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The BBC is selling off rare Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, The Beatles and er, Bathory albums from its Gramophone Library if you want to expand your vinyl collection
By Paul Brannigan published
The BBC are to auction off a staggering 285,000 vinyl records over the next year-and-a-half, starting from January 30

10 times bands made masterpieces late in their career
By Joe Daly published
Some bands run out of juice towards the ends of their career. These bands and artists are the exception

"On the Space Oddity album we had no idea what we were doing. So we tried something different, something harder": the making of David Bowie's The Man Who Sold The World
By Bill DeMain published
In 1970 David Bowie was a one-hit wonder, but The Man Who Sold The World helped him recalibrate his sound and vision, setting him on a path to becoming a decade-defining artist

I went, ‘Yeah, David Bowie, you’re a complete c*nt'... and that was the start of a 13-year relationship.” Film director Tim Pope on working with Bowie
By Niall Doherty published
The director was behind the lens on a number of promo clips and also filmed Bowie's 50th birthday bash

“He wasn’t taken seriously on the London scene because he was into mime and he wasn’t a total hippy”: the turbulent story of David Bowie’s early years
By Julian Marszalek published
Even superstars have to begin somewhere – and for the young David Bowie it was with a string of flop 1960s singles and a bizarre appearance on the BBC

"Yes, we all want to bang our heads at Christmas, but we also want to sit down with a cup of tea and a mince pie and have a bit of a chillout": Rob Halford's 8 favourite Christmas songs
By Mark Blake published
Metal God Rob Halford salutes the most wonderful time of the year, as he selects his eight favourite Christmas songs

"In the mid-1970s, Berlin was a terrifying place to be. At Hansa Studio, you looked out the window and there was an East German machine gun turret": King Crimson's Robert Fripp looks back on recording "Heroes" with David Bowie and Brian Eno
By Paul Brannigan published
"If the machine gunner wasn't a Bowie fan, he could've sprayed us!" Robert Fripp on working with David Bowie in Berlin

“Poor Iggy became a guinea pig for what I wanted to do with sound”: in 1977, David Bowie moved to Berlin to kick drugs. He emerged with five albums that changed music forever
By Ian Fortnam published
Two Iggy Pop albums and the ‘Berlin Trilogy’ – the second half of the 1970s was David Bowie’s most groundbreaking period

On the night David Bowie said goodbye to glam rock he was accompanied by The Troggs and a stoned Marianne Faithfull dressed as a nun
By Fraser Lewry published
David Bowie's The 1980 Floor Show: filmed in London in 1973 for a US audience, with an unlikely supporting cast and a final farewell from Ziggy Stardust

“Rock’n’roll is dead. It’s a toothless old woman. It’s really embarrassing”: how David Bowie turned his back on glam rock to make his ‘plastic soul’ masterpiece Young Americans
By Chris Roberts published
Drugs, madness and an ex-Beatle – the crazed story of David Bowie’s 1975 album Young Americans
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