The night David Bowie died, guitarist Gerry Leonard was a marquee guest at the first annual Dublin Bowie Festival, and the subject of an onstage interview about his close collaborator. Leonard played on three of Bowie’s albums — 2002's Heathen, 2003's Reality, and 2013's The Next Day — and was the musical director of his epic Reality tour, the one cut short by Bowie's 2004 heart attack. Six years later, when the superstar was ready to record again for what would become The Next Day, one of the first people he contacted was Leonard. They met in Leonard’s Woodstock home and worked up the first demos of his long-awaited comeback album. (The next one, Blackstar, was released two days before Bowie’s death.) Leonard was back in New York last week for a gig with Suzanne Vega. We caught up with him in a downtown boutique hotel to talk about the...
- 1/22/2016
- by Boris Kachka
- Vulture
David Bowie has triumphantly burst back onto the music scene with his new album 'The Next Day', and now it seems he's about to enjoy chart success, too, becoming the best-selling artist of the year so far.
Bowie's first album in a decade is already in top spot on the midweek chart, and expected to retain its position on Sunday when the week's chart is announced.
David Bowie with his wife Iman, his whoops-a-daisy spokesperson
Bowie surprised and delighted his fans a fortnight ago, with a new single 'Where Are We Now?', from the album, having sworn musicians working with him to silence while the record was being created.
And, in even better news for devotees of the Rocket Man turned family man, his model wife Iman may have put her foot in it, by hinting that he could be about to go back on the road with his new tunes.
Bowie's first album in a decade is already in top spot on the midweek chart, and expected to retain its position on Sunday when the week's chart is announced.
David Bowie with his wife Iman, his whoops-a-daisy spokesperson
Bowie surprised and delighted his fans a fortnight ago, with a new single 'Where Are We Now?', from the album, having sworn musicians working with him to silence while the record was being created.
And, in even better news for devotees of the Rocket Man turned family man, his model wife Iman may have put her foot in it, by hinting that he could be about to go back on the road with his new tunes.
- 3/14/2013
- by The Huffington Post UK
- Huffington Post
It’s been quite a rush of late for fans of David Bowie; what with his sudden and out of the blue single Where Are We Now? coinciding with the announcement of a new album in the shape of The Next day, soon followed by the stellar second single The Stars (Are Out Tonight), then the early free streaming of the album before its release at the start of this week – which if you’ve not checked it out has been reviewed here for your pleasure so have a nose.
All that aside though, as exciting and incendiary a return as it might of been. There was an early on promise that Bowie would not be touring this album and had no intention of doing so, from the man himself. However as those previously mentioned momentous events of this comeback started to unfold, rumours began to circulate – most notably from...
All that aside though, as exciting and incendiary a return as it might of been. There was an early on promise that Bowie would not be touring this album and had no intention of doing so, from the man himself. However as those previously mentioned momentous events of this comeback started to unfold, rumours began to circulate – most notably from...
- 3/13/2013
- by Morgan Roberts
- Obsessed with Film
Guitarist Earl Slick has said that the band behind David Bowie's comeback album wants to go out on tour. Slick joins other regular Bowie collaborators Gail Ann Dorsey, Tony Visconti, Sterling Campbell, Zachary Alford, Gerry Leonard and David Torn on The Next Day, which was announced on Tuesday (January 8). Asked about the possibility of a tour, Slick told Ultimate Classic Rock: "We don't know. Obviously, we want him to. But right now, that's a big if. Like I said before, sometimes he shows up and sometimes he doesn't. "I could get a phone call tomorrow saying, 'Hey, you know what? Here's the setlist'. I don't know. I can't speak for him or the organisation. "Obviously, the (more)...
- 1/10/2013
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Guitarist Earl Slick has said that the band behind David Bowie's comeback album wants to go out on tour. Slick joins other regular Bowie collaborators Gail Ann Dorsey, Tony Visconti, Sterling Campbell, Zachary Alford, Gerry Leonard and David Torn on The Next Day, which was announced on Tuesday (January 8). Asked about the possibility of a tour, Slick told Ultimate Classic Rock: "We don't know. Obviously, we want him to. But right now, that's a big if. Like I said before, sometimes he shows up and sometimes he doesn't. "I could get a phone call tomorrow saying, 'Hey, you know what? Here's the setlist'. I don't know. I can't speak for him or the organisation. "Obviously, the (more)...
- 1/10/2013
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
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