Bowie’s Irish roots run very deep. Born David Jones in 1947, Bowie’s mother’s maiden name was Peggy Burns. Like so many others in post-Famine Ireland, Peggy Burns’ paternal grandparents were Irish ...

David Bowie exploded on the scene in 1972 and it caught the world off guard. But his glam rock influences can be traced to ...

As 2024 draws to an end, our celebrity reporter looks back at one of her favourite interviews of the year- that with Blackpool’s Chris Lowe from the Pet Shop Boys.

David Bowie was captivated by a number of things as his artistic ... The introduction offered a seemingly endless array of possibilities. Adding: “Something like ‘Ashes to Ashes’ wouldn’t have ...

In Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke, Aladdin Sane, Halloween Jack and a parade of others, David Bowie tried on a lot of ... in Marcel Carné’s 1945 film Les Enfants du Paradis. And Ashes to Ashes ...

The opening song is an essential factor in a rock album's success, and some were so good that the record never again reached ...

The show has introduced me to some of my now all-time favourite songs through its often-humorous placement of them: Eddie and the Hot Rods’ ‘Do Anything You Wanna Do’; David Bowie’s ‘Ashes to Ashes’; ...

Chicago’s Califone rose from the ashes of rootsy, bluesy Red Red Meat ... album showing everybody how you can turn the genius of David Bowie into something new, fresh, and quite personal and ...

Not that he ever intended to double back on himself, but there is one era in particular that Bowie never wanted to revisit.