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  • David Bowie Items Up For Auction At Christie’s

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    Christie’s auction house in New York City will be holding it’s first auction of punk rock memorabilia this year.  Memorabilia of David Bowie, the Sex Pistols, and the Clash will be among the items that are up for auction on November 24, 2008.  Simon Lipman of Christie’s commented in an Associated Press interview that, “Ten…

  • More War Child Album Updates

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    Update #3:  It is official.  The War Child album to which David Bowie is contributing his song “Heroes” to be covered by TV On The Radio will be postponed until 2009 due to more artists showing interest.  Maybe we’ll get a double disc?  *hopes*

  • David Bowie Takes Song of the Year Title….For 1969

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    As Rorschach would say, hurm. I’m not exactly sure of the purpose of the article written by Dan Cairn for the Times-Online, but nevertheless he has chosen David Bowie’s Space Oddity as the Song of the Year for 1969. Despite the fact that Cairn briefly gives play to the mistaken interpretation that Space Oddity is…

  • War Child Album Updates

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    Update #1: In my previous post about the upcoming War Child album “Heroes”, I reported that the song David Bowie was contributing had not been released yet.   The official word from BowieNet is that the song will be….wait for it….don’t want to ruin the surprise….”Heroes“!  I know, right? Knock me over with a feather. …

  • Ziggy Stardust Costume Will Be Displayed by The British Music Experience

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    The David Bowie Archive recently loaned one of the early Ziggy Stardust costumes made by Freddie Burretti to The British Music Experience. The permanent exhibit will be using their displays to demonstrate how British music has shaped the past six decades of British popular culture. It will open in 2009 in the O2 Arena in…

  • Another David Bowie Cover, But This Time For A Good Cause

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    I know we bitch a lot on this site about the seemingly never-ending stream of David Bowie covers…either that or we ignore them like the latest Cat Power cover. However, the newest cover will be featured on the album Heroes being released on November 24 by the charity War Child. So I don’t even have…

  • “Reality” Anniversary

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    A wistful David Bowie anniversary has come and gone – Reality was released five years ago on September 15, 2003.  I can hardly believe that five years has come and gone with not a peep about a new album.  *sigh*  A lot has happened in those five years, but one of those things was not…

  • Commercial Round-up: Found David Bowie

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    It’s always a pleasant surprise when a commercial I expect to be grating and annoying turns to sweetness with a few notes from a David Bowie song.  The latest commercials to use Bowie’s music are the new bubble one from Rhapsody, the new one from Royal Caribbean, and one from Marks and Spencer.  The Rhapsody…

  • David Bowie’s “Ziggy Stardust” Voted Gayest Album

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    Out Magazine recently took a poll of 100 gay musicians, performance artists, actors, comedians, writers, critics, label reps, and DJs and asked them what albums had the biggest impact on their lives. The number one album on the list is, of course, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. The…

  • Rare Early David Bowie Song Discovered

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    A rare early recording of David Bowie singing and playing saxophone with his first band, the Konrads, has surfaced. The track called “Mockingbird” is one of 5,000 recordings made by British music producer Joe Meek. All 1,850 master tapes from Meek’s personal collection are on sale as part of the Fame Bureau’s “It’s More Than…