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"It certainly rubbed some people up the wrong way": The story of the sexually ambiguous anthem that got Placebo a tour with David Bowie

A three-minute rush of hedonism, Placebo’s alt-rock anthem raised two fingers to Britpop and got them on Top Of The Pops – so why do they feel so ambivalent about it?

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“I was just getting my sound when David shouted: ‘OK, done!’ I was like: ‘But I haven’t actually started yet!’”: The future Motörhead guitarist who recorded a last-minute guitar solo for David Bowie

Two worlds collided for a British TV show

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Janelle Monáe 'travelled back in time' to see David Bowie live

Janelle Monáe has claimed she once experienced time travel as she visited the 1970s to see David Bowie performing live.

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MTV Co-Founder Recalls A Wild Visit With David Bowie And Paul McCartney In A Sauna In Switzerland, And My FOMO Is Too Real

I Want My MTV!!

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Norman Cook planned to become a firefighter before Fatboy Slim success

Norman Cook was going to quit the music business at the start of the '90s before reinventing himself as big beats DJ Fatboy Slim and achieving huge chart success.

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The Uncool by Cameron Crowe review – inside rock’s wildest decade

From shadowing a cocaine-addled David Bowie to winning over Joni Mitchell, deliciously readable tales by the director of Almost Famous

The Guardian - UK

Cameron Crowe: ‘I think Bowie remembered it all. He just didn’t want to remember it with me’

INTERVIEW: The Oscar-winning filmmaker behind ‘Almost Famous’ and ‘Jerry Maguire’ has written a memoir about his extraordinary life on the road as a 15-year-old journalist for Rolling Stone magazine. He speaks to Adam White about early success, his surprising love of ‘We Bought a Zoo’, and his bittersweet reunion with…

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Makeup artist Mary Greenwell was ‘flattered’ to work with Margaret Thatcher

She also told the BBC’s Desert Island Discs about her work with David Bowie and Diana, Princess of Wales.

Evening Standard

‘Risky is the best way to be’: Tim Curry on sexuality, surviving a stroke – and 50 years of stardom

From Rocky Horror to the Muppets, Curry’s extraordinary career made him world-famous. Then, a stroke left him paralysed. The actor talks about his cocaine years, his friendship with David Bowie – and the moment his mother came at him with a knife

The Guardian - UK

"Lady Gaga passes this bottle of Jameson to me, and I just tip the whole bottle over my face. That was a formative moment." Wargasm's Milkie Way makes us a playlist and takes us inside her world of Sabbath, Gaga, Bowie and more

What links Black Sabbath, Tina Turner, The Cramps, Lady Gaga and David Bowie? The excellent music taste of one Milkie Way

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“Before we knew it we had a sound no one had ever heard before”: How David Bowie created one of the greatest songs of all time via a range of innovative recording techniques

One of Bowie’s highest watermarks, Heroes continues to sound utterly timeless due to its layered production and passionate vocal performance

MusicRadar

Kate Bush and artists harness power of Running Up That Hill for War Child appeal

Musician invites 52 UK visual artists to create works based on song lyric to raise money for children affected by war

The Guardian - UK

“Even if you learn to play bass from YouTube videos, you’re still not self-taught. Autodidactic learning is awesome, but everyone needs a teacher”: How Esperanza Spalding created the most complex music of her career under the guidance of an alter ego

With help from producer Tony Visconti, one of the brightest stars of 21st century bass found a brand-new source of inspiration

Guitar World

“I brought the synth into the studio with Harry, flicked through the presets and there’s one called Harpoon Dream. I took the delay off and we were like… ‘yeah!’: Kid Harpoon on the Moog One preset that made Harry Styles' As It Was

We sit down with Kid Harpoon to talk making hits and studio tricks with the Grammy-winning co-creator that everyone wants on their team

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“If you see him live, it’s insane! He’s just ripping his heart out in front of you”: King Crimson’s Jakko Jakszyk on his favourite prog vocalist – also loved by David Bowie, Johnny Rotten and the guy who did The Sooty Show

Known for a Marmite voice, personal songwriting and a powerful sense of drama, his influence runs deeper than most people realise

Woman & Home

Anne Hathaway gives 90s band t-shirts the fashion seal of approval

Anne Hathaway blended cool casual with an elegantly smart twist at Balenciaga's Paris Fashion Week show, by adding opera gloves to her band tee and suit trousers ensemble

Louder

Glenn Hughes has played with Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Black Country Communion and more - but he should never have left his first band

Glenn Hughes has spent more than 50 years in rock - and he's ready to talk about it all

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“I spotted them and I thought they were a really terrific band.” How David Bowie took one of the 90s' big breakout rock bands under his wing - right before they blew up

The rock'n'roll icon turned mentor for the trio the 90s and insisted they record a song together

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“A testament to their expansive and much-loved music catalogue that they continue to mean so much to UK audiences to this very day”: Which 20th-century band are the top ‘rock’ act in 21st-century Britain?

According to PPL, anyway

Bowie's legendary Hi-Fi system returns as an exceptionally limited edition

The Brionvega Radiofonografo 60th Anniversary Edition isn't just a Hi-Fi, it's a work of art

The Guardian - UK

Finn Wolfhard’s honest playlist: ‘I don’t know if I want to hear Sweet Child O’ Mine any more’

The musician and actor gives Bowie some welly at karaoke and is a lapsed G’n’R superfan. But which UK stadium indie-popsters created the first album he ever bought?

Guitar World

“I was attracted to melodic bass players like Carol Kaye. Why should a rock bassist play dumb notes all the time?” How Tony Visconti rethought rock bass for David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold the World

The legendary producer revisits his ground-shaking bass work on Bowie’s 1970 breakthrough album

Evening Standard

The Devonshire: new private dining rooms added to London's most famous pub

The grand Soho pub could now sell even more than 20,000 pints of Guinness a week

MusicRadar

“I didn’t think that Oasis were very good songwriters. This obsession with Britishness just didn’t really compute with us”: Placebo on drugs, Bowie and standing out from Britpop ‘like a sore thumb’

Band have a new documentary coming on

Louder

New film exploring David Bowie’s Berlin years announced

The show, directed by regular Bowie filmmaker Francis Whatley, will mark 50 years since the icon’s arrival in the German capital

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