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Patsy Kensit dates at Scott’s, dines at Benihana and gets breathalysed with Mariella Frostrup

The actor and Cool Britannia poster girl on her favourite spots in the capital

Evening Standard

“We did that song, I think, the day that David Bowie died… It just kind of flowed”: Anderson .Paak on how the death of a music legend inspired Dang!, the 2016 pop-rap masterpiece that he would eventually record with Mac Miller

“He sat with it for like, a couple weeks and sent it back,” he says of Miller’s contribution. “He had his verse. He had put horns on it, and that's when I realised, ‘Oh, he's like, a producer, too. He's a real musician’”

MusicRadar

Mark Ronson to be honoured with outstanding contribution award at 2026 Brits

Ronson joins a distinguished list of artists to have won the award, including David Bowie, Oasis and Sir Elton John

The Independent UK

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"The aspects of America that are really magical to us are the things it seems to reject, like black music or the Beat poets": The story of the multi-version David Bowie song that captured his revulsion of American corporate dominance

With input from Trent Reznor and Ice Cube, I'm Afraid Of Americans was rescued from Showgirls ignominy and given a prescient, unnerving video

Louder

2016 Grammys Pics Show Just How Much Fashion Has Changed In 10 Years

"There is a rebelliousness here, but it's about taking control," a fashion expert said while analyzing the current “sheer dress” trend popular among celebrities.

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"I knew something was wrong. I went to the bar and my girlfriend was there with another guy." The dagger-through-the-heart memory which inspired the biggest rock song of its generation

The story behind "the UK's alternative national anthem", inspired by heartbreak, David Bowie and Iggy Pop

Louder

David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God by Peter Ormerod review – the making of a modern saint

An exhilarating account of Bowie’s spirituality and the quasi-religious nature of his work, from Space Oddity to Blackstar

The Guardian - UK

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"I preferred the Chili Peppers' cover to what Guns N' Roses did, but I was really happy about the royalty cheques": Stooges guitarist James Williamson looks back at the proto-punk ass-kicker David Bowie didn't understand

Stooges guitarist James Williamson looks back at this proto-punk ass kicker that opened many a show circa ’73

Louder

"Released under a more credible banner, it would have sold millions and been regarded as brilliant": Sweet rock hard and conjure up a cult classic on Give Us A Wink

Could Sweet still produce after dumping Chinn and Chapman? You bet!

Louder

Life on Mars? Bowie was questing far deeper

Major Tom’s journey from lost spaceman to junkie to alien idol was never about sci-fi cheap thrills

Evening Standard

"I felt like I’d fallen into the bowels of the earth." Fears that witches under the spell of Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page had targeted him to help birth the Antichrist led a paranoid David Bowie to store his bodily fluids in the fridge

A fascination with occult magic did nothing to help David Bowie's sanity in the mid '70s

Louder

“Roger was a bit resentful of the fact that whenever Eric Clapton got up and played a solo, the place would erupt”: Old colleague of Pink Floyd spills the beans on his relationship with band members

Tim Renwick was school friend of Syd and Roger Waters

MusicRadar

‘What did I just watch?’ The TV shows that utterly baffle us – but we can’t switch off

From David Bowie being reincarnated as a kettle to Reese Witherspoon in space, our writers list the TV head-scratchers they can’t get enough of

The Guardian - UK

Tucker Zimmerman death: Folk singer adored by David Bowie dies with wife in fire aged 84

Zimmerman and his wife Marie-Claire Lambert died together in a fire at their home in Belgium

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IKEA's $10 speaker reminded me of my first Bluetooth audio love — and yes, it still makes beautiful music

Remember the Jawbone Jambox? It was an iconic Bluetooth speaker 15 years ago, and probably influenced many of the modern portable speakers, like IKEA's Kallsup.

MusicRadar

“I took inspiration from Iron Maiden’sRun To The Hills. And for the lyric, the story of the last days on Earth, I went back to David Bowie’sSpace Oddity”: A rock band’s global No.1 hit – before grunge turned their world upside down

“We were thrown into this weird pop world – it was madness”

Evening Standard

What went on in London this week: Rockstars descend on Bowie's childhood home

Plus rainy premieres, theatreland parties, and Will Smith sees red

Louder

"We've lasted so long because we were never friends": Fifty years in, Cheap Trick might not hang out with each other, but musical glue binds them together

Cheap Trick's Robin Zander on Anglophilia, AC/DC, and the song no one else wanted on the album

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A Day with David Bowie: how a visit to a psychiatric clinic changed him – and his music

In 1994 the singer and Brian Eno spent a day with ‘outsider’ artists. Intimate photographs, showing in Australia for the first time, reveal the effect it had

The Independent UK

Life on Mars could be returning for new sequel series: ‘I’m sworn to secrecy’

‘The Cortina isn't ready for the scrapyard just yet,’ said co-creator of the time-travel hit

Louder

"My god, we were such impatient boys." How a David Bowie screw-up and some dramatic miming on British TV helped Queen secure their first hit single

The story behind Queen's first Top 10 single

The Independent UK

This Week in History: Communism banned, a voyage to Saturn and a miracle on the Hudson

Explore how major events between 12 and 18 January were captured on The Independent’s front pages

Evening Standard

Working with David Lynch: 'He was a visionary ahead of his time'

As a new David Lynch season hits the BFI Southbank, his producer and collaborator Sabrina Sutherland reveals what it was like to work with the film icon

Evening Standard

Iman pays tribute to late husband David Bowie with Blackstar tattoo

Bowie died aged 69 on January 10 2016.

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Iman marks 10 years since David Bowie’s death with Blackstar tattoo

Iman has paid a touching tribute to her late husband, David Bowie, by getting a minimalist Blackstar-inspired tattoo on the 10th anniversary of his death.

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