WHERE IS DAVID BOWIE?
NEW SINGLE AND PRE-ORDER OF FIRST NEW ALBUM IN 10 YEARS EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE ON ITUNES NOW
Photo Credit: Jimmy King
PURCHASE THE NEW SINGLE ‘WHERE ARE WE NOW’
PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM ‘THE NEXT DAY’
In the early morning hours of Tuesday the 8th January (US time), Sony Music/Columbia Records released a new single by
David Bowie titled 'Where Are We Now?' exclusively launching in the iTunes Store in 119 countries, including New
Zealand. David Bowie's first new album in ten years and his 30th studio recording, ‘The Next Day’ is also available as a
pre-order on iTunes with a wide release scheduled for March. January the 8th is of course David Bowie's birthday, a
timely moment for such a treasure to appear as if out of nowhere.
Throwing shadows and avoiding the industry treadmill is very David Bowie despite his extraordinary track record that
includes album sales in excess of 130 million not to mention his massive contributions in the area of art, fashion,
style, sexual exploration and social commentary. It goes without saying that he has sold out stadiums and broken ticket
records throughout the world during this most influential of careers.
In recent years radio silence has been broken only by endless speculation, rumour and wishful thinking ....a new
record...who would have ever thought it, who'd have ever dreamed it! After all David is the kind of artist who writes
and performs what he wants when he wants...when he has something to say as opposed to something to sell. Today he
definitely has something to say.
Produced by long term collaborator Tony Visconti, 'Where Are We Now?' was written by Bowie, and was recorded in New
York. The single is accompanied by a haunting video directed by Tony Oursler which harks back to David's time in Berlin.
He is seen looking in on footage of the auto repair shop beneath the apartment he lived in along with stark images of
the city at the time and a lyric constantly raising the question Where Are We Now?
"The moment you know, you know you know" resonates from the new single's lyric. Now we all know...David Bowie has been
in the recording studio...just when we least expected it!!
To view the video for 'Where Are We Now?':
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