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“David shook my hand and said, ‘Here’s the song I want to do.’ It was Golden Years. I was auditioning during the making of the album”: Bassist George Murray’s six-year stint with David Bowie

As a member of Bowie’s band, George Murray cut the studio albums Station to Station, Low, Heroes, Lodger, and Scary Monsters

Guitar World

“I have only flashes of making it. I was personally going through a very bad time”: How a disillusioned and drug-addicted David Bowie reinvented his music with a groundbreaking song he could barely remember recording

A dazzling epic that ushered in Bowie’s new persona, the Thin White Duke

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“I’ve rocked my roll. It’s a boring dead end. The last thing I want to be is some useless rock singer”: How a disillusioned and drug-addicted David Bowie reinvented his music with a groundbreaking song he could barely remember recording

A dazzling epic that ushered in Bowie’s new persona, the Thin White Duke

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“Before we knew it we had a sound no one had ever heard before”: How David Bowie created one of the greatest songs of all time via a range of innovative recording techniques

One of Bowie’s highest watermarks, Heroes continues to sound utterly timeless due to its layered production and passionate vocal performance

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“It was a mind-bender. Your brain tells you this isn’t supposed to work”: From unplayable rhythms to lost astronauts – the genius of David Bowie’s Ashes To Ashes

"It’s childlike and melancholic in that children’s story way,” Bowie said

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David Bowie's Berlin Trilogy musicians reunite for European tour

Carlos Alomar and George Murray to undertake the D.A.M. Trilogy - Back To Berlin Tour in November and December

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"I wasn’t fired, they just didn’t call me back. I didn’t even get a note from David saying it’s time to move on": The unlikely story of George Murray, the David Bowie bassist who became a school superintendent

Plucked from obscurity in 1975 to be in David Bowie’s band, then unceremoniously dumped five years later, bassist George Murray looks back on his time with the Thin White Duke

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“James Brown kept saying, ‘We’re gonna take it to the bridge.’ Finally, he whipped around and said, ‘Hit me!’ Unfortunately, I did not hit him at all”: Carlos Alomar was fined by the Godfather of Soul, scolded by Chuck Berry – and adored by David Bowie

Playing professionally since his teens, Carlos Alomar was part of the DAM Trio rhythm section that backed David Bowie from the mid-’70s – and now, he says, it’s time to commemorate that legendary collective

Guitar World

“I had forgotten something – I don't know what. As I came back, I heard my father say, ‘Wait a minute, here he is!’” George Murray became part of David Bowie’s famous D.A.M. rhythm trio – but almost missed the call-up because he had to catch a bus

The D.A.M. Trio recorded and performed extensively with Bowie across the '70s, but the revered rhythm section could have looked very different had Murray caught his bus

Guitar World

Are AI Companies Ripping Off Writers? Canadian Authors Speak Out

Yann Martel, Heather O’Neill, Douglas Coupland, and others weigh in on their books being used to train AI systems

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The abandoned 'haunted' Scottish mansion used as an Outlander filming location

Outlander fans may recognise the ruins of Dunmore Park House from the television series, in which it was used to film a scene in the very first episode, but it has a fascinating history of its own.

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Hundreds gather for funeral of 'kind' Scots homeless man as locals raise thousands to give him send off

George Murray, 51, was a popular figure in Northampton town centre where he lived on the streets for 15 years after moving from Ayrshire.

Daily Record

The Indigenous people killed by police in Australia

After recent acquittals of police officers, Indigenous Australians ask ‘when are they going to stop killing us?’

Al Jazeera

Every Hill Got A Story: collected First Nations oral histories are a profound gift to national memory

Bequeathed from memory to memory, these records remind us how recently central Australian Indigenous people felt the upheaval of colonialism

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The Kumanjayi Walker murder case echoes a long history of police violence against First Nations people

Readers are advised that the following article contains the names and images of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons. This article also contains mention of past deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. There is also mention of sexual assault.

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Secret love letters between exiled Jacobite and wife who were forced apart after Culloden found

The lovesick pair had to use codes to avoid being found out.

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Elderly Whickham couple finally reunited after five months of separation due to 'shortage of social care'

George and Dorothy Murray endured five months of separation after George was admitted to hospital in August

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