Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Few artists veered as wildly from one style to another as David Bowie. In between recording the Philly soul experiment Young Americans and the icy Berlin art rock opus Low, he made […]
On a Friday night at Berlin’s famed Metropol, the two surviving members of David Bowie’s Black American three-man backing rhythm section take the stage. Guitarist Carlos Alomar and bass player George Murray are missing their old percussionist comrade, the late, great Dennis Davis, but are tonight rounded out by a full band. It’s November 7 […]
Frank Ockenfels III first crossed paths with David Bowie by chance. Ockenfels was assigned to photograph Bowie and his band Tin Machine for an early-’90s iteration of Creem magazine. It was the last of four photo sessions the band had endured that day in Los Angeles, and Ockenfels asked them to remove their shirts. Then, […]
Lists like this are set up to fail, and, in line with the inevitable, this one fails too. But we never kidded ourselves, nor intended to kid you, that we could succeed in definitively choosing the 40 greatest, most important, creative, and successful music makers in the last 40 years. Many great artists didn’t make […]
Name Steven John Fucking Kilbey Best known for Idiot savant (perhaps more of the former) behind Australian band The Church. A prolific renaissance bloke, knocking out records, paintings, poems, books, and now even comics. Still haven’t choreographed a ballet, but who knows? Current city Coogee Beach, Sydney, Australia 2034. Really want to be in Bali. Sitting on a deck […]
For one cruel moment it felt like we had David Bowie back. He went silent for nearly a decade after suffering a heart attack during a performance in Prague in 2004, resurfacing in 2013 with The Next Day, a strong collection of songs that felt like a comfortable, but not revelatory, coda to a multi-decade-long […]
Name Steve Jones Best known for Swearing on the Bill Grundy Show [on December 1, 1976]. Current city London. Excited about I’m going to be touring until middle of October—all around Europe and England, then going to South America for a few dates. We end up in the States, in Dallas, and work our way all around the States. My current music collection […]
For months, filmmaker Brett Morgen was lost in his David Bowie obsessions, sidelined by writer’s block. Now he was wandering a train station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, seeking clarity in his quest to create Moonage Daydream, a vibrant, fully immersive and wildly non-traditional documentary about the late groundbreaking recording artist. Decades earlier, Bowie himself had […]
The highly anticipated David Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream will be accompanied by an album of the same name featuring a host of rare and previously unreleased material, as well as new mixed made especially for the film. The first is for “Modern Love,” which accentuates the original version’s piano line and a cappella backing vocals. […]
The man born David Jones adopted the stage name David Bowie in 1966, avoiding confusion with The Monkees’ Davy Jones. But then he just kept on adding more aliases to his roster of identities: Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, Halloween Jack, The Thin White Duke, the list goes on and on. Had he not been rock’s […]