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What David Bowie’s music can teach us about the beauty of isolation

by Emily Elvish

David Bowie was always considered ahead of his time. Rising amongst cultural movements which worshipped life’s most co-dependent charms – sex, drugs and rock and…

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You’ll soon be able to enjoy David Bowie’s music in an immersive live space show

by Luke Haggart

What better way to celebrate the dawn of a new decade than pairing up David Bowie’s spacey sounds with live and immersive visuals of the…

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Sounds of the psychedelic: the tale of the Mellotron

by Claudia Schmidt

The Mellotron is an instrument unlike any other. An early kind of analog sampler, its use of tape ensures that no single note is ever…

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Why It Mattered: David Bowie – ‘David Bowie’

by Luke Saunders

After a few albums that were more of less flops, a 21-year-old David Bowie was yearning his big breakthrough. The star that fell to earth…

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Bowie’s legacy lives on with a brand new 50th anniversary Space Oddity video

by GK Singh

The 50th anniversary of David Bowie’s smash hit Space Oddity has amounted into some bold celebratory moves. Even Mattel announced the release of a ‘Bowie…

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In honour of Space Oddity’s 50th anniversary, Mattel unveil a Bowie Barbie

by GK Singh

It has been 50 years to the day since David Bowie’s iconic hit, Space Oddity was released. Being his first single to chart in the UK, Space Oddity…

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LISTEN: David Bowie – The Mercury Demos

by Happy

In 1969, David Bowie and his friend John Hutchinson made a series of one-take demos in an effort to secure a record contract with Mercury…

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David Bowie’s Space Oddity is getting a 50th anniversary re-issue

by Happy

Inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi film 2001: A Space Odyssey, David Bowie released Space Oddity in 1969, which quickly became the hit that launched his career. To…

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A stack of early Bowie demos are getting released on vinyl this year

by Mia Hull

In 1969, David Bowie made a series of one-take demos in an effort to secure a record contract with Mercury Records. Thanks to Parlophone, you’ll…

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David Bowie’s earliest demos to be released in new 7″ vinyl box set

by Happy

Parlophone Records are set to commemorate the 50th anniversary of David Bowie’s first hit Space Oddity with the Clareville Grove Demos, a 3×7″ box set containing some…

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9 unreleased David Bowie demos will feature in a brand new boxset

by Joanna Panagopoulos

On what would have been his 72nd birthday, it has been revealed that a new David Bowie box set will be released by Parlophone Records….

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