David Bowie - The Next Day

He's ahead of the curve, yet again. After the succes of 30, 35, and 40 year anniversary reissues of his seminal 70's albums he's clearly upped his game.

Rock legend David Bowie fails to win any prizes at the Q Awards, despite nominations in six categories, and is trounced by Ellie Goulding in the prize for best solo artist.

I was able to listen to all the new songs with an Italian proxy: http://www.deejay.it/speciali/david-bowie-in-anteprima-la-versione-speciale-del-nuovo-album/356651/

works for me too.
Spotted a vocal melody from Beatles' "Help" in "Like A Rocket Man".
..and LOL the intro from "Born in a UFO" uses the "Born in the USA" template. its lyrics reference some other song that eludes me..

New video for the Murphy remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOy7vPwEtCw

Wow, love it

Yeah, that's really good.

And so, out of nowhere, a new interview:

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2013/12/11/exclusive-interview-david-bowie/

Great stuff. Especially Iggy offering Bowie coke at Reed's 'after-wake thing'.

Hmmm. He sounded...halting?

Maybe an email interview? That said I'm still a *little* skeptical about it.

yes exactly

Frankly I checked to see if the site was some sort of joke site. It isn't but you know, I'd like to see something more concrete here.

gotta be click bait.

cant imagine he would ever say that re iggy/coke re the funeral.

quite a lot of the other stuff does not ring true either ..

Doesn't "sound" like him.

Unless his personality has changed quite a bit in his years away, this can't be him.

"Veracity responsibility of author"

a-ha!

Gotta get the tone right when ya try to pull off something like that.

I wonder what the "best" fake interview is?

Anyway, 404'd.

"Your website's dead, there's something wrong"

Project canceled.

I wonder what the "best" fake interview is?

The ones Weird Al used to do were great.

Most hilarious old recent one I've seen: Hitler and Andy Warhol, as conceived by Alexander Cockburn

Amusement: the site's Twitter feed:

https://twitter.com/godisinthetv

Sounds like the editor thought it was real!

I mean, it didn't sound like Bowie at all. When he consents to these things it's the reporter who often thinks he's eavesdropping, Bowie's so garrulous.

i thought bowie and iggy had a falling out a while back?

Now I'm actually curious to read the thing. Hmm.

FWIW:

https://twitter.com/godisinthetv/status/410890616105467904

And

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151835709306546&id=6499156545

After three hours of getting to the bottom of it. I'm afraid the David Bowie interview was incorrect. After our Bowie Month we were really excited to believe that Mr Bowie may speak to us. We are really sorry we made an error of judgement in trusting our writer's word that he had spoken to Mr Bowie as he had never fabricated any of his previous interviews and claimed this to be genuine. We couldn't gain verification from the writer himself or any other source so we added a disclaimer that the 'veracity of the interview was with the writer'. We trusted someone's word, he let us down, and we won't make that mistake again. But this in no way excuses the publication of the piece. We apologise to our readers for publishing something that was not from a trusted source. We have worked for 10 years to provide you with interesting and genuine content. Please be assured that all previous and future content on the site is 100% genuine, and we have learnt our lesson. Thank you for your feedback and continued support. Again apologies to you and Mr Bowie who we revere in the deepest possible terms.

feel bad for 'em: they got suckered. But jeez, if you're going to make up an exclusive Bowie interview, do it with a bit more verve and wit. That thing read like someone had used "The Next Day"'s wikipedia page as their main reference.

Also from the writer in question:

I have apologised to Bill and Lisa already. This was a case of drunken enthusiasm, mixed with a bit of anger over Bowie's Vuitton ad. My mistake was sending it to Bill in an altered state - he had no reason not to trust, as I had never done such a thing before. I have never 'worked for' God Is In The TV, though I have contributed many articles, and clearly won't again. Keep up the good work, and once again, all apologies

Of all things.

lolcohol

"Why Vuitton? I ALWAYS PREFERRED COACH."

RAGH THAT COMMERCIAL WAS 10 MINUTES LONG RAGH

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lcct5

David Bowie has given Guy Garvey the World Exclusive of his new single Sue, how amazing - so, it's David Bowie Day on the Finest Hour.

According to Guy they are now best friends, we'll see eh?

If Guy can contain his excitement this week's theme will be tunes relating to the moon, including Moon by This Is The Kit, Canned Heats Poor Moon and Speck Mountain's Hey Moon.

Oh and don't forget it's David Bowie Day on Guy Garvey's Finest Hour, first play ever in the whole wide word of his new single - Sue, all a delicious 7 minutes and 27 seconds.

Will not listen to Garvey's dreadful salt of the earth Northerner schtick under any circumstances

Oh wait that's the Elbow guy. Yeah...don't blame you.

Yeah that's the one major blight in this - having to listen to an hour of Garvey's patented 'that guy down the pub who talks a lot and you try to avoid'. Although the track'll be posted somewhere soon enough this afternoon.

The new single is a collaboration with Maria Schneider, of all people ... looking forward to hearing it one of these days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GodUgnO7lY

That's a great song.

The new single is a collaboration with Maria Schneider, of all people ... looking forward to hearing it one of these days

yes, the Gil Evans protege ... this sounds great!

yep, this new song is excellent.

Scott Walker 60's style melody

will there be a new album?

that is really great!

xpost -- greatest hits comp in a month.

bummer..

he should record a whole album of this "Scott walker Drum n Base Jazz Kraut" style