David Bowie

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

'All that mattered was survival': the songs that got us through 2020
Mariah with butterflies, Bronski Beat in the Peak District, Snoop Dogg on a food delivery ad … our writers reveal the tracks that made 2020 bearable
Guardian music
31, Dec, 2020 @10:00 AM

Songs for Europe: what music did Bowie and Iggy listen to in 1970s Berlin?
A new compilation, named after one of Bowie’s local haunts Cafe Exil, offers a speculative guide to the pair’s soundtrack favourites
Peter Watts
11, Dec, 2020 @1:00 PM

Royal Mint sends David Bowie coin into space and back
Commemorative coin ascended to 35,656 metres and will be offered as competition prize
Caroline Davies
07, Dec, 2020 @5:21 PM

Diane Lane's teenage obsessions: 'I'm still scarred by A Clockwork Orange'
With the release of her new film Let Him Go, the actor recalls the sex and violence of 70s movies, doing the hustle to Troglodyte and falling in love with John Travolta’s cool desperation
As told to Rich Pelley
04, Dec, 2020 @10:00 AM
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