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Post  Adric Sat Jun 04, 2016 5:57 pm

More Bowie songs on their way, longtime producer says ...

David Bowie fans can expect many more hits from the late singer in the coming years, his friend and longtime producer said.

Tony Visconti revealed that he is in talks with Bowie’s management to release songs that Bowie recorded and never released, including five for a follow-up to his final album Blackstar.

Blackstar, which Tony worked on, was released on Bowie’s 69th birthday, just two days before his death in January from cancer.

He told the Standard: “I haven’t heard those (five) songs yet.

“I might actually have to help his managerial company to find them.

“I have an idea where he might have recorded them, but there is also a lot of unreleased material from many albums.”

The 72-year-old superproducer continued: “I think it’s logical that over the next few years, you’re going to hear a lot of stuff that you haven’t heard before.

“I’m in talks with his management and his label – there’s going to be some great Bowie stuff coming out.”

Tony worked with Bowie intermittently from his second album, 1969′s Space Oddity, to his final album, including the acclaimed “Berlin trilogy” of Low, Heroes and Lodger.

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Post  misery guts Sun Jun 05, 2016 6:38 am

Yeah, like Prince, it's a pretty certain bet that more Rarities Boxsets will be a-coming, maybe for this Autumn, but surely in 2017 & beyond.
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Post  misery guts Tue Jul 05, 2016 7:41 am

misery guts wrote:The continuing celebrations now include the announcement that the annual Proms extravaganza this summer will include one Prom dedicated to the music of David Bowie.
Philip Glass' Heroes Symphony @ Glastonbury 2016
Conducted by Charles Hazlewood, this piece was performed with accompanying lightshow on Saturday night, and I'll be honest, I was hard pushed to recognise much of it, if indeed I was meant to.
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Post  misery guts Sat Aug 06, 2016 1:14 am

Bowie's final album has earned him a posthumous nomination for the Mercury Music Prize.

25th year of the prize
The full list of nominees is:
◾️Anohni - Hopelessness
◾️Bat For Lashes - The Bride
◾️David Bowie - Blackstar
◾️Jamie Woon - Making Time
◾️Kano - Made In The Manor
◾️Laura Mvula - The Dreaming Room
◾️Michael Kiwanuka - Love and Hate
◾️Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
◾️Savages - Adore Life
◾️Skepta - Konnichiwa
◾️The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep...
◾️The Comet Is Coming - Channel The Spirits
The usual mix of the known and the unknown there Rolling Eyes
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Post  misery guts Wed Aug 17, 2016 9:06 am

BBC Proms: David Bowie
Much hyped beforehand, this was frankly an embarrassment. With the backing of the Stargaze Orchestra, various singers came on to prove they couldn't remotely sing Dave's songs as well as he did. This format reminded me of the Freddie Mercury Tribute concert (I believe the Americans have something similar called Musicares, in a good cause). Here we had Marc Almond, Laura Mvula, Neil Hannon (of the Divine Comedy), John Cale, Anna Calvi and others. So, somewhat E-list. The finale, where the audience were encouraged to join in with "Let's Dance" was probably the most spirited part of the gig.
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Post  misery guts Tue Sep 20, 2016 8:49 am

The Bowie musical "Lazarus" will be moving from New York to London, running from Oct 25, to Jan 22.

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The 25th anniversary of the album award. To fill up the hour, the 12 contenders were whittled down to 6 performing a song each (with Michael C Hall subbing for Dave). Jarvis Cocker was deputed from amongst the judges to read out the winner. He referred to a final choice of "two black stars". Since Laura Mvula and Michael Kiwanuka were among the final 6, this was just to make reference to Bowie's album title. Cocker than claimed Dave would have approved of the final winner... Skepta. I was happy enough with that result, when Radiohead and The 1975 rounded out the 6.
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Post  misery guts Fri Nov 04, 2016 9:11 am

A commissioned statue of the late, great man, will play music every hour:

Ziggy in Aylesbury
A planned statue of singer David Bowie as his Ziggy Stardust character will sing "on the hour every hour", supporters claim.
A crowdfunding appeal has begun to raise £100,000 for the statue in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire - the town where Ziggy was first performed.
Speakers above the coloured bronze will play one of 2,000 tracks every hour.
Looks like it's a while before it happens, though.

