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‘You want to reach out and touch everything’: why Labyrinth is my feelgood movie

The latest in our ongoing series of writers paying tribute to their favourite rewatches is a journey back to the 1986 cult fantasy

The Guardian - US

"Once we realised the guys with guns pointed to our heads were cops, we were relieved." The night that armed police gatecrashed David Bowie's end-of-tour party

"A bunch of guys broke down the door, shouting with handguns drawn"

Louder

Placebo's Brian Molko reveals the one question that David Bowie asked all his musician friends

Brian Molko shares David Bowie's words of wisdom, and reveals who he'd like to portray him in a Placebo biopic

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Quote of the Day by popular music icon David Bowie: “The truth is, of course, that there is no journey..."- A cosmic reflection on identity, reinvention, and why life is less about destinations and more about constant becoming by the 'Heroes' singer and the creator of Ziggy Stardust

Rock legend David Bowie's profound quote, 'We are arriving and departing all at the same time,' challenges the notion of life as a linear journey. His philosophy, mirrored in his constant reinvention, suggests existence is a continuous process of transformation, where every new beginning inherently contains an ending. This perspective…

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Everything I know about renovations – after a very steep learning curve!

There's been disbelief and bewilderment, happiness and regret, acceptance and personal growth

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"There’s two days missing from my life. Apparently, we had a really good time!" That time The Cure's Robert Smith went on a 48 hours drinking session with David Bowie's guitarist, then offered him a job

Robert Smith and Reeves Gabrels got together in 1997 to rehearse for David Bowie’s 50th birthday gig, then hit the town to celebrate. Things got messy

Louder

Iconic David Bowie archive to go on UK tour in new exhibition

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V&A’s David Bowie archive to go on tour of UK

Exhibits will include costumes from the singer’s Ziggy Stardust period,

Evening Standard

David Bowie exhibition to tour UK with never-before-seen items

Highlights include original Ziggy Stardust costumes, instruments, and tour sketches

Evening Standard

Saxophones, song charts and a rejected Simpsons script: David Bowie archive to tour the UK

V&A takes exhibition of more than 100 pieces by ‘artist in constant motion’ around Britain, from Dundee to Bristol

The Guardian - UK

Unseen David Bowie archive items to tour UK in major exhibition

More than 100 items related to the iconic musician will go on tour from November

The Independent UK

Pop star Madonna sleeps with a purple stuffed octopus

Madonna has revealed that she sleeps with a purple stuffed octopus.

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Gender-bending is now part of menswear. Paris runways show how mainstream it has become

At Men's Fashion Week in Paris, women were everywhere, walking coed runways and modeling menswear

The Independent UK

"I just couldn’t relate to him at all. I could see that he was thinking, Who is this weird guy?" When David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen first met in 1974, it did not go well at all

On November 25, 1974, David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen met for the very first time at Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia. It was an awkward encounter for both men

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‘I can out-dance Bowie and Jagger!’ Martha Reeves on Motown, Dancing in the Street and smashing crockery with Dusty Springfield

Now 84, the voice of Heat Wave and Jimmy Mack is releasing a new album. She answers your questions on Marvin Gaye, popularising the roundabout and why she hates cover versions of her songs

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In which decade was this drag queen photographed? Find out in the Art Fund museum of the year quiz

In the final instalment of our five quizzes, the V&A Storehouse in London set 15 fiendish questions to test your knowledge of their collection

Louder

"In the studio the baby I picked couldn’t put two gurgles together. I kicked it, I did everything to make it scream, and it really buttoned its lip." The stories behind David Bowie's Labyrinth soundtrack album, now celebrating its 40 anniversary

The five songs David Bowie recorded for Labyrinth were never performed live, but that doesn't mean they weren't special to him, or to fans

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“Sylvian then felt justified in mixing our work alone – which by any other name would be known as hijacking”: The destructive breakdown of a band that reached artistic greatness only to fall apart due to internal tensions – twice!

While Rain Tree Crow was an unlikely second chapter for Japan, its existence proved that their collective talent was too rare to walk away from

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Pop icon Madonna reveals how David Bowie inspired her

Pop star Madonna has discussed her admiration of David Bowie.

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From surprise Foo Fighters and The Prodigy chaos to hip hop, metal and punk rock takeovers, these are the 15 greatest Glastonbury festival performances ever

Glasto is the biggest festival on Earth - and these are its very best moments

The Guardian - AU

From a Shakespeare First Folio to Bowie’s handwriting: inside Mona’s new $100m library of 30,000 books

After 10 years of planning, four years of construction and a budget that blew out almost 10 times over, Phrontisterion is finally open in Hobart

Louder

“The rock business has become so established, and so much like a society, that I have revolted against it." After killing off Ziggy and breaking up the band, David Bowie recorded a covers album in a French castle. This is the story of Pin Ups’ creation

After Aladdin Sane, Bowie recorded Pin Ups to pacify his label – but the critics weren't impressed

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Sneak peek at MONA's $100m underground library

After more than four years of construction, Tasmania's MONA will open its new library containing owner David Walsh's personal collection.

Guitar World

“I’m sick of people saying Walk On the Wild Side is a classic. I got paid £12, and David Bowie didn’t even show up”: Session bass legend Herbie Flowers on the making of Lou Reed’s 1972 hit – and the hardest session he ever did

Having recorded over 20,000 sessions for the likes of David Bowie, Dusty Springfield, T.Rex, Paul McCartney and Elton John, Brian ‘Herbie’ Flowers was not your average bassist

Louder

Syd Barrett 80th birthday celebrations include tribute concert in Cambridge and tribute album featuring Pink Floyd, David Gilmour and more...

A special tribute concert at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, where Syd Barrett played his last ever live show, will take place in October

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