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David Bowie: Music
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In 1973 Bowie announced his retirement from live performing, disbanded the Spiders, and sailed to Paris to record Pin Ups (#23, 1973), a collection of covers of mid-’60s British rock. That same year, the 1980 Floor Show, an invitation-only concert with Bowie and guests Marianne Faithfull and the Troggs, was taped for broadcast on the TV program The Midnight Special. Meanwhile, Bowie worked on a musical adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 but was denied the rights by Orwell’s widow. He rewrote the material as Diamond Dogs (#5, 1974) and returned to the stage with an extravagant American tour. Midway though the tour, Bowie entered Philadelphia’s Sigma Sound Studios (then the capital of black music) and recorded the tracks that would become Young Americans (#9, 1975). The session had a major effect on Bowie, as his sound and show were revised.
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Apart from being a sometime brilliant musician and dilettante artist, Bowie's religious perspective and compositional techniques mirror an eloquent fragmentary projection of society. "I'm actually very nineteenth century - a born Romantic" he uttered in 1995. His work resembles that of many European post-romantic novelists and thinkers, such as Hermann Hesse (the Steppenwolf), Gustav Gründgens (his most famous rôle: Mephistopheles in Goethe's Faust) or Aleister Crowley. Indeed, the Gesamtkunstwerk 'David Bowie' crystallises this splintered reality into cultural artifacts, and these in turn coagulate into new realities.
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In 1998 Bowie expanded his business interests by launching the his own internet provider BowieNet, having used the medium the previous year to distribute the first download-exclusive single Telling Lies. The singer ... set in motion the innovative idea of selling "Bowie Bonds", issued on the strength of his projected future royalties. (1999), many of the tracks on which had originally appeared as part of the soundtrack for the video game Omikron: The Nomad Soul. Created in collaboration with Gabrels (who had also made significant input into Bowie's previous two efforts), the release marked the end of the decade-long creative relationship between the two musicians, as the more subdued direction that the music was taking was of little interest to the guitarist.
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For any youngsters or neophytes out there who define David Bowie by his recent regurgitation of currently hip musical styles, a visit to his back catalogue is in order. Recorded during his most fertile and productive period, Hunky Dory is a powerhouse of a record that reminds us that Bowie was once a leader so far ahead of the game that he seemed to be writing the rules as he went along.
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Founded in 1997, Quantic Dream developed Omikron -- The Nomad Soul(TM) for PC and Dreamcast in 1999 and featured original music and acts composed by international star David Bowie. Beginning in 2000 through 2002, Quantic Dream devoted two years in creating the production infrastructure and technology needed to develop code for the next-generation console systems -- Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy will be the first product created using these new and innovative tools. Quantic Dream boosts one of the most advanced state-of-the-art motion capture systems in Europe and offers its services and expertise to the film, television and video game industries. For additional information, please visit http://www.quanticdream.com
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Bowie scored his first truly commercial blockbuster with Let's Dance in 1983, a slick dance album co-produced by Chic's Nile Rodgers. It was a departure from Scary Monsters for which Bowie received a bit of inside criticism;[41] rather than revolting against 1980s dance music, he had in fact joined the scene. The title track went to #1 in the United States and United Kingdom and many now consider it a standard.
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