Meanwhile, some of his art collection is going up for sale:

He did know about Art, and he knew what he liked
His family has kept a large chunk back - maybe around a third - including a Lynn Chadwick sculpture called Teddy Boy and Girl.
According to Kate Chertavian, his art buying advisor between 1992-2000, this is the artwork that precipitated an eight-year fine art spending spree by the late pop star, the results of which make up the bulk of what will go under the hammer next Thursday.
Nobody was very keen to talk about the art that's not in the sale, but I got the sense that the auction contained the pieces that either had less emotional resonance with his family, or were deemed to be the weaker works: what you might call the B-side of his art collection.
So that auction will presumably be on the 10th.

Finally, The BBC have announced a forthcoming documentary looking at the last 5 years of his life:

Another Five Years
The last five years of David Bowie's life will be examined in a new BBC documentary, to be screened on the first anniversary of his death.
The film will focus on the star's final two albums, The Next Day and Blackstar, alongside the stage musical Lazarus, which recently opened in London.
It will be directed by Francis Whately as a follow-up to his acclaimed 2013 documentary, David Bowie: Five Years.
The film will feature new interviews and unseen footage, the BBC said.
There will inevitably be a series of shows in tribute around the 1st anniversary of his death Crying or Very sad
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Post  misery guts Wed Nov 09, 2016 8:40 am

His Exhibition has apparently broken big box-office records, or something:

EVen the Toronto Sun says so
Since its opening, the exhibition has travelled all over the world. So far 1.5 million visitors have taken in the Bowie-themed showcase in countries including Canada, Brazil and France.
About 312,000 of those visitors were attributed to the exhibition’s debut at the V&A museum, a record breaking figure.
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Post  misery guts Fri Nov 11, 2016 8:57 am

The auction of his art has obviously been held at the right time, because it's going great guns:

David Bowie art auction: First day smashes estimate with £24m total
The first day of the auction of art owned by David Bowie has taken £24.3m ($30.7m) - more than double the pre-sale estimate.
The 47 artworks sold at Sotheby's in London on Thursday had been valued at between £8.1m ($10.2m) and £11.7m ($14.Cool.
The most expensive lot was Jean-Michel Basquiat's Air Power, which went for £7.1m ($9m).
Meanwhile, Frank Auerbach's Head of Gerda Boehm fetched £3.8m ($4.8m).
A further 309 works owned by the late singer are going up for sale on Friday.
But the most valuable pieces went under the hammer on Thursday.
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Post  misery guts Tue Dec 06, 2016 9:44 am

misery guts wrote:A commissioned statue of the late, great man, will play music every hour:

Ziggy in Aylesbury
A planned statue of singer David Bowie as his Ziggy Stardust character will sing "on the hour every hour", supporters claim.
A crowdfunding appeal has begun to raise £100,000 for the statue in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire - the town where Ziggy was first performed.
Speakers above the coloured bronze will play one of 2,000 tracks every hour.
Looks like it's a while before it happens, though.
Well, there's been progress on this one:

David Bowie Ziggy Stardust statue reaches £100k target
More than 650 people pledged sums, from £10 to £6,000, for the bronze sculpture, enabling it to beat Tuesday's deadline to raise the cash.
Mr Stopps said: "We are very grateful to everybody. It's been a Biblical 40 days. The bottom line now is that the statue will happen."
About 30% of the pledges were from outside the UK.
Adele's record company and 80s musician, Howard Jones were among six donators giving £6,000.
Bowie's booking agent, John Giddings born in nearby Hertfordshire pledged £5,000.
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Post  misery guts Mon Jan 09, 2017 8:31 am

