London’s Victoria & Albert Museum has acquired David Bowie’s archive of more than 80,000 items as a gift from the late musician’s estate. The collection includes costumes, instruments, letters, photos, lyrics, and much more, including a Ziggy Stardust jumpsuit, his Alladin Sane tour costumes, handwritten lyrics for 'Heroes,' and notebooks Bowie kept throughout his lifetime. In 2025, the collection will be viewable at The David Bowie Center for the Study of Performing Arts, part of V&A East Storehouse, which is being built in east London’s Olympic Park. The collection was secured by the David Bowie Estate, while a 10 million pound donation from the Blavatnik Family Foundation and Warner Music Group will go toward a display and home at the V&A East location.

Rolling Stone presents the new David Bowie documentary 'Moonage Daydream', Brett Morgen’s "extraordinary portrait of the late artist as cosmic philosopher, glam trickster, and sage-like cypher via a stream-of-consciousness blend of vintage performances, rare archival clips and career-spanning interviews... For Morgen, the project would turn out to be a five-year odyssey that included a near-death experience, a hobo-like trip through New Mexico, and a radical rethinking of what it means to balance the professional and the personal when making a music doc".

A new David Bowie documentary 'Moonage Daydream', directed by Brett Morgen (best known for the Kurt Cobain doc, Montage of Heck) and the first Bowie doc to have the approval of the late musician’s estate, is set to screen at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. The film is described as both a concert documentary and an “experimental cinematic odyssey” that will track Bowie’s life and career, delving into his work as a musician, but also his multidisciplinary approach to his craft. Ethan Coen’s doc, 'Jerry L

David Bowie's estate has sold his publishing catalog to Warner Chappell Music for upwards of $250 million, Variety reports. The deal includes songs such as 'Heroes', 'Changes', 'Space Oddity', Rebel Rebel', 'Ziggy Stardust' and hundreds more from the 26 studio albums released during his lifetime, as well as the posthumous studio album release, 'Toy', which comes out on Friday.

Decades before Merch Mercuriadis's Hipgnosis Fund started spending billions of dollars on famous artists' catalogs, David Bowie did a similar thing. In 1997 he sold 10-year-security on his entire catalog for $55 million to Prudential Insurance at a fixed interest rate, backed by the royalties from his pre-1990 master recordings and publishing. In essence, he gave up a decade's worth of royalties on 'Heroes', 'Life on Mars', and everything else in exchange for an immediate payout, MusicREDEF reminded us and started a thread about it. Last 12 months Bob Dylan, Shakira, Imagine Dragons and many others did a similar thing - it's a lasting deal, not just 10 years.

David Bowie’s friends, collaborators, and some of the musicians he inspired performed a tribute to celebrate his 74th birthday, CoS reports. Trent Reznor performed covers of 'Fantastic Voyage' and 'Fashion', Billy Corgan played 'Space Oddity', Duran Duran covered 'Five Years', The Cult’s Ian Astbury tackled 'Lazarus', Bowie’s friend Gary Oldman sang 'I Can’t Read', Slipknot’s Corey Taylor, Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins, and Jane’s Addiction’s Dave Navarro and Chris Chaney covered 'Hang On to Yourself'. Other participants included Macy Gray, Adam Lambert, Boy George, Lzzy Hale, Peter Frampton, Perry Farrell, Gary Barlow, Anna Calvi... Guardian looks back on Bowie's legacy five years after his death, quoting writer Dan Fox - “He was the greatest art student of the 20th century. He never stopped learning, never stopped being curious. I think you can use his work as a model: don’t be afraid to admit ‘I don’t know’, and go and find someone who does”.

The U.K.'s Royal Mint pressed a special coin of the late, great David Bowie and sent it to space to have it offered as a competition prize, BBC reports. Earlier, the Mint pressed and released the collectibles which celebrate different stages in Bowie’s career. The one-ounce silver proof coin made a 45 minutes trip by balloon to the edge of space to an altitude of 35,656m before safely returning to the earth. It’s to be offered as a competition prize on the Royal Mint’s Facebook page. Bowie is the third to feature in the Royal Mint’s 'Music Legends' collection following Queen and Elton John, both issued earlier in 2020.

Grayceon play hard-to-define-easy-to-listen-to music on 'Diablo Wind', let's just call it psych-folk post-metal; 'Bloodrush' is an intense electro-rap song with Andrew Broder, Denzel Curry, Dua Saleh, & Haleek Maul on board; Weather Station make a u-turn from folk - 'Robber' is jazzy alter-pop; James Blake releases 'Before', a cold and dancey new song, with haunting strings; an old Elton John song, 'Regimental Sgt. Zippo', very Beatles-sounding, is out now; members of Napalm Death, Converge, Megadeth, and Nasum reactivated the Blood From The Soul project - 'Debris of Dreams'; Ahya Simone takes a harpist angle to R'n'B with 'Frostbite'; new pop-folk band Thunder Dreamer present themselves with 'Of a Million'; Weird Al shares his first non-comedy song, a Portugal. The Man collaboration 'Who's Gonna Stop Me'; Bad Religion release 'What Are We Standing For' in solidarity with athletes taking a knee; Kristeen Young has taken her 2003 David Bowie collaboration 'Savior' and reimagined it as new track 'American Landfill', an unusual song with an unusual video; horn-player CARM shares a Justin Vernon pop-classical collaboration 'Land'; Americana lady Iris DeMent had a lot to say about the world today, so she made 'Going Down To Sing In Texas'; Open Mike Eagle delivers some clever punches on 'Death Parade'.

