New David Bowie video and EP released to mark his 70th birthday
To commemorate what would have been David Bowie's 70th birthday, a four-track No Plan EP was released along with a music video for the EP's title track, “No Plan.”
The video gives a nod to Bowie's character in The Man Who Fell to Earth and Lazarus, as well as space travel—a theme prevalent in his music.
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Alt Press got a glimpse into Bowie's writing and recording style during a 2001 interview with the performer. He told us, “I don’t think I ever resolve anything on my work. There are inevitably a series of questions in as much as anything else. And they try and capture an atmosphere that I’m living through to a certain extent.”
Watch the video and stream the EP below:
Bowie died Jan. 10 2016 after a long battle with cancer, but his legacy lives on. Many artists in our scene, including Gerard Way and Patrick Stump, credit Bowie for inspiring them.
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In an interview with Alt Press about Bowie's death, Stump says, “As a fan, I expected Bowie to die in a laser bath on Mars, or something. Or perhaps he’d go out nose-first into a literal mountain of cocaine. I didn’t expect him to die of something normal people can die from; he felt like a fully transcendent character who would live forever. There’s a part of me somewhere inside going, 'I really thought he was an actual alien!'… It makes you think about your own mortality in a funny way, because it’s like, 'Oh wow, David Bowie can get cancer? That’s crazy.'”
