David Bowie

post · Aug 15, 2026

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEXI “The paintings are all your own...” As you most likely know, today is the 26th birthday of Alexandria Zahra Jones. Her mother, Iman, has posted some great images, including the first one here, along with this accompanying message... + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + Happy birthday Lexi! You are smart, creative, funny and loving young woman and I thank God everyday I get to be your mommy! You will always be my baby! Music: Lexi Jones “Moral Compass” Xandri 2025

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post · Jul 22, 2026

LIFETIME ACHIEVMENT AWARD FOR SUKITA “Photograph king, watches you go…” Great to hear that Masayoshi Sukita is to receive the much-deserved Lifetime Achievement Award at Abbey Road Music Photography Awards in September. Regular visitors to these pages will be well aware of his work, which was created via several sessions with Bowie over a 37-year period starting in 1972. The great man had this to say about the award... + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + “It is a big honour for me

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post · Jun 27, 2026

LABYRINTH 40TH - TELL US ABOUT YOUR JOURNEY “What kind of magic spell to use?” Even the most casual observer can’t have failed to notice that 2026 marks the 40th anniversary of Jim Henson’s Labyrinth. We’ve said it before, but just three years on from the influx of new recruits drawn in by the Let's Dance album and accompanying Serious Moonlight World Tour of 1983, Labyrinth became the gateway for a whole new generation of Bowie fans. The film was first released on this day in 1986 in North Amer

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reel · May 29, 2026

Twenty years ago today, David Gilmour played the first of three shows at London's Royal Albert Hall, with a very special guest appearance for Comfortably Numb from David Bowie, in what sadly turned out to be Bowie's final ever appearance on a UK stage. On Sunday at 5pm BST / 12noon ET / 6pm CET, the entire show, released as Remember That Night, will premiere on David's YouTube (where you can watch the full performance of Comfortably Numb now).

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post · Jan 10, 2026

David Bowie: January 8th 1947 - January 10th 2016 (Image by Masashi Kuwamoto, 1980) #BowieForever

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post · Jan 9, 2026

BOWIE’S CHILDHOOD HOME TO OPEN TO PUBLIC “You were a talented child, You came to live in our town...” David Bowie’s childhood home at 4 Plaistow Grove in Bromley, South London will be restored and opened to the public in late 2027. The terraced house will be used for creative and skills workshops for young people, who will hopefully soak up some of the inspiration that served Bowie from ages 8 to 20 (1955–1967). Go here for the full press release: www.davidbowie.com/blog/2026/1/8/bowies-childhoo

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post · Jan 8, 2026

★ ALBUM IS TEN YEARS OLD “We were born upside-down...” Ten years ago today on 8th January 2016, David Bowie released his 28th studio album ★ (Blackstar) on his 69th birthday. Today would have been his 79th birthday. Here follows the text from the post we made back then, which was accompanied by another Jimmy King image from the same session as the one we’ve used today. + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID BOWIE AND ★ “That’s the message that I sent...” Why is th

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post · Jan 7, 2026

LAZARUS VIDEO IS TEN YEARS OLD “Everybody knows me now...” Following the release of the digital single on 18th December 2015 and an exclusive Christmas Day teaser of a Jimmy King still from the set of Lazarus, the Johan Renck-directed video became available ten years ago today on 7th January 2016, the day before the release of Bowie’s 28th album ★ (Blackstar). Renck, who also directed the 10-minute short film for the album’s title track, commented on the experience of visually interpreting that

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post · Jan 6, 2026

REMINDER: LABYRINTH BACK ON THE BIG SCREEN FROM THURSDAY “We're choosing the path between the stars...” In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Labyrinth and on what would have been his 79th birthday, David Bowie returns to theatres starring as Jareth in this beloved fantasy masterpiece. With screenings from 8th January US tickets are available here: https://hubs.la/Q03Wy20z0 (Linktree in bio) UK/EIRE Tickets: https://bit.ly/m/LabyrinthTicketsUK (Linktree in bio) #BowieLabyrinth #BowieLabyrint

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reel · Jan 2, 2026

DAVID BOWIE ‘HEROES’ - THE POWERFUL & EVOCATIVE FINAL SONG IN THE SERIES FINALE OF NETFLIX’S STRANGER THINGS ‘HEROES’ IS AVAILABLE TO STREAM NOW ON PARLOPHONE: https://bowie.lnk.to/Heroes (See Linktree) WATCH THE HD REMASTERED 'HEROES' VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXgkuM2NhYI New Year’s Day saw the broadcast on Netflix of the final episode of the phenomenally successful and critically lauded Stranger Things. Ten years in the making, the final song of the entire series is ‘Heroes’ by Da

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post · Dec 7, 2025

LAZARUS OPENED TEN YEARS AGO TODAY “By the time I got to New York...” LAZARUS by DAVID BOWIE & ENDA WALSH Directed by IVO VAN HOVE Inspired by the novel The Man Who Fell to Earth by WALTER TEVIS Following nearly three weeks of previews, public performances of Lazarus began ten years ago this evening at the New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW). David Bowie attended the opening night, and it was to be his final public appearance. We’re marking the anniversary with a random selection of pictures, inclu

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post · Nov 4, 2025

BOWIE ON SOUL TRAIN 50 YEARS AGO TODAY “He’s so divine, his soul shines...” Fifty years ago today, David Bowie earned the privilege of an appearance on the famous US music show, Soul Train, though it wasn’t broadcast until January the following year. Two tracks were performed, his current single Fame, his very first #1 in the US, and his next release, Golden Years. A nervous Bowie (calmed a little by the ingestion of something or other), answered questions from the presenter, Don Cornelius, and

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reel · Oct 27, 2025

Bowie broke all the rules ⛓️‍💥 Revisit items in the Bowie archive with @thelastdinnerparty as they react to the artists' iconic Ziggy Stardust catsuit. Designed by Kansai Yamamoto, the costume embodied Bowie’s radical reimagining of gender, transforming fashion into a stage for self-expression and fluid identity. Watch the full video on V&A UP Next. Link in bio 📺

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reel · Oct 14, 2025

HEROES REALITY TOUR LIVE HD UPGRADE “We could steal time, just for two days...” A Reality Tour commenced on 7th October 2003 at the Forum Copenhagen in Denmark. The following month, the shows on 22nd and 23rd of November 2003 at The Point in Dublin, were recorded for A Reality Tour for both audio and DVD. "Heroes" was but one of the songs on the impressive setlist played over the two days in Dublin. In a 2010 interview with Mark Adams about the release, Bowie explained how he went about selectin

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reel · Jul 30, 2025

A STAR IS BORN ON TOP OF THE POPS “Hey, that’s far out so you heard him too?” 53 years ago this week, Starman started its slow descent from the UK singles chart from its peak of #10. After a long countdown following its release on Friday 28 April 1972, the record lifted off when Bowie and The Spiders’ performance on the BBC’s Top Of The Pops was aired on Thursday 6th July, 1972. This broadcast was ranked as the greatest BBC music performance of all time in the UK’s The Guardian newspaper in 2022

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