David Bowie was so inspired by George Orwell's "1984" that he hoped to write a TV musical based on it. Instead, he recorded ...

The track list for David Bowie’s 1974 album Diamond Dogs offers a couple obvious clues about one source of inspiration: song titles include both “1984” and “Big Brother.” But Bowie didn’t just want to ...

David Bowie could never be told what to do, but nevertheless, there was one album in 1984 that he was begrudgingly forced ...

“It was really badly thought out,” co-producer Hugh Padgham says now. “It was too soon to record it.” Bowie had just finished the Serious Moonlight Tour in December 1983, and by spring of the ...

Bowie dubbed this slice of the record the “glitter apocalypse.” If “1984,” heroic with gusto and Isaac Hayes-esque funk (never much imagined Orwell’s Winston Smith donning a leather jacket and/or ...

It didn't take long for the idea of a local musical tribute honoring David Bowie to pop into the head of Matt Morrissette. After nearly 25 years as a devoted fan, the owner of Wilmington bar-arcade ...