Di Leva on tour again with acclaimed Bowie tribute

Swedish artist Thomas Di Leva is touring Sweden again with Changes – his tribute show to David Bowie. 
The Radio Dupree staff has seen the show this spring and also in 2019. If you get the chance we can really recommend it. The band is great!
Above video was released in 2019.

https://radiodupree.blogspot.com/2019/03/di-leva-plays-bowie-pin-ups-changed-my.html

New Bowie set: Hunky Dory demos – with Scary Monsters clues

The Divine Symmetry 4 CD set celebrates the twelve months running up to the release of the album Hunky Dory in December 1971 via home demos, BBC radio sessions and live and studio recordings.
Already halfway through the first track, Tired Of My Life, Bowie surprises. It turns out that this is the prototype to It's No Game that was released on the Scary Monsters album in 1980. (At around 17:00 in the YouTube clip above.)
And the track King Of The City is obviously an early version of Ashes To Ashes from the aforementioned album.
https://www.davidbowie.com/blog/2022/9/28/divine-symmetry-box-set-details

October release: Bowie's "Heroes" 45th anniversary vinyl + Live in Berlin 1978

The release of the "Heroes" 45th anniversary vinyl is nice but more interesting is the digital release of the rare Live in Berlin (1978) mini album.
Live in Berlin was made available exclusively at the "David Bowie Is..." exhibition in New York. In October it will be released digitally for the first time. The music was recorded at the Deutschlandhalle in West Berlin on 16th May 1978.

Live in Berlin (1978) track list:
1. “Heroes”
2. Be My Wife
3. Blackout
4. Sense Of Doubt
5. Breaking Glass
6. Fame
7. Alabama Song
8. Rebel Rebel

https://www.davidbowie.com/blog/2022/7/29/heroes-anniversary-vinyl-and-live-78-digital

Here's the official trailer for the David Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream

Here's a movie we think is worth catching in September! We'll just quote the text accompanying the trailer:

From Oscar-nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen, director of Cobain: Montage of Heck, and featuring never-before-seen concert footage, MOONAGE DAYDREAM is an immersive cinematic experience; an audio-visual space odyssey that not only illuminates the enigmatic legacy of David Bowie but also serves as a guide to living a fulfilling and meaningful life in the 21st Century.

MOONAGE DAYDREAM is not a documentary. It is a genre-defying cinematic experience based on one of the most iconic and global rock stars of all time, destined to be one of the defining cultural moments of the year

The film has the full support of Bowie’s estate and features many of his greatest tracks, as well as previously unseen concert footage.

Bowie's Karma Man from the unreleased Toy album out now

 

Here is Karma Man, the second digital single from the legendary unreleased album Toy!
The song was originally recorded way early in David Bowie's career, in 1967, but wasn't released until 1970 when it appeared on a Bowie compilation album.

Around 2000 Bowie recorded a new version for the album Toy, but the album was shelved after a dispute between Bowie and his record company.
However this brilliant version of Karma Man has now been released digitally. Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/pSycYtnZcbc

Toy will be released on January 7, 2022, in three-CD and six 10″ vinyl versions.
Before that (on November 26, 2021), Toy will be released as a part of the archival box set Brilliant Adventure (1992-2001).

Here is the first single from Toy:
https://youtu.be/-fC-FxTP_DA

Bowie recordings from 1970 to be released on 2 CD set

The album The Width of a Circle features 21 tracks: "non-album singles, a BBC In Concert session, music for a TV play and further Visconti remixes wrapping up David’s recordings from 1970 and revealing the first sonic steps toward Hunky Dory."

The David Bowie 2 CD set will be released on Parlophone on May 28, 2021.

https://www.davidbowie.com/blog/2021/4/13/the-width-of-a-circle-due-next-month

One of the tracks is already available here. A 2020 mix of Holy Holy:
https://open.spotify.com/track/2vrxKWXL6tPuUwfROlFhAW?si=b0ad0c2f89b64fa5

Di Leva plays Bowie: Pin Ups changed my life

David Bowie was the artist that inspired the young Thomas Di Leva (now longtime Swedish musician) to get into music. On March 22 Radio Dupree attended one of the shows of Di Leva's Changes tour.

– When I was a boy I saw a record with a remarkable cover in a store. It jumped out and into my heart. It was Pin Ups. I convinced my mom to buy it and it made me pick up the guitar and dare to sing, and so I became an artist, said Di Leva in a radio interview some week ago.

