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David Bowie releases new single
Topic Started: Jan 8 2013, 08:09 AM (684 Views)
becky sharp
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David Bowie is 66 today and is celebrating it by bringing out a single,Where Are We Now?, from his new album due out in March that seems to have caught the music business on the hop.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jan/08/david-bowie-new-album-single
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madfor4

He shares his birthday with 'Elvis' and 'Mrs. Mads'.....BTW I didn't forget <hug>
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It was on Today this morning ...... very plaintive. There is talk that he has had some big health problems - don't know if anything more specific is known.
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Bleak video, not sure about that at all :(
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becky sharp
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Happy Birthday to Mrs Mads .... <bubbly>

I've heard the song a couple of times now and quite like it.
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...think he's had problems with his heart....since an angioplasty procedure after a heart attack backstage at a gig in Germany in 2004, he has been maintaining a moderately quiet and healthy lifestyle...

Agree with Rum about the video - gave up on it before the end.....
Edited by Mobson, Jan 8 2013, 06:58 PM.
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becky sharp
Jan 8 2013, 06:56 PM
Happy Birthday to Mrs Mads .... <bubbly>

I've heard the song a couple of times now and quite like it.
Thanks becks....Not impressed with the video but perhaps the song will grow on me...

I feel that 'comebacks' rarely, if ever, work...I listened to 'Pet' Clarke's new version of 'Downtown' on 'Today'... <huh????> She shouldn't have bothered....
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caissier
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The video is by a 'video artist' ........ wassat??? It looks like a short piece of film.

Maybe it is as poetry is to prose.
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becky sharp
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Have just heard this.....

David Bowie single tops iTunes chart, critics are largely impressed

Fans welcomed the return of David Bowie, and the hashtags #Bowie and #DavidBowie were trending on Twitter after his first new song in nearly a decade was launched.

Where Are We Now? shot to the top of the British iTunes chart mere hours after it was released on Tuesday morning, the day the British rock icon turned 66 years old.

Early reaction from the public to the song, by one of pop music's most gifted and enigmatic figures was mixed, :) but critics were largely impressed.

Where Are We Now?, produced by long-term collaborator Tony Visconti, is a melancholic look back to the time Bowie spent in Berlin in the 1970s with an accompanying video featuring black-and-white footage of the city when it was still divided.

http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/lifestyle/story/david-bowie-single-tops-itunes-chart-critics-are-largely-impressed-201
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Article about David Bowie's time living in East Berlin .....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jan/13/bowie-berlin-sturm-drang-wall

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Bowie lived on the rather anonymous, unfashionable Hauptstrasse, in a seven-room apartment he initially shared with Iggy Pop, stocking the fridge with delicacies bought from the posh fine food department at the nearby KaDeWe department store. While others chose the rather more funky hotspot Kreuzberg, "Bowie was more at home" there, says Claudia Skoda, a fashion designer friend. Asked in an interview with Der Tagesspiegel a decade ago if he remembered his address, Bowie shot back: "Hauptstrasse 155 in Schöneberg." 'You still remember it after 25 years?' the interviewer asked. "I will never forget it," Bowie replied. "They were very important years."
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Good research Caiss....wonder what went on behind all those windows eh!


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Suede were known as great admirers of David Bowie but they must have been cursing him a little last week when he decided to release his first new song just hours after they released their first new song in 10 years too.... <yikes>

Barriers was lost in the blizzard of Bowie hype but it's an exciting, energetic return...pick it up for free here.....

http://suedebarriers.viinyl.com/
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May-Cee

Although it's called "The Berlin Trilogy", it's Eno rather than Berlin that links the three albums.
In my head, the Trilogy goes back one album.
I think of it as -

"Station To Station" / "Low" / "Heroes"

Musically and thematically - and in terms of quality - I think it works better that way.

To reinforce my theory...

"Station To Station" and "Low" both feature on the sleeve an image of Bowie taken from "The Man Who Fell To Earth".

(Still don't know what a TVC15 is but!)
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From Uncut magazine

The Next Day is streaming at iTunes.com/davidbowie, and will be available until the album's release on March 11.

Just click on a link in the magazine to listen ...but remember it's only available for a few more days

The full tracklisting for The Next Day is:

'The Next Day'
'Dirty Boys'
'The Stars (Are Out Tonight)'
'Love Is Lost'
'Where Are We Now?'
'Valentine's Day'
'If You Can See Me'
'I'd Rather Be High'
'Boss Of Me'
'Dancing Out In Space'
'How Does The Grass Grow'
'(You Will) Set The World On Fire'
'You Feel So Lonely You Could Die'
'Heat'

Deluxe Version bonus tracks

'So She'
'I'll Take You There'
'Plan'


http://www.uncut.co.uk/hear-new-david-bowie-album-the-next-day-in-full-news#cWP1SXTBO0X0YomH.99
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