The Corsham Street Sessions 25 years ago today

“Not tomorrow, It happens today”

Today marks the 25th anniversary of John Scarisbrick’s Corsham Street Sessions, during which Bowie was transformed into the various characters for the 1. Outside album.

In celebration of this fact, DEK magazine’s premiere issue is also published today. Issue #1 has 40 pages of Bowie content including the cover and is shipping now.

This is the first time that these incredible sessions have been researched in such detail. DEK has interviewed the photoshoot’s key players and the feature boasts many previously unpublished photographs taken by Davide De Angelis (who took both of the shots in today's montage), along with some 1995 studio shots from Michael Lavine and lots of detail regarding Bowie’s singular vision for the concept of this ground-breaking 1. Outside album.

#DEKmagazine #CorshamStreetSessions #BowieOutside25

Iman’s anniversary message to David

On the 28th anniversary of David and Iman's private civil wedding ceremony at Lausanne registry office in Switzerland in 1992, Iman has remembered David with the following message:

“You are the first and last thing on my mind each and every day” – Iman

(The happy couple are pictured here almost 30 years ago when they attend the Twice Gifted Auction Benefit for the American Cancer Society on November 27, 1990 (the year they met), at Edward Nakhamkin Gallery in NYC. Photograph by Ron Galella.)

#ImanDaily #BowieForever #EternalLove #LoveMemories

When Bowie got into bed with Laura Ashley

“The paintings are all your own”

On 31st March 1995, the Poole Edwards PR agency announced a forthcoming David Bowie solo exhibition of his art, running from 25 years ago today, 18th April, to 29th April, 1995, at the Gallery in Cork Street, London.

This was to be the first solo exhibition of his work and was eventually listed as New Afro Pagan and Work: 1975-1995.

The event featured various paintings and sculptures along with two wallpapers that caught the attention of the press, due to the marriage of traditional and new.

Here's the press release...

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31st March 1995

BOWIE AND LAURA ASHLEY CREATE ART WALLPAPER

Having designed two highly unusual wallpapers as art exhibits for his first solo exhibition of paintings, drawings sculptures and an installation, David Bowie found himself at a loss as to how to print them.

Help came in the most unlikely form of the fashion and home furnishings company, Laura Ashley, providing both the printing expertise and an original floral underlay for Bowie’s designs.

The papers will be part of an installation piece titled "District 6" featuring a box made up of African hairdressing advertisement boards. Sections of the papers will also be hung as framed prints.

"British Conflicts" features a charcoal portrait of the painter Lucien Freud, inside a Damien Hirst style box.

"The Crouch" portrays one of Bowie's charcoal drawings of a Minotaur against a large concrete block.

The two wallpapers have been printed in a limited run exclusively for the exhibition.

The Ashley/Bowie collaboration will debut at the forthcoming David Bowie 1975 - 1995 first solo exhibition showing. The exhibition runs from 18-29 April 1995 at the Gallery in Cork Street, 28 Cork Street, London WIX 1HB.

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Next week we'll be focusing on some of the collectables produced in conjunction with the show, which, for those who couldn't afford to buy any of Bowie’s actual art, turned out to be very good investments.

Pictured in our montage are the aforementioned wallpapers along with the private view invite and the embossed version of the exhibition catalogue which was sent out with the invites.

#BowieArt #BowieAfroPagan

Mick Rock Bowie feature in CLASH 115

“He wanted to stay home, I wish someone would phone”

The Spring issue (#115) of CLASH magazine has David Bowie as one of four different covers. With a theme of STAY HOME, apparently CLASH wants to use this latest issue as “a means to break down the barriers of self-isolation, to supply a sense of community at a time when many of us feel alone.”

They go on to say: “David Bowie turned isolation into an art form. Transforming himself into an alien outsider, his 1972 album 'The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars' flipped pop on its head, its metallic crunch exploding how rock could communicate.”

In celebration of the recent reissue of Mick Rock’s superb photo book, TASCHEN’s The Rise of David Bowie 1972-1973, Robin Murray interviews the photographer for the Bowie feature…

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“What conclusions do I come to?” Mick ponders aloud. “David was very articulate, he was very intelligent, and he did great interviews. So that helped a lot. He would talk about the future – he loved science fiction and philosophy. David was a very avid reader. He was highly self-educated. He was a man of great curiosity. He wanted to know about things. And of course he pushed it all forwards – not just music… but culturally in a huge way. And his legacy is amazing. It doesn’t stop. People’s interest in him is as high as it’s ever been.”

“But I loved him,” Mick adds, with an assertive bite to his voice. “He was a very kind man. He was personally very kind. He was very inspirational, and of course he was physically a very good-looking man. Which was a nice thing for photographers!”

There’s a sense of moments slipping away into the ether as our conversation draws to a close. “It was a magical time for me, and David was the most magical of them all,” he says. “And I miss him.”

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Also featured in this issue is H.E.R, Ryan Beatty, Alicia Keys, Kim Petras, Mae Muller, Inhaler, Gorillaz, Graham Coxon, Cavetown, Shaggy, and many more. Other covers to follow this week.

#BowieClash #BowieMickRock #BowieTASCHEN

CHANGESNOWBOWIE streaming reminder

“Really quite out of sight”

Wherever you are in the world, as Thursday 16th April turns to Friday 17th April, Parlophone are making available the streaming version of the full CHANGESNOWBOWIE LP.

CHANGESNOWBOWIE is a 9-track album, recorded for radio and broadcast by the BBC on David’s 50th birthday on 8th January, 1997. This mostly acoustic session was a stripped back affair featuring some of David’s favourites of his own compositions and was produced by Bowie himself, Reeves Gabrels and Mark Plati.