Yesterday would have been his 70th birthday, and so there was a charity concert to mark the occasion:
Stars including Simon Le Bon, Tony Hadley and La Roux were among the performers at the event which came just ahead of the first anniversary of Bowie's death.
Actor Gary Oldman, a close friend of Bowie, sang the first song.
The three-hour show in Brixton, Bowie's birthplace, included performances of hits such as Let's Dance and Changes.
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Post  misery guts Sun Jan 15, 2017 8:29 am

He's received 2 nominations for the forthcoming Brit Awards, since his last album happily was released in the right time frame.

More notably, after rows last year about the lack of BAME nominations, Bowie is in the Best British Male category up against Kano, Skepta, Michael Kiwanuka and Craig David. Plus, he's dead, so that should solve that one.
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Post  misery guts Thu Jan 19, 2017 8:41 am

misery guts wrote:Finally, The BBC have announced a forthcoming documentary looking at the last 5 years of his life:

Another Five Years
The last five years of David Bowie's life will be examined in a new BBC documentary, to be screened on the first anniversary of his death.
The film will focus on the star's final two albums, The Next Day and Blackstar, alongside the stage musical Lazarus, which recently opened in London.
It will be directed by Francis Whately as a follow-up to his acclaimed 2013 documentary, David Bowie: Five Years.
The film will feature new interviews and unseen footage, the BBC said.
David Bowie - The Last Five Years
Unlike the previous documentary, this did at least focus more closely on its years tag, though weirdly, the selected years seemed to be 2003, and 2012-2015, which basically meant covering his "Reality" Tour, subsequent illness and withdrawal from touring and recording, before he returned with his last 2 albums, and the stage show. The latter felt the most unfamiliar and therefore interesting material - the stories behind his Next Day videos were really for completists rather than casual viewers. There were digressions to earlier periods in his life, too, though for once Nile Rodgers was absent, as was Brian Eno. Happily, Tony Visconti was present and correct, being the producer for the last albums.
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Post  misery guts Thu Feb 23, 2017 8:26 am

Bowie managed to become the first posthumous winner of any Brit Awards, both for Album of the year, and Best British Male.

Meanwhile, another memorial is planned, in Brixton:

Assuming crowdfunding meets their goal
A crowdfunding campaign to erect a permanent memorial to David Bowie has been launched by a team of south London designers.
The campaign aims to raise just under £1m in the next 28 days to fund the art installation opposite Brixton Tube station.
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Post  misery guts Fri Mar 03, 2017 8:08 am

Auction: David Bowie - Collector
Sotheby's at London held 3 days of auctions of Bowie's art collection, with rare pieces by Basquiat, Auerbach, Hirst and so on. There were big visitor numbers even for a preview event. There was some concern that the Trump Effect would engineer uncertainty over prices. In fact, they mostly went for well above their estimates, raising £24mill at the 1st event, and once the other dates, including sculptures and other things were added it, the final total was above £40mill. Such is the world of art.
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Post  misery guts Fri Mar 24, 2017 8:10 am

misery guts wrote:Meanwhile, another memorial is planned, in Brixton:

Assuming crowdfunding meets their goal
A crowdfunding campaign to erect a permanent memorial to David Bowie has been launched by a team of south London designers.
The campaign aims to raise just under £1m in the next 28 days to fund the art installation opposite Brixton Tube station.
Guess what?

