David Bowie
Rock sideman Earl Slick: ‘Bowie had gone levels into insanity’
He played through astounding levels of drug-taking on Bowie’s Station to Station, and with Yoko Ono weeks after Lennon’s death. The guitarist explains why he’s great at backing legends – and terrible at selling timeshares
Alexis Petridis
02, Jul, 2021 @7:30 AM
Peter Zinovieff, British composer and synth pioneer, dies aged 88
The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Kraftwerk all used Zinovieff’s EMS synthesisers
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
26, Jun, 2021 @11:13 AM
The Guardian view on the Wigmore Hall: happy 120th birthday | Editorial
Editorial: It may seem staid – to some. But the music played at the Wigmore Hall, and at vital venues like it, stirs the soul
Editorial
04, Jun, 2021 @5:25 PM
From Beyoncé to David Bowie: 10 of the best Glastonbury sets ever
Ahead of a livestreamed version of the festival, here are some of the biggest and best performances from years gone by
Dorian Lynskey
21, May, 2021 @8:00 AM
From Eno to Dua Lipa, why musicians are fascinated by outer space
Artists have long been seduced by galactic themes. Now Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes is releasing a celestial epic
Edward Helmore
24, Apr, 2021 @4:00 PM
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
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