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A Perceptive Headline About David Bowie
Jordan Sargent · 01/15/16 06:31PMUK's Celebrity Big Brother Produced the Most Incredible Reaction to David Bowie's Death
Jordan Sargent · 01/13/16 09:30AMDavid Bowie Was Too Weird For '70s TV
Rich Juzwiak · 01/11/16 03:29PMDavid Bowie’s perpetual stylistic reinvention (don’t call him a chameleon) became a standard many pop stars would come to adopt. To put his visionary genius in perspective, we assembled a reel of ‘70s and ‘80s TV clips, highlighting the ways in which Bowie’s shape-shifting tendencies were marveled at, questioned, and explained by the man himself.
Brands Keep Swinging
Alex Pareene · 01/11/16 03:17PMThe New York Times Wishes It Were Dead
Gabrielle Bluestone · 01/11/16 01:01PMRemember When David Bowie Got Busted for Pot With Iggy Pop in Hell, AKA Rochester, New York?
Gabrielle Bluestone · 01/11/16 10:38AMDavid Bowie Dead at 69
Brendan O'Connor · 01/11/16 02:30AMAstronaut Chris Hadfield's Cover of "Space Oddity" Comes Down Today
Jay Hathaway · 05/13/14 03:37PMThis “Space Oddity” Cover From the Space Station Is Amazing
Taylor Berman · 05/12/13 06:39PMCanadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has spent the past five months as the commander of Expedition 35 aboard the International Space Station. While in space, he's made sandwiches, washed his hands, and wrung water from a wet towel. But on Sunday afternoon, Hadfield provided the internet with his most amazing video yet: a cover of David Bowie's 1969 classic, “Space Oddity.”
Bowie and Timberlake: Who Came Out of Retirement Better?
Mallory Ortberg · 01/12/13 03:10PMDavid Bowie Releases New Single, Announces First Studio Album in 10 Years
Neetzan Zimmerman · 01/08/13 08:28AMToday may be David Bowie's 66th birthday, but it's his fans who are getting the gifts.
What's New in Music
Remy Stern · 10/24/11 03:46PMChris Brown Escapes Arrest for Window-Busting Tantrum
Maureen O'Connor · 03/23/11 10:20AMHomeless Man with Two Kermit Puppets Performs "Under Pressure"
Matt Cherette · 10/04/10 12:03PMFinally, The Scent of the High Line in a Bottle
Brian Moylan · 02/26/10 04:23PMDo You Remember the Bills You Have to Pay?
John Cook · 02/02/10 10:42AMMorgan Stanley Exec Buys; Annie Leibovitz Looks to Sell
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• Guy Metcalfe sold his apartment at 15 Central Park West last May for $11 million. Now the co-head of Morgan Stanley's real estate investment banking group and his wife, Lisa, have picked up a new, slightly more modest abode. The couple has paid $6.125 million for a 12th-floor, four-bedroom apartment at 90 Riverside Drive. [Cityfile, Corcoran]
• Iris Marden, the ex-wife of retail heir James Marden and a broker at Stribling, has sold her penthouse at 7 Hubert Street. The three-bedroom apartment, which once appeared on the cover of Architectural Digest and first went on the market for $14.5 million in January 2009, sold for $11.5 million. [Cityfile]
Happy Birthday
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David Bowie turns 63 today. Fashion designer Carolina Herrera is turning 71. Everyone's favorite British theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, is 68. Robert Kelly (or R. Kelly to you and me) is turning 43. Sean Paul is 37. Baseball players Jason Giambi and Carl Pavano are 39 and 34, respectively. Actress Sarah Polley is 31. Wolfgang Puck is turning 61. DJ Clue is 35. Susan Berresford turns 67. Composer David Lang is 53. And legendary game show host Bob Eubanks turns 72 today. A few weekend birthdays are below.
Bing Crosby & David Bowie's Little Drummer Boy
Whitney Jefferson · 12/18/09 11:00AMTwo great musicians get together and make a great song. Too bad the banter in the beginning of this music video leans more towards forced-and-boring than natural-and-cute.