Happy Birthday Bowie
Now Playing @6Music celebrates David Bowie's birthday with a listener-led playlist inspired by the Thin White Duke. Plus the first Digital Digest of 2012.
Now Playing celebrates David Bowie's birthday with a listener led playlist inspired by the Thin White Duke. One of the most influential figures in music, David Bowie has excited, inspired, baffled and bewildered his fans in equal measure over his remarkable four decade career.
Displaying a chameleon like talent for reinvention, Bowie has experimented with every musical genre imaginable, from pop and rock via electronica, jazz and even drum n bass. Cited as an influence on every major rock musician over the last 20 years, Bowie's talismanic presence has cast a vast shadow over popular music. His musical silence since 2004's Reality LP only adds to his mystique.
As he celebrates his 65th birthday on 8 January, Now Playing doffs its cap to everything Bowie related, asking the 6 Music audience to curate a playlist of tracks related to the Thin White Duke, from influences, influencees, collaborators and conspirators alongside B-sides, rarities and defining moments.
There's also the first Digital Digest of 2012, we delve into the #now playing stream and, in the final thirty minutes, another blog takes over the show using the #blog6music hashtag.
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David Bowie
Let's Dance
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#Digital Digest
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Michael Kiwanuka
Tell Me a Tale
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#NowPlaying
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Manic Street Preachers
Design for Life
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#NowViewing
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Scissor Sisters
Shady Love
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#MPFree
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Frankie Rose
Know Me
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The Ultimate David Bowie Playlist picked by you
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David Bowie
Queen Bitch
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Mott the Hoople
All the Young Dudes
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Lulu
The Man Who Sold the World
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David Bowie
It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City
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The Pretty Things
Don't Bring Me Down
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Placebo ft. David Bowie
Without You I'm Nothing
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David Bowie
'Helden'
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Pixies - Cactus
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Simple Minds
Chelsea Girl
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David Bowie
The Bewlay Brothers
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Iggy Pop
Nightclubbing
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Flight of the Conchords
Bowie's in Space
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David Bowie
Moonage Daydream
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David Bowie
Hallo Spaceboy (Pet Shop Boys remix) (feat. Pet Shop Boys)
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Arcade Fire
Wake Up
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David Bowie
The Laughing Gnome
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David Bowie
Starman
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Broadcast
- Fri 6 Jan 2012 19:00成人快手 Radio 6 Music