It failed, miserably
The campaign needed to raise £900,000 but had gathered £50,000 in pledges by its four-week deadline, so no funds will be taken from people.
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Post  misery guts Mon Apr 10, 2017 7:13 am

Passions: Mick Ronson, by Gary Kemp
The Spandau Ballet songwriter eulogised the Hull guitar whizz who worked closely with David Bowie on his Ziggy Stardust era albums, having been recommended by a friend. He helped with the orchestrations, and formed a power unit with David that supposedly inspired later units like Morrissey & Marr or Anderson & Butler. Kemp attended the infamous Hammersmith Odeon gig in 1973 where Bowie "had to break up the band". Ronno went on to work with Ian Hunter after his own solo LP wasn't the success that had been expected. He appeared at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert along with Hunter & Bowie (and others) when they did "All The Young Dudes". But he died of liver cancer that same year. Kemp tracked down his signature Gibson Les Paul, now in the hands of a collector.
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Post  misery guts Wed Apr 12, 2017 7:00 am

The Friday Night Rock Show - 7/4/17
Ian Hunter was the guest interviewee here, partly because of his recent Fingers Crossed album, but also for a mammoth 30 disc boxset retrospective, with 454 tracks on CDs and DVDs. Still happily working at 77. One track on the album is Dandy, which became a tribute to Bowie after starting as something else, a fan's reflection. A longtime friend and drummer died the same week as Bowie but was understandably overlooked in the furore. He was always amazed that Bowie just have Mott the Hoople All The Young Dudes, because he knew he wouldn't have done so if it had been the other way round. He also mention getting mandrax tablets from Dr Robert, his seminal classic Diary of a Rock n Roll Star, and buying a couple of Bob Dylan's paintings when he checked out an exhibition. One of rock's great characters is Ian.
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Post  misery guts Thu Jun 15, 2017 5:49 am

Ronno : Beside Bowie - The Mick Ronson Story
Jon Brewer, a former manager, puts together this epic tale of the school gardener from Hull who turned out to be a great guitarist, pianist and orchestrator. But not always great shakes with money. Not that he wasted it, but he didn't often get his full due, especially whilst David Bowie was under the management of Tony de Fries. He impressed many fellow musicians, and associates, but might have been better treated by Bowie. He was able to hang in there when the other Spiders from Mars got cut off all of a sudden, but his own solo adventures weren't always successful because he wasn't really a frontman, however talented. He died of liver cancer in 1993, symptomatic of his earlier troubles, as he probably could have been diagnosed earlier. But his widow and his sister, and his many supporters still fan his flame (Ian Hunter, Joe Elliott, Mark Nevin, Bob Harris, Glen Matlock and Earl Slick featured among many inclusions, plus archive of Ronno himself, and new audio from Bowie).
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Rock N Roll Guns For Hire - The Story of the Sidemen
Earl Slick presented this, having worked on & off with David Bowie since 1974. The sidemen (and women) gave an added lift usually in the live arena, but sometimes in the studio as well. Slick understood his status, and how precarious it might be if he wasn't needed. Bernard Fowler has been helping the Rolling Stones with vocals since the mid-80s, and they all spoke highly of him, but he still felt the itch to be a proper lead singer in his own right. Crystal Taliefero was proud of working for Billy Joel, and he spoke highly of her too. Wendy & Lisa enjoyed being part of Prince's Revolution, but felt he could have been more honest in giving them credit. Their solo career didn't take off due to industry sexism. Perhaps the most content of all was Steve Cropper, who worked with Booker T and Otis Redding during the heyday of Stax. Slick summarised by saying that the age of the side-players seems to be coming to an end.
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Post  misery guts Fri Jul 14, 2017 8:01 am

Needle Time: Thomas Dolby
The 80s legend behind Hyperactive! and She Blinded Me With Science spoke of how he was drawn to music, away from his family of professors, how he was asked to collaborate with Michael Jackson (but Jacko only liked the "drums" on Hyperactive!) and was part of David Bowie's backing band at Live Aid, a fraught experience but unforgettable. After his career wound down in the 90s, he turned to computers and helped create a program which Nokia used for its ringtones on mobile phones. Dolby now spends time as a professor at a university in Baltimore, and he's recently written his book.
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Post  misery guts Wed Oct 11, 2017 6:42 am