Last year Di Leva performed his 100 percent Bowie programme in a venue in Stockholm. This year he took the show outside the Swedish capital.

It was a surprisingly good show.
Great band and performance.
They opened up with Ziggy Stardust. Powerful, but the lead and backing vocals were a bit out of synch. But from that point the band worked like a well synchronized machine.
Highlights came half an hour into the show with Ashes to Ashes, Fame, Fashion and Let's Dance.

//S.H.

Coming soon: Bowie at Glastonbury 2000

David Bowie's concert at Glastonbury 2000 will be released on CD, DVD and vinyl LP.
37 minutes of the show have been broadcast on TV, but otherwise this is a premiere release.

Set list:
 1. Introduction (Greensleeves)
 2. Wild Is the Wind
 3. China Girl
 4. Changes
 5. Stay
 6. Life On Mars?
 7. Absolute Beginners
 8. Ashes to Ashes
 9. Rebel Rebel
 10. Little Wonder
 11. Golden Years
 12. Fame
 13. All the Young Dudes
 14. The Man Who Sold the World
 15. Station to Station
 16. Starman
 17. Hallo Spaceboy
 18. Under Pressure
 19. Ziggy Stardust
 20. "Heroes"
 21. Let's Dance
 22. I'm Afraid of Americans

Bowie live at Earl's Court 1978

A new David Bowie album was released recently: Welcome To The Blackout. 
It had a limited vinyl release in April for Record Store Day. On June 29 it was more widely released (CD + download and streaming.

Here is a nice video to celebrate the release:
https://vimeo.com/277634151

Queen and David Bowie recorded unreleased music together

1981 David Bowie and Queen had a big hit with Under Pressure. In an article in The Guardian this week Peter Hince, who was head of Queen's road crew, says he was present in the studio when they recorded the hit song but also more music that hasn't been released so far. Hince describes the music as proper full-length rock 'n roll tracks. Raw but good.

The article go on quoting Neil Cossar, a music historian currently writing a book on Bowie, saying that Bowie and Queen were just jamming in the studio playing covers and some original songs. But everything was recorded.

King Crimson touring North America with FOUR drummers

Crimson in Stockholm 2016.

King Crimson have announced their North American tour 2017, and if three drummers were not enough (as for the 2016 European tour)...they have added even one more.
The touring lineup, according to consequenceofsound.net, looks like this:
Robert Fripp (guitar, keyboards) and longtime associates Tony Levin (bass, Chapman Stick) and Mel Collins (saxophone) alongside singer/guitarist Jakko Jakszyk and four drummers, Bill Rieflin, Gavin Harrison, Pat Mastelotto and Jeremy Stacey. Stacey and Rieflin will also double as keyboardists. Referring to this tour configuration as the “Double Quartet Formation,” Fripp says King Crimson is “likely to be making a lot more noise than before.”

To coincide with the tour, King Crimson is releasing an EP featuring their version of David Bowie’s “Heroes” recorded in Berlin during the band’s 2016 European tour. Fripp, of course, played on Bowie’s original track.
Fripp explains that the EP, which will be released on June 2nd, is as a celebration, a remembrancing and an homage to Bowie.

Check for North American tour dates here.

Giant bolt marks Bowie memorial in Brixton

There is a crowd funding project going on with the aim to raise a 9 meter steel bolt a' la Aladdin Sane near David Bowie's birthplace in Brixton, UK.

Check pictures here:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/feb/22/campaign-david-bowie-memorial-brixton

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-39044933

5 Grammy Awards for Bowie's Blackstar

David Bowie's Blackstar album won all five nominations:
Best Rock Performance
Best Rock Song
Best Alternative Music Album
Best Recording Package
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

Frank Zappa's 200 Motels - The Suites was nominated for Best Classical Compendium but did not get the award, unfortunately.

https://www.grammy.com/nominees

Royal Mail issuing Bowie stamps

Royal Mail in the UK has announced it will issue a set of 10 Special Stamps as a tribute to David Bowie in March.

http://www.davidbowie.com/news/royal-mail-honour-bowie-10-special-stamps-56731

Bowie's last songs on upcoming cast album

The last three songs that Bowie recorded will be released on the cast album from the Bowie musical Lazarus. 
The songs:“No Plan,” “Killing A Little Time,” “When I Met You”.
Release date for the 2 CD/3 LP set: October 21.