Some of you lucky folk who live in the future might already be listening. Pretty good, isn’t it?

DAVID BOWIE - CHANGESNOWBOWIE TRACKLISTING

The Man Who Sold The World

Aladdin Sane

White Light / White Heat

Shopping For Girls

Lady Stardust

The Supermen

Repetition

Andy Warhol

Quicksand

#CHANGESNOWBOWIE

Repetition '97 video and CHANGESNOWBOWIE version audio

“And he looks straight through you”

As promised last week, as Thursday 09th April turns to Friday 10th April (which it already has in some parts of the world), Parlophone makes available the Repetition ’97 video for streaming and download along with the Repetition CHANGESNOWBOWIE audio.

To hopefully clear up any confusion, although both tracks are Repetition from 1997, they are different recordings. The video is the previously unavailable Repetition ’97 video (filmed along with I Can’t Read at the Earthling Tour rehearsals in Hartford Connecticut by Tim Pope), and the audio of Repetition is the CHANGESNOWBOWIE version.

As previously mentioned, Parlophone will be releasing a streaming version of the full CHANGESNOWBOWIE album on 17th April.

Here's the current release schedule:

★ Friday 10th April: Repetition ’97 video available for streaming and download.

★ Friday 10th April: Repetition CHANGESNOWBOWIE version audio available for streaming.

★ Friday 17h April: CHANGESNOWBOWIE available for streaming.

★ Friday 19th June: Space Oddity picture disc vinyl LP released.

★ Saturday 20th June: CHANGESNOWBOWIE vinyl LP and CD released for Record Store Day.

★ Saturday 20th June: I’M ONLY DANCING (THE SOUL TOUR 74) Double vinyl LP and 2CD released for Record Store Day.

#CHANGESNOWBOWIE #BowieRepetition97 #BowieIOD74 #BowieRSD20 #SpaceOddityPicDisc #BowieVinyl

ChangesNowBowie LP and Repetition video update

“And he could have had a Cadillac”

As you are all now aware, Record Store Day 2020 (RSD) has been rescheduled to 20th June. Given the current world situation, it remains to be seen if that date is still a little ambitious.

However, we obviously understand how disappointed fans will be, so Parlophone will be releasing a streaming version of CHANGESNOWBOWIE on 17 April, the day before the original RSD.

Prior to that on 10th April, the previously unavailable Repetition ’97 video (filmed at the Earthling Tour rehearsals in Hartford Connecticut by Tim Pope), will be made available for streaming and download.

The audio of Repetition CHANGESNOWBOWIE version will also be available to stream from the same date.

Here's the updated release schedule:

★ Friday 10th April: Repetition ’97 video available for streaming and download.

★ Friday 10th April: Repetition CHANGESNOWBOWIE version audio available for streaming.

★ Friday 17h April: CHANGESNOWBOWIE available for streaming.

★ Friday 19th June: Space Oddity picture disc vinyl LP released.

★ Saturday 20th June: CHANGESNOWBOWIE vinyl LP and CD released for Record Store Day.

★ Saturday 20th June: I’M ONLY DANCING (THE SOUL TOUR 74) Double vinyl LP and 2CD released for Record Store Day.

#CHANGESNOWBOWIE #BowieRepetition97 #BowieIOD74 #BowieRSD20 #SpaceOddityPicDisc #BowieVinyl

Keep Reading for the full press release.

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DAVID BOWIE ‘CHANGESNOWBOWIE' ALBUM OF UNRELEASED MATERIAL AVAILABLE TO STREAM FROM 17th APRIL

PREVIOUSLY UNAVAILABLE 'REPETITION ’97' VIDEO ALSO AVAILABLE FOR STREAMING AND DOWNLOAD FROM 10th APRIL

DAVID BOWIE ‘REPETITION (CHANGESNOWBOWIE VERSION)’ AVAILABLE TO STREAM FROM 10th APRIL

‘CHANGESNOWBOWIE' LIMITED EDITION NINE TRACK LP/CD OF PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED MATERIAL TO BE ISSUED FOR RECORD STORE DAY 20th JUNE, 2020

1st April 2020 London:

Parlophone Records is happy to announce that DAVID BOWIE CHANGESNOWBOWIE, a previously unreleased nine-track album, is to be made available early for fans on streaming services to mark the original date of Record Store Day 2020, which was to feature the LP and CD but has now been postponed to 20th June.

CHANGESNOWBOWIE is a 9-track album, recorded for radio and broadcast by the BBC on David’s 50th birthday on 8th January, 1997. This mostly acoustic session was a stripped back affair featuring some of David’s favourites of his own compositions and was produced by Bowie himself, Reeves Gabrels and Mark Plati.

From 10th April the previously unavailable REPETITION ’97 video filmed at the Earthling Tour rehearsals in Hartford Connecticut by Tim Pope will be made available for streaming and download. The CHANGESNOWBOWIE audio version of the track will also be available to stream from the same date.

CHANGESNOWBOWIE was recorded and mixed at Looking Glass Studios in New York in November 1996. Gail Ann Dorsey (bass, vocals), Reeves Gabrels (guitars, vocals) and Mark Plati (keyboards and programming) accompanied David on the recording.

CHANGESNOWBOWIE will be released in limited quantities on LP and CD for Record Store Day on 20th June, 2020. The cover art for the album features a stunning black and white portrait of David by renowned photographer Albert Watson, taken in New York in 1996.

DAVID BOWIE - CHANGESNOWBOWIE TRACKLISTING

The Man Who Sold The World

Aladdin Sane

White Light / White Heat

Shopping For Girls

Lady Stardust

The Supermen

Repetition

Andy Warhol

Quicksand