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David Bowie didn't just write Mott The Hoople's biggest hit, he single-handedly saved their career
By Niall Doherty published
David Bowie didn't just gift Mott The Hoople a great song, but taught them that to write great songs of their own, "every second of every bar had to have something special about it"

“David was furious: 'I won’t have that kind of disloyalty!’" The real reason David Bowie ended Ziggy Stardust and sacked the Spiders From Mars
By Tom Poak published
50 years ago, David Bowie announced that he was playing his last ever show. It marked a split from the men who had revitalised his career – and it was all over money…

Bowie on film: the stories behind 10 classic David Bowie movies
By Stephen Dalton published
From The Man Who Fell To Earth to The Hunger, this is the best of David Bowie on the big screen

"Don't you EVER say that to me!" Lou Reed and David Bowie once had a fist-fight in a London restaurant and it got very, very ugly
By Paul Brannigan published
When the Thin White Duke met Lou Reed's fists of fury

Watch David Bowie's electrifying performance of Fashion at the 1996 Fashion Awards for a reminder of how he was truly far cooler than us all
By Liz Scarlett published
David Bowie appeared at the VH1 Fashion Awards in 1996 and strutted his way through a performance of Fashion and Little Wonder in his iconic Alexander McQueen Union Jack coat

A beginner’s guide to Krautrock in five essential albums
By Chris Roberts published
The genre with the joke name that stuck: With a sonic imprint still discernible in all corners of music, these are five albums that tell the story of Krautrock

Watch David Bowie create Tina Turner in a laboratory in this Pepsi commercial
By Liz Scarlett published
In 1987, the late Tina Turner appeared in a Pepsi ad with David Bowie, duetting on his 1983 song Modern Love

Noel Gallagher shares regrets about meeting David Bowie while "high and p*ssed": "I have no recollection of it whatsoever"
By Liz Scarlett published
If he could re-play his meeting with David Bowie, Noel Gallagher knows what he would say: "I’d tell him, ‘I’m gonna rip you off to f**k when you’re dead, you know."
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