David Bowie – The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (Blu-Ray Audio) (Parlophone)
David Bowie released Ziggy Stardust 52 years ago and changed rock & roll forever. This 50th Anniversary Blu-Ray Edition only adds to the legend.
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Ian Hunter on Defiance Part 2 and the State Of Rock & Roll (Interview)
Ian Hunter, former Mott The Hoople front man, has just released a new album titled Defiance Part2: Fiction. It is a star-studded affair featuring members of Queen, Def Leppard, Cheap Trick, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, The Black Crowes and friends like Johnny Depp, Lucinda Williams, Billy Bob Thornton and final contributions from Jeff Beck […]
And the Winner of the David Bowie Box Set is…
Simon Sean Coffey has won the David Bowie Box Set, Clareville Grove Demos. This gorgeous box-set with three 7″ vinyl singles of Bowie’s 1969 demos, includes Space Oddity. Congratulations Simon! We asked people to tell us their favourite Bowie personae. The results: Ziggy Stardust The Thin White Duke Aladdin Sane Goblin King Halloween Jack Himself […]
Win a copy of the Clareville Grove Demos – a David Bowie Box Set
#WIN! Just when we thought we couldn’t get much cooler, here’s a David Bowie Box Set to knock every collector’s socks into next week! It’s the Clareville Grove Demos. A gorgeous box-set with three 7″ vinyl singles of Bowie’s 1969 demos, including Space Oddity. To enter – go to our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/13thfloor.co.nz. Then 1) […]
Album Review: David Bowie – Clareville Grove Demos (Parlophone)
This collection of six songs recorded as demos in early 1969 finds the young David Bowie still searching for a musical voice that will connect with an audience. That audience was just a few months away.
Interview: Mike Garson – David Bowie’s Pianist Speaks to The 13th Floor: “It could have gone very sour!”
David Bowie is no longer with us, but many of the incredible musicians who played with him are.
David Bowie Alumni Announce 2 NZ Concerts
To mark 50 years since David Bowie’s Space Oddity was unleashed on the world, The Thin White Duke’s band today announces two New Zealand dates for its “A BOWIE CELEBRATION: THE DAVID BOWIE ALUMNI TOUR”.
Are We Killing Our Rock Stars?
This past Saturday marked the 59th anniversary of “the day the music died.” It was on February 3rd, 1959 that Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and JP Richardson (The Big Bopper) died when their small plane crashed near Mason City, Iowa. Now, touring musicians face a different, just as fatal, reality.
Watch The New David Bowie Video!
On what would have been David Bowie’s 70th birthday, the video for Bowie’s No Plan was posted. Directed by Tom Hingston, the video is for one of the last three songs Bowie recorded. Those three songs, No Plan, Killing A Little Time and When I Met You (all from the Lazarus soundtrack) along with the […]
Warner Bros To Release 7″ Picture Disc of Bowie’s Sound & Vision
This just in from Warner Bros Records: February 10th 2017 sees the release of the latest special limited DAVID BOWIE 7″ picture disc, the 40th-anniversary edition of SOUND AND VISION.