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Songs of the Day: One is highly reminiscent of David Bowie’s Fashion, the other has strains of glam rock-era Marc Bolan, but that’s can only mean praise, and this is vibrant, funky and beepingly brilliant work by the artist Jamie Stephen Hall
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Coda for a stellar career? David Bowie’s Blackstar
Song of the Day: Exactly three years ago Bowie released his final album, on his birthday, and two days before he died. Was that opening track a coda for a stellar career, referencing a life’s work, his demons and impending death?
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David Bowie and Ryuchi Sakamoto on the set for Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
Song of the Day: Linking our last entry with not only the recently deceased director Bernardo Bertolucci and also David Bowie, some exquisite music by the great Japanese composer, pianist and actor
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David Bowie in Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth, music by Stomu Yamashta
Song of the Day: With the passing of two great directors, Nicolas Roeg and Bernardo Bertolucci, a beautiful piece of music from a film by the former, starring David Bowie but with music by the Japanese composer
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Louis XiV, featuring frontman Jason Hill (second from left)
Song of the Day: After yesterday's Arctic Monkeys after sun-down, sleazy sex-industry number, we cross the Atlantic again to go down and dirty with with the band from San Diego from their 2005 album The Best Little Secrets Are Kept
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Nat King Cole
Song of the Day: The opening vocals and style of yesterday's 3WW by alt-J, "There was a wayward lad" may spark a musical echo, this beautiful 1948 recording by the jazz pianist and singer, written by the original 'hippie' eden ahbez
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James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem
Song of the Day: From the stronger, later part of James Murphy and co's returning album, American Dream, a powerful cri de coeur about US politics and personal turmoil, with classic dance-punk driving rhythms and riffs, cutting lyrics and here echoing influences of Berlin-era Bowie and early U2.
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A youthful Van Morrison and Them in the mid-60s
Song of the Day: A triple Sunday treat from the early days of Van Morrison and his fellow Belfast boys, showing his raw, powerful voice, anger, lust, and in the final song, the tenderness yet to come
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David Bowie's Pin Ups – a covers album with Twiggy on the cover
Song of the Day: Following yesterday's Jilted John, another song about jealousy and a Pin Ups cover by Bowie of Them's 1965 hit, with some innovative saxophone arrangements
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Carly Simon
Song of the Day: Narcissism is reflected back today with this 1972 classic by the New Yorker, but who is it really about? There are many candidates, but the joke is the song could also be about any of us …
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