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The Latest Breaking News from David Bowie

Sinead O’Connor: ITV, BBC, and Channel 5 are not planning to air tributes to late singer

‘The simple explanation is that she was not taken seriously,’ said a former Channel 4 commissioner

The Independent UK

Artificial intelligence is powering politics – but it could also reboot democracy

Generative AI can involve citizens directly in decision-making, but not while developers’ incentives are only financial, says Polly Curtis, chief executive of Demos

The Guardian - UK

“Mick came in with his Les Paul, plugged in to my amp and fiddled with the controls. All of a sudden there it was, the full Ziggy Stardust tone”: The post-Bowie career of Mick Ronson, rock ’n’ roll’s most quietly spoken guitar hero

Sure, he made a massive imprint on David Bowie’s classic early ’70s albums. But Mick Ronson also worked with Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp, Elton John, Roger McGuinn, Morrissey, Ian Hunter and many others

Guitar World

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Graham Clark obituary

Tenor who loved exploring dramatic possibilities in Wagner with imaginative directors at Bayreuth and Covent Garden

The Guardian - UK

Five iconic Mick Jagger looks that prove his inimitable style

Mr Fish! Ossie Clark! Tommy Nutter! Joe Bromley goes inside the frontman’s seminal wardrobe

Evening Standard

Mick Jagger: celebrating the frontman who changed everything

In the end, Jagger remains world famous because of the music. He’s still making and performing it, and he’s still exceptionally good at it

Evening Standard

Mick Jagger: why the Rolling Stones front man was an unlikely queer icon

Whatever his sexual preferences, there’s little doubt that the serpent-hipped singer paved the way for the gender fluidity movement

Evening Standard

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"There was something about that picture of Marilyn that resonated with how I feel when I’m trying to get something right on the bass": Why Gail Ann Dorsey named her bass after Marilyn Monroe

The story behind the Bowie bassist’s iconic Music Man StingRay

Guitar World

How David Bowie, long thought ambivalent to country music, became a writer on a Chris Young song

Country star Chris Young’s latest single, “Young Love & Saturday Nights,” is a vivid love letter to summertime weekends, old trucks, and dive bar bands

The Independent UK

‘On reflection, it’s very uncool’: readers’ scrapbooks of pop fandom

With the Wham! documentary showcasing Andrew Ridgeley’s mum’s scrapbooks of their career, readers share their own shrines to Roxy Music, Metallica, David Bowie and more

The Guardian - UK

How the CIA inspired Firestarter, why Axl Rose hates JD Salinger, David Bowie’s Orwell musical and why Jimmy Savile was the first ever club DJ: The books and stories that influenced classic songs

How books by Hemingway, Stephen King, the Marquis De Sade etc influenced Metallica, Nirvana, Iron Maiden, Kate Bush, The Prodigy, The Jam, David Bowie and more

Metal Hammer

“The minute I met him, I thought he was a special guy”: Tony Visconti looks back on working with David Bowie

Producer Tony Visconti was as close as David Bowie had to a constant artistic companion – here he looks back on their creative relationship

Louder

Blur: The Ballad of Darren review – mature melancholia spiked with adventure

Comparing it to a surprise baby, late-life Blur’s ninth album finds them on eloquent, emotional form, casting a wistful eye over past glories while pushing forward musically

The Guardian - UK

“Ziggy Stardust was the first song I ever performed”: Perry Farrell on his pre-fame days as a David Bowie impersonator

The Jane’s Addiction went on to become friends with Bowie, despite the fact he annoyed him by accidentally giving away his contact details. Twice.

Louder

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Evening Standard

The Brits with their own Barbies, from JK Rowling to Elton John

Barbie has had many famous incarnations, both men and women

Louder

Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman Gentle Giant, Strawbs and more on new Tony Visconti box set

The work of famed producer Tony Visconti celebrated in new 4 disc or 8 LP box set, Produced By Tony Visconti, out in October

MusicRadar

"I wasn't likely to upstage Brian or Freddie": Queen's John Deacon - a tribute to an elusive bass giant

Brian May: "He won't talk to me, so why the f**k would he talk to you?"

Evening Standard

From AM to Yeezus: Classic albums celebrating their tenth birthday this year

Arctic Monkeys, Kanye West, Lorde, Haim, David Bowie and others released widely-celebrated albums in 2013

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The music of Greta Gerwig’s films, from Lady Bird to Barbie

Here’s a look back at some of her most notable musical moments ahead of Barbie-fever well and truly landing

Guitar World

“You would make Jimi proud if he heard that solo”: Greg Sover and Jimi Hendrix bassist Billy Cox cover Hendrix’s deep cut, Remember

The Philadelphian guitarist and singer steps up to fill some of the biggest shoes in guitar history – with David Bowie’s amp along for the ride

Evening Standard

Daphne Guinness: ‘I’ve always been a misfit. I guess I’m the last surrealist’

Daphne Guinness spent childhood summers at Salvador Dali’s house, was mentored by David Bowie and was at the centre of London fashion’s avant-garde heyday. But as Will Hosie discovers, her music career is her true calling

Irish Mirror

'I fear my mother was killed by serial killer' - Antoinette Smith's daughter speaks out

EXCLUSIVE: Today is the 36th anniversary of the disappearance of Antoinette Smith, who vanished in Dublin city in the early hours of the morning after attending a David Bowie concert in Slane in 1987.

The Guardian - UK

A celebration of the Queen as she celebrated her 50th birthday, as seen in 1976

Journalist Janet Street-Porter brings her unique perspective to recording her Majesty at an important milestone

Wales Online

Hollywood Vampires in Swansea review: Johnny Depp and friends are the weirdest bar band in town

The Hollywood megastar's supergroup is a weird and riotous celebration of 'dead, drunk friends'

Louder

“He gave people permission to be themselves”: 10 of the best David Bowie songs, picked by Bowie keyboard player Mike Garson

A journey through Bowie’s career with Mike Garson, the man who knew him better than most

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