Hints and tips:
...David Bowie first played Ziggy Stardust at the Aylesbury club. Decades later, Stringer worked on Bowie’s final album, Blackstar, and helped pay for his friend’s statue in the town’s Market Square....
...Barry’s dreamlike narrative, which captures the human inclination towards both beauty and depravity, slowly gathers pace as the book reaches its redemptive finale....
...Bowie stands up but I say it’s for Wood. We all sing “The Ballad of Barry & Freda”, with Keynes really getting into the lyric “Beat me on the bottom with the Woman’s Weekly”....
...When she was 15, she got a job as a dancer at the Copacabana, the nightclub lionised by Barry Manilow....
...Many popular musicians, including David Bowie, Bob Dylan and Michael Jackson, have been accused of sexual misconduct over the years....
...In 1997, David Bowie explored the idea of cashing in on his master recordings before opting instead to partner with insurance company Prudential to issue “Bowie bonds” that used future royalties from his...
...Each of the metre-high ceramics is blue, the favourite colour of both sides, and each features graphic nods to Marmite, David Bowie, Big Ben, Heinz and a host of other shared cultural reference points....
...When we think of rock stars we think of Keith Richards, Axl Rose, David Bowie — not of jobbing drummers with pot-bellies....
...Conceptual artist Robert Barry has put forward the idea of “the space between two objects” (shown as a blank page in the accompanying catalogue)....
...David Bowie owned a 62-acre property in the town of Woodstock....
...Barry Diller, the billionaire media mogul, has taken more than $12m of personal flights on a company-owned private jet since 2005, making him the biggest spender among US executives who use corporate aircraft...
...Devoto disagrees: “David Bowie rocked! And he did chuck a bit of intellectual baggage around, don’t you think?”...
...Buble’s 2003 major label debut album fell somewhere between George Michael and Barry Manilow, taking already abnegated elements of pop, jazz and rock and processing them into gleaming mushiness....
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