David Bowie's 1970 album 'The Man Who Sold the World' is being reissued in November, with its original title 'Metrobolist', an homage to Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis', Brooklyn Vegan reports. The reissue has been remixed by the album's producer, Tony Visconti, except for 'After All' which Visconti considered perfect as is. New artwork was designed by Mike Weller, who did the original design which Mercury Records found too controversial at the time. Bowie said in 2000 that "Weller devised this kind of very subversive looking cartoon and put in some quite personalised things. The building in the background on the cartoon in fact was the hospital where my half brother had committed himself to".

The clip features Johnny Flynn as David Bowie in conversation with Marc Maron, who portrays his publicist Ron Oberman, Variety reports. “All it takes is one believer to change the world, right? And we’ve got two,” Maron says. “You believe in yourself, don’t you?”. Producers insist the upcoming film is not a biopic, with writer and director Gabriel Range saying in a statement - “I set out to make a film about what makes someone become an artist; what actually drives them to make their art”. If focuses on Bowie’s transformation into Ziggy Stardust in the early ’70s.

David Bowie, Gorillaz, Black Sabbath, New Order, kd Lang, Notorious BIG, My Chemical Romance, John Lennon, Grateful Dead, Neil Young, Prince and Pink Floyd, among others, are releasing exclusive records on Record Store Day. The big day is on April 18.

"The most influential forerunners of punk on their respective sides of the Atlantic, these trailblazers established the tenets of glam that would serve as the foundations for future glam-punk" - PopMatters writes in an easy to read essay about the beginnings of glam-punk. "The transition of raw rock from garage to glam began in the mid-60s when Reed met Warhol... Striking pre-political poses that challenged the conventions of gender, sexuality, and class, Warhol's posse of eccentrics became an inspiration to the young Reed, who felt encouraged to ignore any pressures to compromise and to charge full-on with his decadent musings".

Paramore's front-lady Hayley Williams has a solo debut album coming out in May, and she announced it with 'Simmer', a subtle exercise in how to draw the line between wrath and mercy; Scottish folk, Hindustani classical music and jazz make great companions on 'The North Carr' by James Yorkston, Suhail Yusuf Khan and Jon Thorne; U.S. Girls does some almost-religious rock at 'Overtime'; 'I Can’t Read 97' is an acoustic version of David Bowie's 1980s song by his short-lived hard-rock band Tin Machine; Porridge Radio reinvent the Pixies’ loud-quiet-loud trademark on 'Sweet'.

Previously unseen footage of David Bowie shot in 1998, recovered from a university archive has been released. The 30 minutes of experimental film was shot by friend and collaborator Prof Martin Richardson to create a hologram. The finished short film was used on artwork on the album 'Hours'.

Parlophone Records has shared a previously unreleased version of David Bowie's 'The Man Who Sold the World' yesterday on what would have been singer's 73rd birthday. The largely acoustic rendition, recorded in November of 1996, was aired a few months later on Bowie's 50th birthday. 'The Man...' is 50 years young this year, and it is […]

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Loudwire is looking forward to the Helloween season, so they made a list of 15 musicians from rock and metal milleu, all the way from David Bowie in the 'Hunger' to Slipknot's Corey Taylor in 'Fear Clinic'.

Nothing in pop-culture is outrageous and everything makes sense, right?, so a David Bowie inspired Barbie doll is just fine. Toymakers Mattel have announced a new collectable doll inspired by his signature Ziggy Stardust fashion. Dubbed Barbie as Bowie, the doll is dressed as the late singer's glam-rock alter ego, complete with a pair of […]

Johnny Depp recorded a cover of one of David Bowie’s biggest hits, 'Heroes', together with his bandmates in the supergroup Hollywood Vampires which includes Alice Cooper and Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry. They recorded it last year at Berlin’s Hansa Studios, in the same place Bowie recorded it in summer of '77, Blabbermouth reports. Video includes […]

A reel-to-reel tape featuring three unreleased David Bowie demos will be auctioned later this month in England. Bowie recorded the demos for his debut album in 1967, but none of the songs made the final cut. The tape includes the 'Did You Ever Have a Dream' (which landed on Bowie’s 1981 compilation 'Another Face') and three unheard tracks - 'Funny Smile', 'Pussy […]

The first-known recording by David Bowie has sold at auction in Britain for £39.360, fetching around four times the expected price of £10.000. The recording was made when he was the 16-year-old singer of a band called the Konrads. Bowie left the Konrads shortly afterwards and did not achieve stardom until six years later. Promotional sketches by […]