David Bowie : Naked and Wired

SHE GAVE THEM LIFE,

SHE GAVE THEM ALL

THEY DRAINED HER 

VERY SOUL DRY...DRY

David Bowie : Starchild

Here is a Compilation

That I Made Mostly

From The

ZIGGY STARDUST

Era 

Of

 David Bowie

TRACKLIST

CD 1

Space Oddity

Starman

Ziggy Stardust

Lady Stardust

Five Years

Soul Love

Moonage Daydream

Friday On My Mind

Here Comes The Night

It Ain't Easy

Suffragette City

Velvet Goldmine

Let Me Sleep Beside You

Diamond Dogs

Changes

Oh! You Pretty Things

The Man Who Sold The World

Rock 'n' Roll Suicide

Across The Universe

Ziggy Stardust

 [Acoustic]

Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere

CD 2

Rebel Rebel

Star

Life On Mars?

Holy Holy

The Jean Genie

Where Have All The Good Times Gone?

Fame 

(w/John Lennon)

Golden Years

Heroes

Ashes To Ashes

Let's Spend The Night Together

Young Americans

Growin' Up

All The Young Dudes

Sorrow

God Only Knows

China Girl

Blue Jean

Modern Love

Let's Dance

Dancing In The Street

 (w/Mick Jagger)

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David Bowie : Station To Station (1976 Mix/ Harry Maslin 2010 Mix)

LAST NIGHT 

THEY LOVED YOU

OPENING DOORS

AND PULLING 

SOME STRINGS, ANGEL

David Bowie : Low (1991 Edition)

SOMETIMES YOU GET

 SO LONELY

SOMETIMES YOU GET

 NOWHERE

David Bowie : Nothing Has Changed (The Very Best of Bowie) (3 CD Version)

David Robert Jones 

( January 8th 1947 –  January 10th 2016)

 known as 

David Bowie, 

was an 

English singer,

 songwriter and actor. 

Regarded as among 

the most influential

 musicians of

 The 20th Century,

 Bowie received

 particular acclaim

 for his work in the 1970s. 

His career was marked by

 reinvention and visual presentation, 

and his music and stagecraft 

have had a 

great impact on 

popular music.

Bowie studied art,

 music and design 

before embarking 

on a music career

 in 1962. 

He released a string of 

unsuccessful singles 

with local bands 

and a 

self-titled solo album 

(1967) 

before achieving his

 first top-five entry 

on the UK singles chart 

with 

"Space Oddity" 

(1969). 

After a period of 

experimentation,

 he re-emerged

 in 1972 

during the 

glam rock era 

with the alter ego 

Ziggy Stardust. 

The single 

"Starman" 

and its album 

The Rise and Fall of 

Ziggy Stardust

 and the 

Spiders from Mars 

(1972) 

won him 

widespread popularity.

 In 1975, 

Bowie's style shifted towards 

a sound he characterised as

 "plastic soul",

 initially alienating 

many of his

 UK fans

 but garnering his

 first major US

 crossover success

 with the number-one single

 "Fame" 

(w/John Lennon) 

and the album

 Young Americans

 (1975).

 In 1976, 

Bowie starred in

 the cult film

 The Man Who Fell to Earth 

and released 

Station to Station. 

In 1977,

 he again changed direction

 with the

 electronic-inflected album

 Low,

 the first of three 

collaborations with 

Brian Eno 

that came to be known as

 the Berlin Trilogy.

 "Heroes" 

(1977)

 and

 Lodger

 (1979) 

followed; 

each album

 reached the

 UK top-five 

and received 

critical praise.

After uneven 

commercial success

 in the late 1970s, 

Bowie had three 

number-one hits:

 the 1980 single 

"Ashes to Ashes",

 its album 

Scary Monsters

 (and Super Creeps) 

and 

"Under Pressure"

 a 1981 collaboration

 with Queen

 He achieved his

 greatest commercial success

 in the 1980s

 with 

Let's Dance

 (1983).

 Between

 1988 and 1992, 

he fronted the

 hard rock band

 Tin Machine.

 Throughout the 

1990s and 2000s,

 Bowie continued to

 experiment with

 musical styles,

 including industrial 

and jungle. 

He also continued acting;

 his films included 

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

 (1983), 

Labyrinth

 (1986), 

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 

(1992), 

Basquiat

 (1996), 

and 

The Prestige 

(2006). 

He retired from touring

 in 2004

 and his last

 live performance

 was at a 

charity event

 in 2006. 

He returned from a

 decade-long 

recording hiatus

 in 2013

 with

 The Next Day. 

His death in 2016 

came two days after

 the release

 of his final 

studio album, 

Blackstar.

David Bowie : Blackstar

Blackstar

 (stylised as ★)

 is the

 twenty-sixth

 and

 final studio album

 by the 

English musician

 David Bowie 

Released on 

 January 8th 2016, 

Bowie's 69th birthday, 

the album was

 recorded in secret

 in New York City 

with his longtime

 co-producer

 Tony Visconti

and a group of

 local jazz musicians: 

Donny McCaslin

 (saxophone),

 Jason Lindner

 (piano), 

Tim Lefebvre

 (bass)

 and 

Mark Guiliana 

(drums). 