Needle Time: Adrian Belew
Guitar whizz whose got his career break working in Frank Zappa's band. He was spotted there by Brian Eno in the late 1970s, and "stolen" away to join David Bowie in the making of his Lodger LP, done to see out a deal with RCA. He then worked with Talking Heads on their Remain In Light LP, and was brought into King Crimson, where he worked alongside Robert Fripp for more than 30 years. He also put out more than 20 solo albums, and returned to the Bowie fold as music director on his 1990 world tour, and duetting on a song called Pretty Pink Rose. Now he is part of the Gizmodrome super-group with Stewart Copeland, Mark King etc
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Post  misery guts Mon Oct 16, 2017 7:50 am

Tony Visconti's Unsigned Heroes
This was a 6-part series with the veteran producer (and friends) trawling the UK & Ireland to select 11 acts to appear at a special concert, held back in July. He got them all covering tracks from acts he had produced, and most of them ended up doing Bowie tunes. One aspect that Tony claimed to be keen on was allowing acts to reinterpret tracks as they saw fit. So a violinist created a cinematic and vocal-free version of Ashes to Ashes. But for others, Tony was less open. One poor singer was asked to learn Hazel O'Connor's Will You? and then after she had, found that Tony wanted her to sing a slightly different version of it! Worst was the poor folk singer who learned Lazarus, and was then expected to do Young Americans, backed by a funk band! I get that Tony and others were pushing some acts to exceed their comfort zone, but it seemed ridiculous to treat some fairly and others unfairly. Anyway, it was a great gig, and the acts were all very talented. Bob Geldof and Imelda May helped out with the singing, and Nitin Sawhney was musical director, whilst Stewart Copeland drummed.
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Post  misery guts Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:15 am

Hansa Studios - By The Wall 1976-90
One of the world's greatest studios, inconveniently (at the time) situated in Berlin. David Bowie, Tony Visconti and Iggy Pop put it on the map with a run of albums made there, especially "Heroes", with its title track infamously referencing Visconti having a sneaky kiss by the Wall. This led Depeche Mode and Nick Cave to follow, and then Marillion and ultimately U2 also hit big with albums they did there. U2's Achtung Baby was the last big album done after the wall came down and Germany reunified. But the studios reopened for rock in 2007 with Supergrass, and R.E.M. also made use of the place with their last album.
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misery guts wrote:
misery guts wrote:A commissioned statue of the late, great man, will play music every hour:

Ziggy in Aylesbury
A planned statue of singer David Bowie as his Ziggy Stardust character will sing "on the hour every hour", supporters claim.
A crowdfunding appeal has begun to raise £100,000 for the statue in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire - the town where Ziggy was first performed.
Speakers above the coloured bronze will play one of 2,000 tracks every hour.
Looks like it's a while before it happens, though.
Well, there's been progress on this one:

David Bowie Ziggy Stardust statue reaches £100k target
More than 650 people pledged sums, from £10 to £6,000, for the bronze sculpture, enabling it to beat Tuesday's deadline to raise the cash.
Mr Stopps said: "We are very grateful to everybody. It's been a Biblical 40 days. The bottom line now is that the statue will happen."
About 30% of the pledges were from outside the UK.
Adele's record company and 80s musician, Howard Jones were among six donators giving £6,000.
Bowie's booking agent, John Giddings born in nearby Hertfordshire pledged £5,000.
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And now at last:

Musical David Bowie statue unveiled in Aylesbury
The bronze sculpture, entitled Earthly Messenger, can be found in Aylesbury's Market Square.
It features a likeness of Bowie in 2002 regarding a selection of his alter egos down the years, with Ziggy at the front.
Speakers mounted above the life-size piece will play a Bowie song every hour.
Singer-songwriter Howard Jones unveiled the piece and called it a "result for Aylesbury".
Bizarre...
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