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HELDEN: DAVID BOWIE UND BERLIN is the title of a brand new book just published in Germany by Rogner & Bernhard (ISBN-10: 3807710310).)
Author Tobias Rüther covers the time period that Bowie spent in Berlin in the late Seventies.)
Belgian pop artist GUY PEELLAERT, whose work includes album covers for DAVID BOWIE and The Rolling Stones and posters for films such as 'Taxi Driver', has died, his agent said Wednesday.)
Guy painted the fabulous artwork for David's 'Diamond Dogs' album and the Mainman promotional posters, as well as the 'Bowie At The Beeb' release in 2000.)
The Brussels-born artist, whose work has been featured in major exhibitions in various cities across the world, was one of the first cartoonists to embrace the Pop Art movement that began in the late 1950s.)
DAVID BOWIE and IMAN were in attendance at the 5th KEEP A CHILD ALIVE Black Ball Charity Event at the Hammerstein Ballroom, in New York City last night.Very sad news to report the passing away of NATASHA L. KORNILOF in Blackheath, London on Tuesday 4th November.
Natasha designed and made many of the stage clothes for DAVID BOWIE shows throughout his career.
Natasha created the dancing spiders outfits for the Rainbow Theatre concerts in August 1972 and the dancers costumers for The 1980 Floor Show in October 1973. She was also responsible for David's outfits on his 1978 world tour including the 'Sailor look' complete with the baggy white pants. Later on she created the Pierrot/Clown costume for Scary Monsters which also famously featured in his Ashes To Ashes video.
David met Natasha whilst they were both involved with the Lindsay Kemp Theatre Group in late 1967, just after she had finished working on the little-known sci-fi pilot for a TV series by ABC Films entitled The Solarnauts. She was also the costume and wardrobe department for the 1976 movie Hamlet that starred Quentin Crisp, Helen Mirren, Tony Meyer, David Meyes and Barry Stanton.
The Ashburnham Triangle Association reported that Natasha was born in India to a Russian father. She grew up in India and in pre-independence Rhodesia, before coming to London to become an outstanding theatrical costume designer.
She was even more inspiring as a teacher, and her students stayed in touch for years. Natasha was passionate and remarkably knowledgeable about the history of her neighbourhood, and was well launched on a second career as a London guide in the years before her death.
Her house in Egerton Drive stood out for the imaginative way she had converted it in the 1970s, the number of cats she kept in it, and the sun-burst of her watercolours on every inch of the walls. But most unforgettable was Natasha's welcome to friends and neighbours, as she dazzled us with her encylopaedic knowledge, and amazed us with often-pointed anecdotes from her adventurous life.
In her will, Natasha requested that her body be left for medical research, so there was no funeral.
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In Chicago this month on Friday 21st November, the holiday season kicks into high gear when the greatest Christmas Special that never was is recreated for the stage by the New Millennium Theatre Company: 'The DAVID BOWIE Hepzikat Funky Velvet Flarney Solstice Spectacular, Live... From Space!' (Or David Bowie's Christmas Special 1977 for short!).)
French MUZIQ magazine Issue 17 (November issue) went on sale on Saturday 25th October and contains a special 10 page feature and front cover features DAVID BOWIE with his collaborators Tony Visconti, Iggy Pop, Carlos Alomar and many more covering the studio recordings of 'Low', "Heroes", 'Lodger' and Iggy Pop's 'The Idiot' and 'Lust For Life'.
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