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  David Bowie obituary

  The Guardian

  Until the last, David Bowie, who has died of cancer, was still capable of springing surprises. His latest album, Blackstar, appeared on his 69th birthday on 8 January, and showed that his gift for making dramatic statements as well as challenging, disturbing music had not deserted him. Throughout …

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  Helen Green's reinventions of David Bowie – in pictures

  The Guardian - Kathryn Bromwich

  A lifelong fan of David Bowie, illustrator Helen Green has captured the star’s many reinventions with 29 mini-portraits. The images, which span 50 years from 1964, were put together for Bowie’s 68th birthday this month. “I’ve grown up with Bowie’s music, and many of his albums are my all-time …

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  Bowie was to the 70s what the Beatles were to the 60s

  The Guardian - Dorian Lynskey

  If the Beatles captured a 60s of optimism and love, Bowie was the signature artist of the 70s – distilling paranoia and confusion into pop both euphoric and terrifying David Bowie had no feel for the 1960s. No wonder he floundered. Neither flower-power optimism nor insurrectionary bravado really …

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  Bowie in America: how the US got under the singer's skin, and vice versa

  The Guardian - Alex Needham

  “By the time I got to New York/I was living like a king,” sings David Bowie on Lazarus, his final single and also the title of the theatre work he co-wrote, which opened just last month. Though the creative team behind him were Europeans – Bowie, Irish playwright Enda Walsh and the Belgian director …

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  How the newspapers reacted to David Bowie's death – in pictures

  The Guardian - Guardian Staff

  The musician’s death dominated the front pages on Tuesday. Here is how it was reported

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  Nile Rodgers: 'The first time I listened to David Bowie I was naked on a Miami beach'

  The Guardian

  I remember the first time I ever heard David Bowie’s music because I was naked! Big time! It was in the most romantic, amazing, hippy situation you can think of – I was playing in a club in Miami Beach and they used to have a nude beach there, so this girl who was the night club’s photographer …