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Tucker Zimmerman death: Folk singer adored by David Bowie dies with wife in fire aged 84

Tucker Zimmerman death: Folk singer adored by David Bowie dies with wife in fire aged 84

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Tucker Zimmerman, the folk singer who made his name with his 1969 album Ten Songs by Tucker Zimmerman, has died. He was 84. He and Marie-Claire Lambert, his wife of over 50 years, were killed in a fire at their home in the Belgian town of Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse, outside the city of Liege. His death was announced on Facebook by the acclaimed record producer Tony Visconti, who wrote: “I just received tragic news from Quanah Zimmerman, the son of singer and songwriter Tucker Zimmerman. Tucker and his wonderful wife, Marie-Claire perished in a house fire yesterday.” Visconti, who produced Ten Songs by Tucker Zimmerman, continued: “I am stunned. I met Tucker and Marie-Claire in London, 1967. Tucker was a master musician and songwriter from San Francisco. His songs were biting and revolutionary.” David Bowie often cited Ten Songs by Tucker Zimmerman as one of …

Remembering David Bowie and 2016, a year of enormous loss in showbiz

Remembering David Bowie and 2016, a year of enormous loss in showbiz

Published by Daniella Wilson

One of my friends is a music journalist who has interviewed all the biggest names. I have long delighted in peppering him with questions. Who’s the worst mannered? Who’s really short? Who’s the most charismatic? To that last one, he said straight away: “David Bowie. Always smiling.” His words returned to me in the wintry dawn light of 11 January 2016, when the news arrived that Bowie had died the previous day. I’d been up all night live-blogging the Golden Globe Awards and was about to jump in a taxi to a TV studio. I still got there, but no one cared about the Globes any more. The talk was all of Bowie: what he’d contributed in 50 years of music, what he still meant, why fans across the world were sadly drawing red zigzags on their faces. Unusual for anyone, such an outpouring of affection was remarkable for someone who had completed over half his musical catalogue 35 years before. Of the 26 studio albums that Bowie released during his lifetime, 14 were out …

David Bowie superfans can enjoy new ‘immersive experience’ at legendary singer’s childhood home

David Bowie superfans can enjoy new ‘immersive experience’ at legendary singer’s childhood home

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This The childhood home of David Bowie, where he famously wrote Space Oddity, is set to open to the public as an “immersive experience”. Located at 4 Plaistow Grove in Bromley, south-east London, the property was home to Bowie from age eight to 20. The Heritage Of London Trust has acquired the residence, planning to host creative workshops alongside public access. The house will be meticulously restored to its early 1960s appearance. A never-before-seen archive, aided by Geoffrey Marsh, co-curator of the V&A’s David Bowie Is exhibition, will guide the recreation of its interior as it was during Bowie’s formative years. open image in gallery A young David Bowie outside his house as a child (David Bowie Estate/PA Wire) He said: “It was in this small house, particularly in his tiny bedroom, that Bowie evolved from an ordinary suburban schoolboy to the beginnings of …

Bowie: a true one-off | Radio Times

Bowie: a true one-off | Radio Times

Published by Daniella Wilson

Add David Bowie: the Final Act to your watchlist One of my friends is a music journalist who has interviewed all the biggest names. I have long delighted in peppering him with questions. Who’s the worst mannered? Who’s really short? Who’s the most charismatic? To that last one, he said straight away: “David Bowie. Always smiling.” His words returned to me in the wintry dawn light of 11 January 2016, when the news arrived that Bowie had died the previous day. I’d been up all night live-blogging the Golden Globe Awards and was about to jump in a taxi to a TV studio. I still got there, but no one cared about the Globes any more. The talk was all of Bowie: what he’d contributed in 50 years of music, what he still meant, why fans across the world were sadly drawing red zigzags on their faces. Unusual for anyone, such an outpouring of affection was remarkable for someone who had completed over half his musical catalogue 35 years before. Of the 26 studio albums …

Bowie: The Final Act reassesses one of the musician’s most maligned periods

Bowie: The Final Act reassesses one of the musician’s most maligned periods

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This After the success of his 10-million selling 1983 album Let’s Dance, David Bowie felt, as he put it, “rather rootless”, struggling with the sense that he was being lumped into one, admittedly revered, box. Determined to stick to his chameleonic ways, he flailed both critically and commercially with follow-up albums such as his band’s adventurous self-titled 1989 record Tin Machine and 1993’s The Buddha of Suburbia. One particularly savage review in Melody Maker of 1991’s Tin Machine II closed with the remark, “Sit down, man, you’re a f***ing disgrace,” which Bowie’s longtime PR Alan Edwards told writer John Wilde had reduced the musician to tears. A new Channel 4 documentary now sets out to explore what is described as a “relatively unexamined” period of David Bowie’s musical output as well as the later years building towards his final masterpiece, Blackstar, released days before …

David Bowie: New book reveals lengths ‘heartbroken’ singer went to hide terminal cancer

David Bowie: New book reveals lengths ‘heartbroken’ singer went to hide terminal cancer

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Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This A new book has disclosed the lengths David Bowie went to hide his terminal illness from the world – and claimed he almost died a few years before his 2016 death. The iconic “Ziggy Stardust” singer died aged 69 in January 2016 following a secret fight with cancer, and 10 years on, insiders are recalling their surprise at learning the news while making a new record and stage play with him just months before. According to the biography Lazarus: The Second Coming of David Bowie, the singer is believed to have been diagnosed with liver cancer in 2014 and been told it was inoperable in November 2015. Bowie’s diagnosis inspired his final record, Blackstar, and accompanying stage production, Lazarus – and the singer remained tight-lipped about his situation, only telling those whom it directly impacted. One such person was Lazarus director Ivo van …