While filming Basquiat, the 1996 film from director Julian Schnabel, Jeffrey Wright was tasked with slipping into the world of the artist Jean Michel Basquiat. If the nature of the role wasn’t creative enough, he was on set working alongside David Bowie, who was cast to play Andy Warhol. Soon, the lines between the different forms of art at play — film, music, painting — started to blur. During a recent appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Wright recalled Bowie playing unreleased music while on set.
“I remember one day we were...
“I remember one day we were...
- 1/19/2024
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
David Bowie’s Brilliant Live Adventures — an archival series that collected six of the late singer’s Nineties concerts — will conclude with David Bowie at the Kit Kat Klub (Live New York 99), due out April 2nd.
The 12-song performance was originally recorded on November 12th, 1999 at the small venue in front of an invite-only audience of fans and contest winners. The show was webcast in December 1999 and later released as a promotional album.
Joining Bowie onstage at the Kit Kat Klub were longtime collaborators Gail Ann Dorsey on bass, keyboardist Mike Garson,...
The 12-song performance was originally recorded on November 12th, 1999 at the small venue in front of an invite-only audience of fans and contest winners. The show was webcast in December 1999 and later released as a promotional album.
Joining Bowie onstage at the Kit Kat Klub were longtime collaborators Gail Ann Dorsey on bass, keyboardist Mike Garson,...
- 3/17/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
David Bowie’s unreleased covers of John Lennon’s “Mother” and Bob Dylan’s “Tryin’ to Get to Heaven” will be released on what would have been Bowie’s 74th birthday.
Both tracks on the seven-inch vinyl “Birthday Single” — limited to 8,147 copies, including 1,000 pressed on cream vinyl, as well as a digital release — were recorded in the studio by Bowie in 1997 and 1998.
The cover of the Lennon classic “Mother,” from the 1970 LP Plastic Ono Band, was recorded for a planned-but-never-released Lennon tribute album; long-time collaborators Reeves Gabrels and Tony Visconti also play on the track.
Both tracks on the seven-inch vinyl “Birthday Single” — limited to 8,147 copies, including 1,000 pressed on cream vinyl, as well as a digital release — were recorded in the studio by Bowie in 1997 and 1998.
The cover of the Lennon classic “Mother,” from the 1970 LP Plastic Ono Band, was recorded for a planned-but-never-released Lennon tribute album; long-time collaborators Reeves Gabrels and Tony Visconti also play on the track.
- 12/16/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
A trio of Nineties-era David Bowie live releases is set to roll out on streaming in the coming weeks, with LiveandWell.com set to drop May 15. Friday, Parlophone Records dropped a live recording of 1997’s “Little Wonder” (off of Earthling) from Radio City Music Hall in New York, October 15, 1997.
The live album boasts 12 tracks recorded in New York, Amsterdam, Rio De Janeiro and U.K.’s Phoenix festival during the 1997 Earthling tour — it was previously only available to BowieNet subscribers. The record also includes bonus tracks “Pallas Athena,” off of 1993’s Black Tie White Noise,...
The live album boasts 12 tracks recorded in New York, Amsterdam, Rio De Janeiro and U.K.’s Phoenix festival during the 1997 Earthling tour — it was previously only available to BowieNet subscribers. The record also includes bonus tracks “Pallas Athena,” off of 1993’s Black Tie White Noise,...
- 5/8/2020
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
David Bowie’s unreleased Earthling-era semi-instrumental “Nuts” is the latest installment in the Is It Any Wonder? series, a six-week unearthing of rare tracks that the late icon recorded in 1996 and 1997.
“Nuts” was recorded at the same November 1996 studio sessions that yielded Earthling’s “The Last Thing You Should Do,” with the intention that both would be bonus tracks for the album; however, the latter was swapped onto the album at the last minute in place of “I Can’t Read ’97,” which similarly is part of the Is It Any Wonder?...
“Nuts” was recorded at the same November 1996 studio sessions that yielded Earthling’s “The Last Thing You Should Do,” with the intention that both would be bonus tracks for the album; however, the latter was swapped onto the album at the last minute in place of “I Can’t Read ’97,” which similarly is part of the Is It Any Wonder?...
- 2/7/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
David Bowie’s unreleased 1997 version of the Tin Machine track “Baby Universal” is the latest offering from the Is It Any Wonder? Ep, a six-track Ep highlighting rare tracks Bowie recorded in the Earthling era.
Originally recorded by the Bowie side project Tin Machine and released in 1991 as the penultimate single from Tin Machine II, Bowie and Tin Machine guitarist and long-time collaborator Reeves Gabrels revisited “Baby Universal” in the studio while working on Earthling; the track had reemerged as a live staple during Bowie’s 1996 tour.
“Baby Universal ’97″ was...
Originally recorded by the Bowie side project Tin Machine and released in 1991 as the penultimate single from Tin Machine II, Bowie and Tin Machine guitarist and long-time collaborator Reeves Gabrels revisited “Baby Universal” in the studio while working on Earthling; the track had reemerged as a live staple during Bowie’s 1996 tour.
“Baby Universal ’97″ was...
