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New releases for the week of the 6th of January, 2017.

Only four albums sold over one million units in the USA during 2016 with Adele ‘25’ the biggest seller.

2016 has proven that the best PR you can do to drive music sales is to die.

Keyboardist Rick Wakeman is about to release an album that he has always dreamed of doing, a full solo piano album that covers genres from rock to classical.

David Bowie was too busy to star as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings.

In a remarkable display of stupidity David Bowie ‘Blackstar’ has not been nominated by Grammy Album of the Year but Justin Bieber ‘Purpose’ has.

“Ground control to Major Tom” indeed. In a remarkable coincidence astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon, has been treated by Dr David Bowie in a New Zealand hospital after being evacuated from the South Pole.

Long time members of David Bowie’s live and recording band will gather in Sydney in January with Australia’s Bernard Fanning, Sarah Blasko and Paul Dempsey to perform the music of David Bowie, David Bowie style.

David Bowie was planning to make another album before losing his battle with cancer, according to saxophonist Donny McCaslin.

Kate Bush has paid tribute to the “bravery and power” of late singer David Bowie.

Gary Oldman and other friends of David Bowie are to celebrate the late rock icon with a concert in his hometown on his 70th birthday.

Australia’s Mick Harvey has gathered a band to honour David Bowie’s Berlin years with the ‘Bowie In Berlin’ Australian tour.

Three new David Bowie songs recorded during the ‘Blackstar’ sessions but held back for the Lazarus stage show debuted this week with the final track ‘Killing A Little Time’ available today.

With ‘David Bowie Nothing Has Changed’ producer Amanda Pelman has created a timeless and tasteful tribute to the genius of David Bowie.

The death of David Bowie in January has promoted one of the most remarkable tribute shows in Australia.

Even though there are a number of hits collections from the great David Bowie already on the market, Legacy Recordings has decided that a new one is needed that will take Bowie from his earliest days up through his final album.

Thieves have stolen a plaque from the wall of David Bowie’s Berlin, Germany home just weeks after it was unveiled.

Skepta has beaten out eleven other nominees, including David Bowie and Radiohead, for the Mercury Prize.

As the November 8 UK opening of Lazarus at London’s King Cross Theatre approaches, the cast and band of the original New York production will release their versions of the David Bowie songs from the show as the Lazarus Cast Album October 21 on ISO / RCA Records.

Green Day will release their new song ‘Bang Bang’ in coming days.

David Bowie received a posthumous nomination for the Mercury Prize.

‘David Bowie Nothing Has Changed’, featuring iOTA, Tim Rogers, Steve Kilbey, Deborah Conway & Adalita and backed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, will be performed at Hamer Hall for two nights of the Melbourne Festival in October.

The world’s biggest rock band Rockin’ 1000 have gathered at a stadium in Italy to perform the David Bowie classic ‘Rebel Rebel’.

The musicians that backed David Bowie on his final album, Blackstar, have reformed to record an album saluting the late singer.

On September 23, Parolphone will release the new twelve-CD box set David Bowie: Who Can I Be Now?

An audio file of David Bowie rehearsing for the 1995 ‘Outside’ tour has surfaced on Soundcloud.

David Bowie fans will finally get to own ‘The Gouster’ when his next box set is released soon.

To mark the 40th anniversary of the UK release of director Nicolas Roeg’s iconic science fiction odyssey, The Man Who Fell to Earth, STUDIOCANAL has announced that they are near to completing a new 4k restoration of the cult classic.