Sunday, January 13, 2013

The inside story of how David Bowie made The Next Day

Trust David Bowie to start a new trend. The surprise return of the “retired” pop chameleon, after a decade resting on his laurels, appears to have delivered a kick up the backside to other music stars who have been content to sit back and count their

“Time may change me/ But I can't trace time,” sang David Bowie in the closing lines of one of his most famous songs, “Changes.” But more than 40 years later, tracing time is exactly what he's doing. Earlier this week on his 66th birthday, the man born

Martin Belam: So it's just a white square with text over an old image, is it? Think again – The Next Day's cover makes you use your mind.

Martin Belam: So it's just a white square with text over an old image, is it? Think again – The Next Day's cover makes you use your mind.

During much of the past two years, Tony Visconti has been walking around the streets of New York with my headphones, listening to the music that became The Next Day,

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