David Bowie Re-Release Includes James Murphy Remix
Rocker is expanding 'The Next Day' with extra songs, videos      
David Bowie

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By Erin Coulehan
September 30, 2013 9:55 AM ET

David Bowie is expanding The Next Day, his first album in a decade, with extra songs, videos and new remixes, including one by former LCD Soundsystem leader James Murphy. Bowie will release the three-disc collector's edition, The Next Day Extra, on November 5th. The new edition will include the original 14-track album, a second disc with five previously unreleased songs and a DVD with four videos for tunes on the album.

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Murphy lent his talents on a 10-minute remix of "Love Is Lost." The two also worked together recently on Arcade Fire's new single "Reflektor."

Some of the extras, including Murphy's remix, will also be available as a seven-song digital EP available through iTunes.

You can watch the video for "The Next Day" here.

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James Murphy Remixes David Bowie
Former LCD Soundsytem frontman expands 'Love Is Lost' into 10-minute dance opus
     
James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem performs in New York City.
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By Jon Blistein
October 10, 2013 10:50 AM ET

James Murphy's massive 10 minute remix of David Bowie's "Love Is Lost" premiered on BBC Radio 6 this morning, and you can now hear it in full over at Pitchfork (the track will be available to stream on Bowie's website later today, as well).

The former LCD Soundsystem frontman transformed the Next Day track into a slow-burner that starts with incessant click-clack percussion and jittery synth stabs. Halfway through, the track opens up into a steady dance groove -- a close listen hints at what sounds like a piano sample from Bowie's "Ashes to Ashes," but it's actually Murphy's reinterpretation of the classic lick.

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Murphy's reworking of the track will appear on the three-disc deluxe edition of The Next Day, due out November 4th. The new edition will include a DVD and a slew of extras, including five unheard tracks and another brand new remix.

This is the second time Bowie and Murphy have worked together in recent months, with the former lending his vocals to Arcade Fire's "Reflektor," a track that the latter produced.

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DAVID BOWIE NAMED BEST-DRESSED PERSON IN BRITISH HISTORY
by Jeff Giles October 18, 2013



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Hundreds of years’ worth of royals, gentry, and foppish dandies have been bested by a Thin White Duke.

That’s the verdict from BBC History Magazine, anyway. In a recent issue devoted to determining the best-dressed person in all of British history, David Bowie emerged victorious — and it wasn’t even close, with Bowie taking home an impressive 48.5 percent of the vote.

ABC News Radio reports that the 65-year-old Bowie topped an eclectic field of candidates that included Queen Elizabeth I, King Henry III, and Beau Brummell (whose sense of style is so well-known that he was name-checked by Billy Joel in ‘It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me’). “Here was a creative genius who understood art and design, looked cool, inspired us and upset the establishment,” enthused designer Wayne Hemingway, who nominated Bowie for the ballot. “All these attributes lead to things that drive humankind forward…change.”

While it probably seems a little silly to pit Bowie’s changing fashions against kings and queens, he’s undeniably been one of the most image-conscious stars of the rock era, and his constant dabbling with different looks during the ’70s helped lay the groundwork for the more visually driven pop music of the ’80s and beyond — and of course, when he settled into domestic bliss in the ’90s, it was with Iman, one of the world’s reigning supermodels.

Concluded Hemingway, “Bowie has profoundly influenced so many of us. The first concert I went to on my own was David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane tour at King George’s Hall in Blackburn in 1973. After the gig, I went out, got my hair ‘feathered,’ bought a tight-fitting canary yellow T-shirt from Clobber and Bowie’s album from Ames Record Bar. The next day we read in the Evening Telegraph that he [Bowie] had been banned from Blackburn for wearing one of his costume changes — the white sumo knickers. We all wanted to get banned too.”


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David Bowie Shares New Song in 'Next Day Extra' Clip
'Atomica' is one of five new tunes on expanded album      
By
Kory Grow      
October 30, 2013 11:45 AM

David Bowie has shared about half of a new song, "Atomica," in a video showing the contents of his forthcoming release, The Next Day Extra. The mid-tempo, guitar-driven rocker opens with the words, "I'm just a rock star, stabbin' away," and finds Bowie singing, "Let's get this show on the road," in the chorus. It's one of five new songs that will appear on The Next Day Extra, an expanded, three-disc version of his 2013 album The Next Day, that will come out on November 5th.

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In addition to the original version of the album, the expanded release will include 10 bonus songs – five new studio tracks, two remixes (including a 10-minute reworking of "Love Is Lost" by former LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy) and the three songs previously available on the original deluxe version of the album. It also contains a DVD with the music videos for "Where Are We Now?" "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)," "The Next Day" and "Valentine's Day." Finally, it includes exclusive photos and art.

Bowie hasn't said whether the new tracks were part of the original sessions for The Next Day or if they're newly recorded. The singer surprised  fans in January when he announced that he'd been working in secret for two years on The Next Day. Moreover, rather than doing traditional interviews, Bowie's only statement about the record was a "word flow diagram" containing 42 words that, to him, describe the album. He's also kept quiet about whether he will tour in support of the album, though his guitarist told Rolling Stone in February that the odds of a tour were 50-50.

In the meantime, Bowie contributed vocals to Arcade Fire's recently released album, Reflektor. Finally, between today and November 12th, Bowie will have a dedicated station on SiriusXM that will premiere the five songs on The Next Day Extra.

The Next Day Extra bonus disc track list:

"Atomica"
"Love Is Lost ('Hello Steve Reich Mix,' by James Murphy for the DFA)"
"Plan"
"The Informer"
"I'd Rather Be High (Venetian Mix)"
"Like a Rocket Man"
"Born in a UFO"
"I'll Take You There"
"God Bless the Girl"
"So She"

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I want to give him a tootsie pop.

Happy 67th Birthday David Bowie.
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