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Frank Micelotta/Evening Standard-Hulton Archive,Getty Images After a long battle with cancer, disco icon Donna Summer succumbed to the illness today (May 17) at age 63. Her music influenced a long line of her fellow performers, and you might be surprised to learn David Bowie was among those artists.
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Bryan Bedder / Noel Vasquez, Getty Images Well into their third season, the A.V. Club's 'Undercover' series continues to entertain on a regular basis. The format is simple: bands stopping by the site's Chicago headquarters are given the opportunity to perform a cover from a list of 25 songs. But once the song is performed, it cannot be used again. Already this season we've seen the Head and the Heart cover Fleetwood Mac's 'Go Your Own Way' and the Punch Brothers put some bluegrass into the Cars' 'Just What I Needed.'
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David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ has landed firmly in our Top 100 Classic Rock Songs partly because its lead character, Major Tom, has aged exceptionally well -- considering everything he’s been through.
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Bryan Bedder / Gary Merrin, Getty Images Mick Rock, dubbed "The Man Who Shot The '70s," is having his famous photographs of such rock legends as David Bowie, Queen and Iggy Pop displayed across the country in a traveling show called, fittingly, 'Rocked.' The show is being produced and hosted by the W Hotel chain.
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Courtesy of MSO PR The 40th anniversary of David Bowie's iconic and game-changing 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars' was commemorated yesterday (March 27) when the Crown Estate unveiled a plaque which has been placed at 23 Heddon Street. The sign is just off from Regent Street, London, W1, and is where the album's cover photo was actually taken. That fact was little-known, until now, of course. The plaque marks a significant location in British music lore and history.
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Hulton Archive, Getty Images It will be almost 40 years to the day of its original release when EMI releases the newest anniversary edition of the most influential David Bowie album of all time. A remastered version of 1972's 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars' will be released on June 4.
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Jack Kay, Getty Images A vinyl re-issue of David Bowie’s 1972 single ‘Starman’ will get the special treatment on Record Store Day (Apr. 21) when it’s re-released as a limited-edition picture disc.
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David Paul Morris / Dave Hogan, Getty Images After achieving multi-platinum success in the '70s with his massively successful 'Frampton Comes Alive' live album, Peter Frampton later struggled as his career path and record sales declined in the decade that followed.
But in his hour of need, it was an unlikely ally – old friend David Bowie -- who reached out to help.
Read More‘Soul Train’ Creator Don Cornelius Dead at 75 – Watch Elton John and David Bowie Perform on the Show
Frederick M. Brown/Dave Hogan/Getty Images The music world was shocked this morning to the news that Don Cornelius, the creator and host of the legendary 'Soul Train' program, was found dead at age 75 in his Los Angeles home of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot.
Beginning his career as a journalist in Chicago, Cornelius began 'Soul Train' in 1970 on local televisi
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NBC.com A strange and vaguely familiar character was introduced during last night's episode of 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.' The talk-show host married the looks of Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow and early-70s David Bowie into one, glamorous yet reverent character called "Tebowie."
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