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Rick Wakeman and David Bowie
"David Bowie said, I hear you play a mean piano": Rick Wakeman on playing on Space Oddity and Hunky Dory, then turning down David Bowie's invitation to join The Spiders From Mars on the same day he joined Yes

By Paul Brannigan Published

Rick Wakeman was a popular and much in-demand musician in the early '70s, as his friend David Bowie would discover to his cost

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David Bowie on the set of the Jump You Say video
David Bowie: curator, mentor, nurturer, counter-intuitive collaborator, hard rock lover, surfer of the zeitgeist, Tin Machine genius

By David Sinclair Published

The death of David Bowie in 2016 sent a seismic shock through the music world, but his chameleon career colours a legacy that endures far beyond his passing

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Four Ziggy Stardust-era David Bowie B-side tracks will arrive on Record Store Day as part of the new Waiting In The Sky (Before The Starman Came To Earth) LP

By Liz Scarlett Published

Some rare Bowie cuts are getting a proper release

Albums
BBC vinyl auction
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

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Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones and Robert Plant
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

Bands & Artists
David Bowie in his apartment at Haddon Hall Beckenham Kent England in 1970
"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

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David Bowie in 1997
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

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David Bowie with his band The Manish Boys outside BBC TV Centre in London
“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

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Rob Halford at Xmas
"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

Tracks & Singles
Fripp, Eno, Bowie in Berlin, 1977
"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

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