"Ground Control to Major Tom." Before he was Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, or the Thin White Duke, David Bowie was better known as the Brixton-born David Robert Jones. Raised by the jazz of the London ...
A 1977 song from one of the most iconic singers of the decade has recently been ranked as the "best classic rock song of all time." David Bowie's "Heroes" has long been celebrated as a masterpiece.
David Bowie's Always Crashing in the Same Car is inspired by his real-life driving incident involving a drug dealer.
Bowie obviously never planned to tour with the album but the jazz group with which he recorded it finally devised a way it could do so. “Blackstar Symphony: The Music of David Bowie ” had a splendid, ...
David Bowie's impact on modern pop music continues to be massive almost a decade after his death And yet, Bowie released an astonishing amount of music for an artist who had a love-hate relationship ...
It’s hard to introduce David Bowie in much the same way it’s hard to formally introduce The Beatles, or The Sopranos, or the films of Steven Spielberg. Everyone knows how significant all these things ...
Bowie has always been excellent at taking on cover tracks. He covered everyone from Nine Inch Nails to The Velvet Underground. However, his art-pop era yielded less successful results in terms of ...
These classic rock jams from the 1980s were great, but one memorable line really brought them to charting acclaim.
Elvis Presley and David Bowie are two of the most influential artists in music history, but few fans know that Bowie once wrote a song specifically for the King of Rock and Roll. That song was none ...
"Where Are We Now" got an early morning premiere along with news that the influential singer will release his first album in 10 years. By Shirley Halperin The revered and, in recent years, reclusive ...