- 1/31/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
David Bowie’s 1997 reimagining of his Station to Station track “Stay” has arrived, marking the latest offering from the upcoming rarities Ep, Is It Any Wonder?
Per a press release, Bowie conceived “Stay ’97” during the pre-rehearsals for his Earthling tour in Dublin as he, Mark Plati and Reeves Gabrels prepped the backing and sequencer tracks before the rest of the band arrived. Bowie wanted to update several tracks from his back catalogue so they fit alongside his Outside/Earthling songs. This version of “Stay ’97” was eventually recorded at Right Track...
Per a press release, Bowie conceived “Stay ’97” during the pre-rehearsals for his Earthling tour in Dublin as he, Mark Plati and Reeves Gabrels prepped the backing and sequencer tracks before the rest of the band arrived. Bowie wanted to update several tracks from his back catalogue so they fit alongside his Outside/Earthling songs. This version of “Stay ’97” was eventually recorded at Right Track...
- 1/24/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
David Bowie’s “I Can’t Read ’97” has been unveiled. The acoustic rendition will appear on the upcoming Is It Any Wonder? Ep. It follows last week’s release of a previously unreleased version of “The Man Who Sold the World” from the six-song set. The rest of the Ep’s songs will arrive one at a time on a weekly basis through the next month.
Originally appearing on Tin Machine’s 1989 self-titled debut album and written by Bowie and Reeves Gabrels, “I Can’t Read” was re-recorded by Bowie...
Originally appearing on Tin Machine’s 1989 self-titled debut album and written by Bowie and Reeves Gabrels, “I Can’t Read” was re-recorded by Bowie...
- 1/17/2020
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
A previously unreleased version of David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold the World” has arrived, marking the first installment in the rollout for a new six-track Ep, Is It Any Wonder. The next five songs will arrive on a weekly basis, continuing January 17th.
The new version of “The Man Who Sold the World” is taken from the ChangesNowBowie session, which Bowie recorded in November 1996, and which later aired on the BBC January 8th, 1997, to mark the musician’s 50th birthday. Per a statement, the session was mostly acoustic,...
The new version of “The Man Who Sold the World” is taken from the ChangesNowBowie session, which Bowie recorded in November 1996, and which later aired on the BBC January 8th, 1997, to mark the musician’s 50th birthday. Per a statement, the session was mostly acoustic,...
- 1/8/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Since forming more than four decades ago, the Cure’s personal lyrics, dreamlike compositions and gothy image helped them establish a dedicated, cult-like fanbase. Despite these clear contributions to rock — not to mention gold and platinum records on both side of the Atlantic and megahits like “Lovesong” and “The Love Cats” — it’s taken 15 years and one failed bid in 2012 for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to recognize them with an induction.
The institution recognized the artist who’s been at the center of it all from the...
The institution recognized the artist who’s been at the center of it all from the...
- 3/30/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
The Cure are going to enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame early next year, but what exactly is going to happen that night isn’t exactly clear. Every current member of the band is getting in besides guitarist Reeves Gabrels (who joined in 2012 and has yet to play on a proper album), but they’re also bringing in five ex-members. Will Robert Smith allow them all to play with the current lineup for a Cure super jam or will this be a Deep Purple situation where no former...
- 12/18/2018
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Iggy Pop premiered a new version of David Bowie’s cover of “Bang Bang” on his BBC Radio 6 show “Iggy Confidential” Friday.
“Bang Bang” originally debuted on Iggy Pop’s 1981 album Party, and Bowie covered the track on his 1987 record Never Let Me Down. The revamped version can be heard at the 1:38:30 mark of “Iggy Confidential.” After playing the song, Iggy Pop said he “thought it was a really good reading of the lyric.”
The revamped version of Bowie’s “Bang Bang” cover will appear on the...
“Bang Bang” originally debuted on Iggy Pop’s 1981 album Party, and Bowie covered the track on his 1987 record Never Let Me Down. The revamped version can be heard at the 1:38:30 mark of “Iggy Confidential.” After playing the song, Iggy Pop said he “thought it was a really good reading of the lyric.”
The revamped version of Bowie’s “Bang Bang” cover will appear on the...
- 9/29/2018
- by Ilana Kaplan
- Rollingstone.com
David Bowie‘s five-decade career went through so many extreme highs and bizarre lows that pinpointing his single worst album may seem like a difficult task. To the singer himself, though, it was quite easy. “My nadir was Never Let Me Down,” he said in 1995. “It was such an awful album. … I really shouldn’t have even bothered going into the studio to record it. In fact, when I play it, I wonder if I did sometimes.”
The 1987 record, packed with cheesy drum machines and synths that would sound painfully...
The 1987 record, packed with cheesy drum machines and synths that would sound painfully...
- 7/24/2018
- by Kory Grow and Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
The upcoming David Bowie box set Loving the Alien (1983 – 1988) has revealed its newly revamped take on “Zeroes,” a track off the full-album “2018 version” rerecording of the late icon’s 1987 LP Never Let Me Down.
