David Bowie
How David Bowie fulfilled my childhood wish for a redhead pop star
My ginger hair made me a target for bullying in 1970s Leeds. Then came my flaming-red knight in shining armour
Dave Simpson
05, Apr, 2021 @9:26 AM
Queen and David Bowie recorded Cream covers in Under Pressure sessions
A new interview with Roger Taylor and Brian May reveals the existence of recordings born from a boozy Swiss jam session
Laura Snapes
11, Mar, 2021 @11:00 AM
From Bowie to Jackie Weaver: girl dresses up to raise funds for charity
Pearl Parkin, eight, from Bath, becomes a different character each day to raise money for Save the Children
Amelia Hill
24, Feb, 2021 @3:29 PM
Photographer Mick Rock: ‘Social media means we won’t see another Lou Reed’
The veteran, who also snapped David Bowie and Iggy Pop, talks of the birth of the ‘real underground’ and why it won’t happen again
Vanessa Thorpe
31, Jan, 2021 @9:00 AM
Stardust review – David Bowie biopic has no sparkle
This clumsy fictionalised account of Bowie’s formative first US tour is as pedestrian as its subject was remarkable
Simran Hans
17, Jan, 2021 @11:00 AM
Stardust review – David Bowie biopic is an odd-couple oddity
Bowie’s 1971 trip to the US – the inspiration for his Ziggy Stardust persona – is reimagined as a comedy road trip with his hopelessly uncool publicist
Peter Bradshaw
14, Jan, 2021 @1:00 PM
A Bowie biopic with no Bowie songs? Stardust isn't the first to try
Many have attempted to bring Ziggy’s story to the screen. But there are ways of working around copyright restrictions
Steve Rose
11, Jan, 2021 @9:00 AM
A Bowie Celebration review – a starry tribute concert for a mind-blowing talent
Five years on from David Bowie’s death, bandmate Mike Garson leads an epic lineup, from Billy Corgan to Adam Lambert, in three hours of livestreamed sound and vision
Dave Simpson
10, Jan, 2021 @2:53 PM
Human, alien, other: Why we’re all still in love with David Bowie
Five years after his death, the superstar famed for his restless reinvention continues to inspire and fascinate fans
Kitty Empire
10, Jan, 2021 @10:45 AM
'His life is a rebuke to cynicism': what five years without David Bowie has taught us
In his song Five Years, Bowie imagined a dying Earth. Five years on from his death, it seems to have come true – yet he continues to uplift us
Lynsey Hanley
08, Jan, 2021 @11:00 AM
'David was terrified': the inside story of how Bowie and Lennon met
A new BBC interview with producer Tony Visconti retells the awkward encounter that led to the creation of David Bowie and John Lennon’s US No 1 Fame
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
08, Jan, 2021 @8:00 AM
David Bowie's Lazarus musical returns five years after his death
As the stage sequel to The Man Who Fell to Earth is streamed, theatre producer Robert Fox remembers his friend’s creative genius and generosity
Interview by Chris Wiegand
05, Jan, 2021 @9:58 AM
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