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David Bowie: The Next Day

On March 8, 2013, “ISO” label released “The Next Day”, the twenty-fifth David Bowie studio album. It was recorded May 2011 – October 2012, at “Magic Shop” and “Human Worldwide” in New York City, and was produced by Tony Visconti and David Bowie.

Personnel:

  • David Bowie – vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards, percussion, string arrangements
  • Tony Visconti – guitar, recorder, strings, bass guitar, string arrangements, engineer, mixing
  • Earl Slick – guitar
  • Gerry Leonard – guitar, keyboards
  • David Torn – guitar
  • Henry Hey – piano
  • Gail Ann Dorsey – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Tony Levin – bass guitar
  • Zachary Alford – drums, percussion
  • Sterling Campbell – drums, tambourine
  • Steve Elson – baritone saxophone, clarinet
  • Maxim Moston – strings
  • Antoine Silverman – strings
  • Anja Wood – strings
  • Hiroko Taguchi – strings
  • Janice Pendarvis – backing vocals
  • Mario J. McNulty – engineer
  • Kabir Hermon – engineer assistant
  • Brian Thorn – engineer assistant
  • Dave McNair – mastering
  • Jonathan Barnbrook – cover design
  • Jimmy King – photography
  • Masayoshi Sukita – original Bowie photography for Heroes

Track listing:

All lyrics by David Bowie, all music by David Bowie, except where noted.

  1. The Next Day
  2. Dirty Boys
  3. The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
  4. Love Is Lost
  5. Where Are We Now?
  6. Valentine’s Day
  7. If You Can See Me
  8. I’d Rather Be High
  9. Boss of Me – David Bowie, Gerry Leonard
  10. Dancing Out in Space
  11. How Does the Grass Grow? – David Bowie, Jerry Lordan
  12. You Will Set the World on Fire
  13. You Feel So Lonely You Could Die
  14. Heat

David Bowie: Black Star

blackstar

On January 8, 2016, “ISO”, “RCA”, “Columbia”, and “Sony” labels released “Black Star”, the twenty-fifth and final David Bowie studio album. It was recorded in 2015, at “The Magic Shop” and “Human Worldwide Studios”, in New York City, and was produced by David Bowie and Tony Visconti.  The album was voted Best album of 2016, in the annual choices by many medias including The A.V. Club, Mojo, Newsweek, Paste, Q, Rolling Stone (Readers Poll), Uncut and The Wire Magazine. “Black Star” became Bowie’s only album to top the “Billboard 200” in the United States, and it remained at the number one position in the UK charts for three weeks. The album was certified Platinum in Australia by “ARIA”; in Austria by “IFPI”; in Belgium by “BEA”; in Canada by “Music Canada”; in France by “SNEP”; in Italy by “FIMI”, and in UK by “BPI”.

Personnel:

  • David Bowie– vocals, acoustic guitar, “Fender Guitar”, harmonica, string  arrangements, mixing
  • Ben Monder– guitar
  • Jason Lindner– piano, organ, keyboards
  • Tim Lefebvre– bass
  • Mark Guiliana– drums, percussion
  • James Murphy– percussion
  • Donny McCaslin– flute, saxophone, woodwinds
  • Tony Visconti– strings, engineer, mixing
  • Kevin Killen– engineer
  • Erin Tonkon – backing vocals, engineer assistant
  • Kabir Hermon – engineer assistant
  • Tom Elmhirst– mixing
  • Joe Visciano – mixing assistant
  • Joe LaPorta– mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by David Bowie, except where noted.

  1. Blackstar
  2. Tis a Pity She Was a Whore
  3. Lazarus
  4. Sue (Or in a Season of Crime) – David Bowie, Maria Schneider, Paul Bateman, Bob Bharma
  5. Girl Loves Me
  6. Dollar Days
  7. I Can’t Give Everything Away

David Bowie: Heathen

Heathen

On June 11, 2002, “ISO” label released “Heathen”, the twenty-second David Bowie studio album. It was recorded October 2000 – January 2002, and was produced by David Bowie, Tony Visconti, Mark Plati, Gary Miller and Brian Rawling.

Personnel:

  • David Bowie – lead and backing vocals,  keyboards,  guitars,  saxophone,  stylophone, drums
  • Carlos Alomar– guitar
  • Pete Townshend– guitar
  • Dave Grohl– guitar
  • Gerry Leonard– guitar
  • Mark Plati– guitar, bass guitar
  • David Torn– guitars, guitar loops, Omnichord
  • Kristeen Young– vocals, piano
  • Jordan Rudess– keyboards
  • Tony Levin– bass guitar
  • Tony Visconti– bass guitar, guitars,  recorders,  string  arrangements, backing vocals
  • Matt Chamberlain– drums, drum loop programming, percussion
  • Sterling Campbell– drums, percussion
  • The Borneo Horns:
  • Lenny Pickett
  • Stan Harrison
  • Steve Elson
  • Lisa Germano– violin
  • The Scorchio Quartet:
  • Greg Kitzis –1st violin
  • Meg Okura– 2nd violin
  • Martha Mooke –viola
  • Mary Wooten –cello
  • Jonathan Barnbrook– design
  • Markus Klinko, Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri – photography
  • GK Reid– styling

Track listing:

All tracks by David Bowie, except where noted.

  1. Sunday
  2. Cactus – Black Francis
  3. Slip Away
  4. Slow Burn
  5. Afraid
  6. I’ve Been Waiting for You – Neil Young
  7. I Would Be Your Slave
  8. I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spaceship – Norman Carl Odam
  9. 5:15 The Angels Have Gone
  10. Everyone Says Hi
  11. A Better Future
  12. Heathen – The Rays