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David Bowie: (Spaceboy)
The alien who swapped faces like clothes-elf one year, duke the next. Ziggy, Aladdin, Hallo Spaceboy, Thin White, every persona a glitter bomb. Wrote All the Young Dudes, gave Lou Reed Transformer, dressed Roxy in synths, then vanished. Voice like glass and velvet. Posts multiplying faster than his personas.


David Bowie: "David Bowie Played Baal": Dance This Messer Round Article (1982)
David Bowie’s "David Bowie Played Baal": Dance This Messer Round , a one-page article in New Musical Express, March 27, 1982

David Bowie
Mar 27, 19821 min read


David Bowie: "Brechtfast in Bed" Article: Bowie as Baal (1982)
David Bowie’s "Brechtfast in Bed": Bowie as Baal, a one-page article in New Musical Express, March 6, 1982. The analysis of his past...

David Bowie
Mar 6, 19822 min read


David Bowie: Rock Star David Bowie Take the Title Role Cover Feature (1982)
David Bowie’s Rock Star David Bowie Take the Title Role, a cover and two-page feature plus one-page scrapbook in Radio Times, February...

David Bowie
Mar 2, 19821 min read


David Bowie: "Bowie Has a Baal" Feature (1982)
David Bowie’s "Bowie Has a Baal," a two-page feature in Record Mirror, March 2, 1982.

David Bowie
Mar 2, 19821 min read


David Bowie: Baal Cover (1982)
David Bowie’s Baal, a cover starring in Bertolt Brecht’s Baal on BBC1 in Radio Times, February 27–March 5, 1982.

David Bowie
Feb 27, 19821 min read


David Bowie: "Baal" Single (1982)
David Bowie’s "Baal" backed with "All the Madmen" , was released as a 7-inch vinyl EP single in the UK by RCA Records (catalog number PB...

David Bowie
Feb 26, 19822 min read


David Bowie: Wild Is The Wind Single (1981)
A Station To Station Windstorm David Bowie’s “Wild Is The Wind” was released as a 7-inch, and 12" vinyl single, in the UK on November 13, 1981, on RCA Records (catalogue: BOW 10 / PB 9815). Backed with “Golden Years,” this haunting ballad cover (written by Tiomkin/Washington) and funk-disco gem (Bowie), both arranged/produced by Bowie/Harry Maslin, released to promoted ChangesTwoBowie, it peaked at No. 24 on the UK Singles Chart for 10 weeks. Issued in four-prong push-out cen

David Bowie
Nov 13, 19813 min read


David Bowie: "Young Americans" Album (1981)
David Bowie’s Young Americans was re-released as an LP album in the UK and Germany by RCA Records (catalog number PL 13002) in 1981....

David Bowie
Aug 31, 19811 min read


David Bowie: "Station to Station" Album (1981)
David Bowie’s Station to Station was re-released as a 12-inch vinyl album in the UK by RCA Records (catalog number RCA LP 3013) in...

David Bowie
Aug 31, 19811 min read


David Bowie: "Very Cool, Very Weird" Article (1981)
David Bowie’s "Very Cool, Very Weird," a one-page article in Record Mirror, March 28, 1981.

David Bowie
Mar 28, 19811 min read


David Bowie: "Up The Hill Backwards" Single Advert (1981)
David Bowie’s "Up The Hill Backwards," a one-page advert for the single b/w Crystal Japan (previously unreleased in UK) in New Musical...

David Bowie
Mar 21, 19811 min read


David Bowie: "Up the Hill Backwards" Single (1981)
David Bowie’s "Up the Hill Backwards" backed with "Crystal Japan" , was released as a 7-inch vinyl single in the UK by RCA Records...

David Bowie
Mar 20, 19811 min read


David Bowie: "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)" Single (1981)
David Bowie’s "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)" backed with "Because You're Young" , was released as a 7-inch vinyl single in the UK...

David Bowie
Jan 2, 19811 min read


David Bowie: "Fashion" Single Advert (1980)
David Bowie’s "Fashion Special Ed 12"," a one-page advert in New Musical Express, November 1, 1980.

David Bowie
Nov 1, 19801 min read


David Bowie: The Tracks of My Years - Definitive Biography (1977-78)
Sounds Two Pages (Nov 1, 1980)

David Bowie
Nov 1, 19801 min read


David Bowie: Fashion Single (1980)
A New Wave Dancefloor Anthem David Bowie’s “Fashion” 7-inch vinyl single, was released in the UK on October 31, 1980, on RCA Records (catalogue: BOW 7). Backed with “Scream Like A Baby,” this infectious new wave and funk-infused track, written by Bowie, was the second single from his critically acclaimed album Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps). Produced by Bowie and Tony Visconti, “Fashion” featured Robert Fripp’s distinctive guitar and a danceable rhythm, peaking at No. 5 on

David Bowie
Oct 31, 19803 min read


David Bowie: Scary Monsters Advert (1980)
David Bowie's "Ladies and Gentlemen" Scary Monsters one-page advert in Rolling Stone, October 16, 1980

David Bowie
Oct 15, 19801 min read


David Bowie: Bowie "The Tracks of My Years" (1964-71) Feature (1980)
David Bowie’s "The Tracks of My Years" (1964-71), a four-page feature in Sounds, October 4, 1980.

David Bowie
Oct 3, 19801 min read


David Bowie: "Scary Monsters - Often Copied Never Equalled" Advert (1980)
David Bowie’s "Scary Monsters - Often Copied Never Equalled," a one-page advert in New Musical Express, September 27, 1980

David Bowie
Sep 26, 19801 min read


David Bowie: “Scary Monsters” Album Review (1980)
David Bowie’s Scary Monsters, a one-page review "The Moods of an Artist" in Musicians Only Magazine, September 20, 1980.

David Bowie
Sep 20, 19801 min read
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