographs of icons from the 60s in London are used to explore how music and performance created the famous “swinging 60s”.  Musicians and performers shown include The Beatles (of course), David Bowie…

  • A Spider Named David Bowie

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    Way back in 1972 when David Bowie developed the character of Ziggy Stardust and his band the Spiders From Mars, never in his most coked-out dreams did he think he would ever have an actual arachnid named after that endeavor. German scientist and spider expert Peter Jäger discovered the spider Heteropoda davidbowie on Mars in…

  • The Ideal David Bowie Song?

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    Okay, get this.  Nick Troop, the Principal Lecturer in Health Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, wrote what he considers to be the ideal David Bowie song.  He used an program called Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count to analyze the words and emotional processes in the lyrics of the songs on Bowie’s most commercially successful…

  • Station to Station to be Re-Released Next year

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    As is the case with David Bowie’s back catalog up to this point, Station to Station will get the make-over treatment sometime early in 2010.  Completists like us will own the following set: Disc 1 – original album, Disc 2 – 5.1 surround sound and original stereo DVD of original album, Discs 3 and 4…