Lazarus, the musical, will be premiered at King Cross Theatre, London, on November 8.

http://www.davidbowie.com/news/final-bowie-recordings-lazarus-cast-album-michael-c-hall-perform-2016-mercury-prize-56236

Track list for the Lazarus cast album:

CD 1:
1.    Hello Mary Lou (Goodbye Heart) – Ricky Nelson
2.    Lazarus – Michael C. Hall & Original New York Cast of Lazarus
3.    It's No Game – Michael C. Hall, Lynn Craig & Original New York Cast of Lazarus
4.    This Is Not America – Sophia Anne Caruso & Original New York Cast of Lazarus
5.    The Man Who Sold The World – Charlie Pollack
6.    No Plan – Sophia Anne Caruso
7.    Love Is Lost – Michael Esper & Original New York Cast of Lazarus
8.    Changes – Cristin Milioti & Original New York Cast of Lazarus
9.    Where Are We Now? – Michael C. Hall & Original New York Cast of Lazarus
10.   Absolute Beginners – Michael C. Hall, Cristin Milioti, Michael Esper, Sophia Anne Caruso, Krystina Alabado & Original New York Cast of Lazarus
11.   Dirty Boys – Michael Esper
12.   Killing A Little Time – Michael C. Hall
13.   Life On Mars? – Sophia Anne Caruso
14.   All The Young Dudes – Nicholas Christopher, Lynn Craig, Michael Esper, Sophia Anne Caruso & Original New York Cast of Lazarus
15.   Sound And Vision – David Bowie
16.   Always Crashing In The Same Car – Cristin Milioti
17.   Valentine's Day – Michael Esper & Original New York Cast of Lazarus
18.   When I Met You – Michael C. Hall & Krystina Alabado
19.   "Heroes" – Michael C. Hall, Sophia Anne Caruso & Original New York Cast of Lazarus

CD 2:
1.    Lazarus – David Bowie
2.    No Plan – David Bowie
3.    Killing A Little Time – David Bowie
4.    When I Met You – David Bowie

New exhibit of unseen early photographs of David Bowie

Photo: Gerald Fearnly

Snap Galleries in London has just announced that never before published photographs of David Bowie taken in the late 1960's will be exhibited in a couple of weeks.

The photographer is Gerald Fearnly who shot the cover photo for the 1967 self titled David Bowie album.

Fifteen of these unseen photographs will be shown in the gallery from August 15 to September 24, 2016. And there are of course prints for sale.

More on the photographs here:

http://www.snapgalleries.com/exhibitions/bowie-photographs-by-gerald-fearnley/

Bowie may have planned more albums

The sales of David Bowie music went trough the roof after the artist's death. But the Blackstar album may not be his last. Newsweek has the story.

Bowie produced a Zappa cover in 1973

We knew there had to be a connection between two of the greatest music geniuses, the recently deceased David Bowie and Frank Zappa.
Here is a song from an obscure album recorded in 1973. Artist: Ava Cherry. Producer: David Bowie. Song: How Could I Be Such A Fool (Zappa).

Musicians: David Bowie, Mike Garson (keyboards), Herbie Flowers (bass), Aynsley Dunbar (drums). 

Nice to know that there were some other connection except the fight between Bowie and Zappa about guitarist Adrian Belew.

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/david-bowie-frank-zappa-adrian-belew/

Ava Cherry's album was not finished but got released more than 20 years later.
The album The Astronettes Sessions also includes a prototype version of Scream Like A Baby (I Am A Laser), that would in its new form end up on Scary Monsters in 1980. Worth checking out!

Radio Dupree lists Bowie's best music

Bowie is dead. Long live Bowie!

The master is dead. Radio Dupree did an attempt to list Bowie's best music, as we see it.

Bowie's best songs:
1. Queen Bitch
2. Fashion
3. Word on a Wing
4. Move On
5. Ashes to Ashes

Bowie's best albums:
1. Station to Station
2. Hunky Dory
3. Lodger
4. At the Beeb
5. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust...

Unknown Bowie songs you should check out:

1. Growin' Up (Springsteen cover. Bonus track on some editions of Pin Ups)
2. Holy Holy (Bonus track on some editions of The Man Who Sold the World and The Rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust...)
3. Love you till Tuesday (a track from David's debut album released 1967)
4. Memory of a Free Festival (single version, bonus track on some editions of the Space Oddity album)
5. Baal's Hymn (from the EP Baal)

Music legend David Bowie dies

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35278872