Prior to his January 2016 death, Bowie expressed a desire to rerecord Never Let Me Down, “a bitter disappointment” as he called it, with less-dated production and instrumentation; this version of “Zeroes” strips off the Eighties synths and gated drum sound and fills in the void with newly recorded guitar work while keeping Bowie’s original vocal track intact.
Prior to his January 2016 death, Bowie expressed a desire to rerecord Never Let Me Down, “a bitter disappointment” as he called it, with less-dated production and instrumentation; this version of “Zeroes” strips off the Eighties synths and gated drum sound and fills in the void with newly recorded guitar work while keeping Bowie’s original vocal track intact.
- 7/23/2018
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Parlophone Records announced Wednesday that “David Bowie: Loving the Alien 1983-1988,” the fourth in its series of boxed sets compiling the late artist’s work from 1969, will be released on Oct. 12. The era was Bowie’s most commercially successful period and includes the hit albums “Let’s Dance” and “Tonight.”
The 11 CD/15 LP set follows the formidable collections “Five Years (1969-1973),” “Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976),” and “A New Career in a New Town (1977-1982).”
It also includes a near-complete re-recording of Bowie’s 1987 album “Never Let Me Down,” which he’d often said he wanted to re-do, overseen by producer / engineer Mario McNulty with new instrumentation by longtime Bowie collaborators Reeves Gabrels (guitar), David Torn (guitar), Sterling Campbell (drums), and Tim Lefebvre (bass), as well as string quartet with arrangements by Nico Muhly and a guest cameo by Laurie Anderson on “Shining Star (Makin’ My Love).”
It...
The 11 CD/15 LP set follows the formidable collections “Five Years (1969-1973),” “Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976),” and “A New Career in a New Town (1977-1982).”
It also includes a near-complete re-recording of Bowie’s 1987 album “Never Let Me Down,” which he’d often said he wanted to re-do, overseen by producer / engineer Mario McNulty with new instrumentation by longtime Bowie collaborators Reeves Gabrels (guitar), David Torn (guitar), Sterling Campbell (drums), and Tim Lefebvre (bass), as well as string quartet with arrangements by Nico Muhly and a guest cameo by Laurie Anderson on “Shining Star (Makin’ My Love).”
It...
- 7/19/2018
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
Whether or not you agree with his recent comments in Playboy, there's no denying Gary Oldman is one of the great actors of our time.
Ever since breaking out in 1986's "Sid and Nancy" as the self-destructing Sex Pistol Sid Vicious, Oldman has transformed himself from one role to the next. A true chameleon, the actor changes his voice for every part and is nearly unrecognizable in films like "True Romance" (1993) and "The Contender" (2000). Despite his enormous influence among fellow actors, Oldman shuns the spotlight and has only once been nominated for an Oscar. Oldman turns in yet another stirring performance (despite limited screen time) in this summer's "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes".
From his famous ex-wife to his rejection from a prestigious drama school, here are 27 things you probably don't know about Gary Oldman.
1. Gary Oldman was born on March 21, 1958 in London, England to Kathleen Cheriton and Leonard Bertram Oldman.
Ever since breaking out in 1986's "Sid and Nancy" as the self-destructing Sex Pistol Sid Vicious, Oldman has transformed himself from one role to the next. A true chameleon, the actor changes his voice for every part and is nearly unrecognizable in films like "True Romance" (1993) and "The Contender" (2000). Despite his enormous influence among fellow actors, Oldman shuns the spotlight and has only once been nominated for an Oscar. Oldman turns in yet another stirring performance (despite limited screen time) in this summer's "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes".
From his famous ex-wife to his rejection from a prestigious drama school, here are 27 things you probably don't know about Gary Oldman.
1. Gary Oldman was born on March 21, 1958 in London, England to Kathleen Cheriton and Leonard Bertram Oldman.
- 7/11/2014
- by Jonny Black
- Moviefone
David Bowie has unveiled the video for his latest single 'The Next Day'.
Gary Oldman and his Dark Knight Rises co-star Marion Cotillard appear in the video, which was conceived by Bowie himself.
It was directed by The Runaways filmmaker Floria Sigismundi, who also directed Justin Timberlake's 'Mirrors' and Bowie's previous video 'The Stars (Are Out Tonight)'.
The video takes place in a pub, with Oldman portraying a priest who condemns a Christ-like Bowie.
Oldman and Bowie previously worked together on the 1996 film Basquiat, while both men sang on the 1995 album The Sacred Squall of Now by Reeves Gabrels.
Bowie's album The Next Day has emerged as the early favourite to win this year's Mercury Prize.
Gary Oldman and his Dark Knight Rises co-star Marion Cotillard appear in the video, which was conceived by Bowie himself.
It was directed by The Runaways filmmaker Floria Sigismundi, who also directed Justin Timberlake's 'Mirrors' and Bowie's previous video 'The Stars (Are Out Tonight)'.
The video takes place in a pub, with Oldman portraying a priest who condemns a Christ-like Bowie.
Oldman and Bowie previously worked together on the 1996 film Basquiat, while both men sang on the 1995 album The Sacred Squall of Now by Reeves Gabrels.
Bowie's album The Next Day has emerged as the early favourite to win this year's Mercury Prize.
- 5/8/2013
- Digital Spy
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