Ben Monder

 and

 James Murphy 

contributed 

additional guitar 

and percussion,

 respectively. 

The album contains

 "Lazarus", 

from the

 2015 musical 

of the same name, 

and re-recorded

 versions of the 

2014 songs

 "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)"

 and

 "'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore".

More experimental

 than its predecessor 

The Next Day

 (2013), 

Blackstar

 combines atmospheric 

art rock with

 various styles of jazz.

 Bowie took 

inspiration from artists

 including 

Kendrick Lamar 

and Death Grips, 

listening to them 

during the

 album's production. 

The album's lyrics 

feature themes of death, 

with many songs 

being told from

 the perspective

 of the dead or dying. 

The cover art, 

designed by

 Jonathan Barnbrook, 

features a large black star 

with five star segments 

at the bottom

 that spell out

 the word Bowie.

The album was preceded by

 the singles 

"Blackstar"

 and

 "Lazarus", 

both of which 

were supported by 

music videos.

 Two days after its release, 

Bowie died 

following a private 

18-month battle

 with liver cancer; 

Visconti described

 the album as a

 parting gift

 for his fans 

after his death. 

Upon release,

 the album was met 

with commercial success, 

topping charts in 

many countries, 

including the

 United Kingdom, 

following 

Bowie's death,

 and became

 his only album 

to top the 

Billboard 200

 in the United States.

 It was the 

fifth-best-selling album

 of the year worldwide.

Blackstar

 received widespread acclaim 

as Bowie's most 

musically challenging album

 in decades, 

with critics praising the music,

 themes and performances

 of the backing band.

 It received three 

Grammy Awards 

and the Brit Award 

for British Album

 of the Year

 in 2017.

 It was listed as one

 of the best albums 

of 2016

 and later of the 

2010s

 decade by

 numerous publications. 

The work was

 re-analysed 

following Bowie's death, 

with critics and fans 

reinterpreting its lyrics, 

title and artwork 

as hinting at

 the artist's demise.

 Blackstar 

has since been described by

 publications and commentators 

as one of Bowie's 

best albums,

 a perfect farewell

 to his fans

 and one of the

 best final albums ever. 

Bowie's Illness

Bowie recorded

 Blackstar

while suffering

 from liver cancer. 

He had been diagnosed

 in the summer of 2014 

and was undergoing 

chemotherapy treatments 

by the time the 

sessions began

 in January 2015. 

He kept the illness private, 

only discussing it

 when it affected his work; 

 Visconti did not learn of it 

until Bowie arrived 

at the studio immediately

 following a chemo session. 

Visconti recalled

 that despite his illness, 

Bowie was in 

high spirits throughout

 the sessions:

"He was so brave and courageous ... 

and his energy was

 still incredible

 for a man who had cancer. 

He never showed any fear. 

He was just all business 

about making the album."

The artwork for

 Blackstar 

was designed by 

Jonathan Barnbrook, 

who filled the same role on 

Heathen 

(2002), 

Reality 

(2003)

 and 

The Next Day. 

The cover depicts a

 five-pointed star: 

black on white

 for the CD edition 

and all-black

 with a cut-out star 

on the vinyl release,

 which revealed the grooves

 of the record beneath. 

Barnbrook explained that due 

to the vinyl revival,

 he "wanted to give it the feeling 

that it contained something 

quite threatening". 

On the vinyl release, 

with the LP removed, 

the black paper behind

 the cut-out reveals

 a hidden picture 

of a starfield 

when the foldout sleeve

 is held up to a light source. 

It took more than

 four months 

for fans to 

discover the effect. 

Both sleeves 

feature five star segments

 below the main star 

that form the word

 Bowie

 in stylised letters. 

The cover's star image

 is credited to NASA 

in the CD booklet. 

The sleeve was the only 

Bowie sleeve 

not to feature

 an image of

 the artist himself.

Originally intended for

 release on 

 October 30th 2015,

 Blackstar 

was released on 

 January 8th 2016, 

coinciding with

 Bowie's 69th birthday,

 through his ISO label, 

Columbia Records 

and Sony Music. 

Two days later on

  January 10th

Bowie died

 of liver cancer; 

his illness 

had not been

 revealed to the public 

until then.

 Promotion and marketing 

continued following his death.

 In February

, a series of sixteen

 15-second film clips, 

titled 

Unbound: 

A Blackstar InstaMiniSeries, 

were uploaded to

 Instagram and later

 YouTube.

 The clips were intended

 to provide the creative team's 

"own visual interpretations 

of the songs, 

with no limits or 

preconditions on

 [Bowie's] part". 

A third and final single,

 "I Can't Give Everything Away",

 was released

 posthumously on 

April 6th 

accompanied by an

 animated video 

created by Barnbrook.

TRACKLIST

Blackstar

'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore

Lazarus

Sue

(Or In a Season of Crime)

Girl Loves Me

Dollar Days

I Can't Give Everything Away

Blackstar 

(Reversed)

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