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Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things musicGet our Now Hear This email for freeAlan Cumming has earnt the praise of fans as he revealed that he was the latest celebrity to return his OBE.The Scottish star of stage and screen announced on Friday (27 January), his 58th birthday, that he had “recently” returned the honour given to him in 2009 for services to the arts and his LGBT+ activism in the US.Writing on Instagram, Cumming explained that recent public…

Here are two widely known facts about John Cale: He was a founding member of the Velvet Underground, and infused the group with its astringent avant-garde sensibility; and he once decapitated a chicken onstage and chucked it at the audience, causing some of his band members to quit. “It was the most effective show-stopper I ever came up with,” he wrote unrepentantly in his 1999 memoir, “What’s Welsh for Zen.”Cale’s place in music history includes not only the first two Velvet Underground albums, but also his production…

Nicolas Cage has been in so many iconic movies – from Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Con Air to Face/Off and National Treasure – and he’s made every character he’s ever played his own. So, what does David Bowie have to do with any of that? It appears that a long time ago, Cage had a chance to ask Bowie for advice, and it was career-changing for the actor. Bowie was such a legendary musician who reinvented himself many times throughout his musical career. His various personas include Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane,…

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things musicGet our Now Hear This email for freeThe 2023 New Year's Honours list has been revealed, with cultural figures including Stephen Graham and Brian May among those acknowledged.This list marks the first published since the late Queen Elizabeth II’s death in September and the first to be signed off by her son King Charles III. A total of 1,107 recipients, 50 per cent of whom are women, make up this year’s list.Other…

The supermodel Iman has opened up about her grief over the loss of her husband, David Bowie, saying she refuses to refer to him as “late”.Vogue Iman coverThe couple were married in 1992. Appearing on the cover of January’s issue of Vogue magazine for the first time, the model, activist and entrepreneur talked about her enduring love for the musician, who died of cancer in 2016.“He is not my ‘late husband’. He is my husband,” she said, before discussing how the couple had managed to retain their independent identities…

And that’s that, but despite being a pretty long trailer, we don’t really get to see too much about the movie, beyond it relying on us caring enough about Rocket Raccoon to see a whole origin story/revenge plot, while once again having to deal with Peter’s feelings for Gamora.No doubt we’ll find out more in the coming months. I hope Rocket kisses that otter though, he does deserve to be happy.Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 will be released in theaters May 5, 2023.Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest…

We tend to think of 1971’s Hunky Dory as the moment David Bowie finally snapped into focus after years of dead ends and false starts. It opens with a song often seen as his mission statement, Changes, with its promise of constant forward motion and undertaking to make pop weird again. It unveiled the brand of glam rock that would send his career stratospheric, on Queen Bitch, and his most celebrated backing band, soon to be renamed the Spiders From Mars. It features a succession of his most indelible songs – Life on…

We exist in a once unimaginable world of musical abundance. The internet means that more or less the entirety of pop history is available to anyone at the touch of a button; more than 100,000 new tracks are uploaded to just one streaming service every day. Complete obscurity has been essentially eradicated: even if a song is too arcane for Spotify or Apple Music or Tidal, it is more than likely someone will have uploaded it to YouTube. Indeed, music is so abundant, the sheer volume on offer can feel overwhelming – where…

David Bowie’s handwritten lyrics to his 1972 song Starman have sold for more than £200,000 (A$334,958) at auction, five times their estimated sale price.The song featured on his fifth album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, which propelled the musician to international rock and pop stardom.The handwritten lyrics, which were originally estimated to fetch up to £40,000 (A$66,991) sold for £203,500 (A$340,819), including buyer’s premium.The lyrics to David Bowie’s Starman. Photograph: Omega…

Article content Moonage Daydream, which screened at TIFF before its Sept. 16 opening in IMAX theatres, is not a conventional rock star bio-pic, but then David Bowie wasn’t a conventional rock star. Article content Instead, director Brett Morgen (The Kid Stays in the Picture, Crossfire Hurricane, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck) gives us a non-linear, intense, kaleidoscope of a film that shines nearly 2 1/2 hours of beautiful light on the artist, his art and spirituality, and what pushed him to constantly challenge…