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“When I asked him what he thought of what I was doing, glam rock, he said, ‘Yeah, it’s great, but it’s just rock ’n’ roll with lipstick on!’”: How David Bowie and John Lennon bonded to create a funky No.1 hit that slammed celebrity culture

“We spent hours and hours discussing fame," Bowie said

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“I used a Gibson EB-3 through my time with David, trying to get the same bass sound Andy Fraser got with Free”: How the late, great Trevor Bolder applied melodic flair to anchor this irresistible 12/8 rocker from David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane

Replacing longtime Bowie collaborator Tony Visconti in the Spiders From Mars, Bolder found himself writing basslines on the spot, a challenge he relished. On Drive-In Saturday, he hit the jackpot

Guitar World

"I went upstairs to show the person how to play the riff... and it was John McEnroe!" David Bowie on the art and process of songwriting

David Bowie explains his creative process and reveals why time and place matter

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Missing ingredients, brand new colours and the chances of alien life – take the Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

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“When I first heard his voice in my headphones, there was that moment of, ‘My God! I’m recording with David Bowie!’” Bassist Tim Lefebvre on the making of David Bowie's Lazarus

The session for Bowie’s Blackstar album took place in early 2015 at the Magic Shop in New York

Guitar World

“When he got in front of the microphone, he sang his balls off. I’d never seen him happier”: How David Bowie stared down death itself for his final left-turn

Bowie foresaw how the world would react to his end - and artfully deconstructed his own myth with a last great masterwork

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“She was looking at her pill bottles. I knew she was going to die so I was like, ‘Put it down. Live right now’”: Mastodon’s Bill Kelliher wrote songs for Emperor Of Sand at his mum’s deathbed

A cancer tragedy and other real-life dramas inspired Mastodon’s seventh album Emperor Of Sand, which they believe was 17 years in the making

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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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“I got a phone call asking me for a quote about Lennon. Apparently I was one of the last musicians seen talking to him before his death”: Rick Wakeman’s wild tales of John Lennon, David Bowie, Keith Moon and Ozzy Osbourne

Playing with Bowie and Sabbath,. boozing with Keith Moon, hanging out with Lennon – Rick Wakeman has done it all

Louder

“I thought Bowie was talented even though he lacked direction. I could hear the star quality in his voice”: Tony Visconti’s tales of David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Phil Lynott and U2

Bowie, Bolan, Thin Lizzy – producer Tony Visconti has worked with them all

Louder

“We didn’t know we were creating a new style… we took sounds from anywhere and everywhere”: Tony Visconti, Roger Dean and the making of Osibisa’s debut album

Released in 1971, the African-tinged record pioneered what would become world music, and took prog into fresh new waters too.

Louder

“We’d been paying Rick Wakeman £25 a week and Yes offered him £100… We had his son Oliver with us for a while, and he left for Yes too!” Dave Cousins and the life and times of Strawbs

Prog veteran recalls connecting with Sandy Denny, his band’s attempt to fire him, being loved by Led Zeppelin, why they’ve never had a Steven Wilson remix, the “albatross” of Part Of The Union and the unreleased, more political version

Louder

“Because the guy’s got a knife, he’s fairly persuasive!”: How Paul McCartney survived a mugging - and a mutiny - to create his solo masterpiece

The full, amazing story of Band On The Run

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“I was always so surprised that jazz musicians were into the idea of doing rock”: the story of Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime), the song that set up David Bowie’s final triumph

Bowie’s jazz experiment was released ten years ago this month. Here, his collaborators remember how it came together

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“Lemmy and I got on fine most of the time, but we had our moments. Being in Motörhead was crazy 24 hours a day”: ex-Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian ‘Robbo’ Robertson’s wild tales of Phil Lynott, Lemmy, David Bowie and more

Phil Lynott, Lemmy, Rush, Alex ‘Hurricane’ Higgins – former Thin Lizzy/Motörhead guitarist Brian Robertson crossed paths with them all and has the hangovers to prove it

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"That's the problem with me, you see. I'm a lunatic": The true story of Marc Bolan's final days

Marc Bolan, the Guru Of Glitter, was killed in a car crash in 1977 – just as his career was on the rise again. This is the story of his final hours

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Bowie song Heroes inspired by star’s day with girlfriend, new documentary says

BBC Radio 4’s Bowie in Berlin tells how Clare Shenstone shared ‘extraordinary day’ reflected in song’s lyrics

The Guardian - UK

‘I thought the chorus was wicked’: Aswad on how they made Don’t Turn Around

‘Top of the Pops showed our video at the end of one show – just as millions of people were tuning in for EastEnders. Soon after, we went to No 1’

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“David Bowie was an absolute genius. I learned more from him than from anybody I’ve ever worked with.” Rick Wakeman’s epic tales of sessions with Bowie, Bolan, Lou Reed and more

Former Yes keyboard maestro Rick Wakeman has played with rock’s great and good over the years – and he’s got the memories to prove it

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“Decent material, often trampled by shoehorning in flamenco motifs, fancy footwork and an over-the-top macho swagger”: Carmen’s The Albums collection

Three-disc retrospective illustrates the promise of a mid-70s band supported by David Bowie and Tony Visconti

Guitar World

“Once in a while, we would start playing a Beatles song, and John would go, ‘Cut that out!’” Session guitar legend Earl Slick on fast times with John Lennon and David Bowie – and saying no to Whitesnake

The venerable session ace has lived a life less ordinary and has the discography to show for it. Earl Slick tells us what it was like to share the stage and studio with music legends

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“Marc felt this imposition of having to come up with another hit album. And fame fuelled that fire”: how Marc Bolan and T. Rex made a glam rock masterpiece with The Slider

The story behind T. Rex’s The Slider and underrated follow-up Tanx – two albums that sealed Marc Bolan as the king of glam rock

What Hi-Fi?

12 of the best David Bowie songs to test your hi-fi system

A selection of the best songs from visionary artist David Bowie that will put your hi-fi system through its paces, and keep you company with some extraordinary music.

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“We felt it was the right time to let someone else get creative enjoyment out of his perfectly kept studio guitars”: Gear from the late Iggy Pop and David Bowie guitarist Ricky Gardiner’s collection goes to auction

These were Gardiner’s go-to instruments in the studio, featuring on later Beggars Opera releases and his solo material, and they’ve been well looked after

Louder

"David Bowie said, I hear you play a mean piano": Rick Wakeman on playing on Space Oddity and Hunky Dory, then turning down David Bowie's invitation to join The Spiders From Mars on the same day he joined Yes

Rick Wakeman was a popular and much in-demand musician in the early '70s, as his friend David Bowie would discover to his cost

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