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LONDON – NOVEMBER 25: British rock legend David Bowie performs on the first night of the London leg of his tour at Wembley Arena on November 25, 2003 in London. (Photo by Jo Hale/Getty Images) Getty Images Jazz saxophonist and composer Donny McCaslin’s introduction to the work of David Bowie was the massively successful 1983 album Let’s Dance. From there, he became acquainted with other Bowie…

Bowie was probably the most inspiring individual I’ve spent any time with. He came to my Blue Note club night in London a few times when it was very underground and he could be left alone. Then he’d come to the studio, where he’d sing through a haze of cigarette smoke like a gorilla in the mist, or I’d take him to see Dillinja in Brixton to hear drum’n’bass, or we’d spend time in his trailer on…

In the 1990s, David Bowie started assembling an archive of his own career in earnest. There seems something telling about the timing. It happened on the heels of 1990’s Sound+Vision tour, when Bowie grandly announced he was performing his hits live for the final time – a resolution that lasted all of two years. It also followed the bumpy saga of Tin Machine, the short-lived hard rock band that…

David Bowie’s Zaniest & Most Underrated Film Role Is The Linguini Incident

David Bowie’s filmography is one filled top to bottom with hits. Whether it’s the critically-acclaimed The Man Who Fell to Earth, a brief appearance in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, or his performance in Labyrinth that would make the film a cult classic, the Starman’s film career is one that would last nearly as long as his musical one, culminating in over thirty roles across film…