7 h. ago Iconic David Bowie pic set to become most expensive album artwork ever

This could be the most expensive album artwork ever sold when it goes under the hammer later this month but how did David Bowie come up with the idea for the Aladdin Sane album cover photo?

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8 d. ago Doja Cat: Vie review – master pop provocateur splits the difference between sugar and spice

(Kemosabe/RCA)On her fifth album, the Californian tempers the bite of 2023’s Scarlet with glossy, lovestruck sounds – but never loses her instinct for mischiefIs this just another troll? Doja Cat’s new album is titled Vie – French for “life” – and the original artwork (changed at the last minute) features the 29-year-old Angeleno surrounded by roses, ever the picture of congeniality. Doja has become known, in recent years, as mainstream pop’s master agitator: she tells her superfans to “get off your phone, get a job and help your parents with the house”, disavows her own hits before they’ve even left the upper echelons of the charts and is totally unapologetic about what can be described, charitably, as edgelord behaviour. Doja’s 2023 album Scarlet – a prickly, antagonistic record designed to prove her bona fides as a rapper – seemingly shut the book on her time as a pop hit-maker with a bracing, refreshing meanness.So there is precedent for the notion that Vie’s lead single Jealous...

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1 week ago David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane could become most expensive album art ever sold

Original image shot by Brian Duffy estimated to fetch £300,000 when it goes under the hammer in OctoberThe original image for David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane album could become the most expensive album artwork ever sold when it goes under the hammer with an estimate of £300,000.The famous picture of Bowie with a lightning bolt across his face could beat the record set by Led Zeppelin’s debut album artwork, which sold for $325,000 in 2020. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago David Bowie archive opens in London chronicling five decades of icon’s restless creativity

David Bowie archive opens in London chronicling five decades of icon’s restless creativity  The Seattle Times

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3 w. ago Unheard David Bowie interview reveals three things that defined his music style of the 70s

Iconic musician David Bowie is the subject of a new podcast series hosted by Kate Moss on BBC Sounds

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4 w. ago How to see David Bowie's secret final project as late icon's last piece of art unearthed

The late Life On Mars singer worked on a musical in the months before his death, a project so secret, not even his closest collaborators knew about it

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4 w. ago Sam McKnight: David Bowie made “different” acceptable and aspirational

Celebrated hair stylist Sam McKnight on David Bowie, his beauty icons and his new hair fragrance

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