David Bowie Debuts Ziggy Stardust with Starman on Top of the Pops On 6 July 1972, David Bowie appeared on the BBC’s Top of the Pops to perform Starman. For many viewers across Britain, this was the first time they had seen Bowie fully transformed into Ziggy Stardust, the flame-haired … Read more
Nobody played a bigger role through the entirety of David Bowie’s career than Tony Visconti, an influential figure who was on production duty intermittently for decades. Having worked on production and arrangement of Bowie’s 1968 single ‘In the Heat of the Morning’ / ‘London Bye Ta-Ta’, Visconti enjoyed the Bowie ride … Read more
David Bowie was lucky enough to have a somewhat segmented career. As the chameleon rock star would attest to, he deliberately created stop and start points throughout his varied career. Though Bowie had many different personas during his time in music, he was clear on when they began and ended. … Read more
The posthumous David Bowie bounty will continue on April 18 with the the releaese of a special Record Store Day rarity live album. I’m Only Dancing (The Soul Tour 74) pulls together previously unreleased tapes from shows in Nashville and Detroit in 1974. The new album joins another upcoming Record … Read more
In honor of what would have been David Bowie’s 73rd birthday, Parlophone Records announced Wednesday that they would be releasing two collections of rare and previously unreleased David Bowie tracks. The collections will be released as a streaming-only EP and a physical album that will become available on April 18th, … Read more
