David Bowie

The Manchester four piece select the top tracks that get them out the door and on the floor...

“Bowie’s Piano Man” is the first ever biography of master of the keyboard, Mike Garson. Author Clifford Slapper explains the personal journey which lies behind the new book.

Shut up Paxman.

You thought Space Oddity was out there? Wait until you get a load of The Laughing Gnome...

The legendary snapper opens his suitcase of stories about Bowie, Iggy, Lou Reed, Kate Moss, Andy Warhol, Snoop and the rest. Yes please...

It's 1977 and David Bowie and Brian Eno are convinced they're about to start a new era in music. Only an Italian producer has beaten them to it...

The 1960s and 70s had Dylan, Lennon, Bowie... A roll call of top musicians with important wider philosophies; modern music needs characters like that back.

With a certain world-beating Montreal band playing London this week as The Reflektors, it got me thinking about the other bands who operated under different names...

After eight years the genre-twisting indie hero has just released a new Dylan-influenced album: it has caused him to reflect both on the success of his own output, and the albums of other great artists...

My old man didn't really have any musical rules, except it had to be good and listened to loud and the time spent in his car as a kid was a vital part of my musical education...

It is the early seventies, I should be at school, getting work was easy then, you had a couple of weeks before they wondered where your paperwork was…

David Bowie's comeback album has been nominated for the Mercury Prize, but is it just me who think he's a bit naff?

From Jacques Brel to Cilla Black, via Iggy, the British icon proves herself a woman of impeccable taste...

The recent BBC documentary and his latest work with Daft Punk has given Nile Rodgers a whole new audience.. Here's 10 of my favourite that he's either performed, written or produced...

The most interesting moments in current culture are looking back, and nobody does that better than The Thin White Duke...

The problem with music now is all it takes for someone to make an track is a Soundcloud account and Garage Band on their Mac. Quality is spread too thin, drowned by the oceans of the hackneyed.

Yes, Bowie's back, but Slade never went away...

With David Bowie's new album released today, we take a look at the belief that he recorded some of the greatest post-krautrock music in history behind the Berlin wall...

Bowie, Lennon, McCartney, Sinatra and Britney Spears all feature on this "50 Songs" rundown from 6 Music radio DJ Marc Riley

The author, painter, death-dodger and adventurer Robin Lee talks us through the sounds that defined him, from The Carpenters to Sex Pistols.

I like the original video for David Bowie's "Where Are We Now?", but I also like Harry Hill's spoof. So which is better? There's only one way to find out...