The DAVID BOWIE PLATINUM x4 compilation album LEGACY has today reached the milestone of 500 WEEKS of placements in the Official UK Albums Chart Top 100.

First released on 11th November 2016, it reached the following positions in the UK End of Year Charts: 2025 #66 / 2024 #59 / 2023 #52 / 2022 #39 / 2021 #42 / 2020 #35 / 2019 #43 / 2018 #41 / 2017 #41 / 2016 #60.

In the Decade-End Chart (2010-2019) it reached #17 in the UK Vinyl Albums and the All-Time Chart (2015-2025) at #5 in the UK Vinyl Albums.

This album collects together a selection of David Bowie's most popular tracks and singles, from 1969's 'Space Oddity', through to the final singles 'Lazarus' and 'I Can't Give Everything Away'.

You can check out all the Legacy chart placements worldwide over in the Special Features section.

Also MODERN LOVE has just achieved PLATINUM status on 26th June in the UK BRIT Certified Awards Programme.

On this day, 53 years ago, DAVID BOWIE laid to rest his persona 'Ziggy Stardust' / 'Aladdin Sane' and retired from live concert performing.

At the time, the vast majority of fans didn't realise it was Ziggy and not David himself announcing on stage the now legendary statement from the Hammersmith Odeon:

"Everybody... this has been... one of the greatest tours of our life we really... at first I'd like to thank the band... I'd like to thank our road crew and I'd like to thank our lighting people. Er, of all of the shows on this tour, this, this particular show will remain with us the longest because... not only is it... not only is it the last show of the tour, but it's the last show that we'll ever do. Thank you."

• On this day, 24 years ago, DAVID BOWIE performed at the Quart Festival at Odderøya, Kristiansand in Norway in 2002...

• On this day, 30 years ago, DAVID BOWIE performed at Ha-Yarkon Park, Tel Aviv, Israel in 1996...

• On this day, 37 years ago, TIN MACHINE performed at The Forum, Livingston, Scotland in 1989...

• On this day, 38 years ago, DAVID BOWIE performed at Parc Départemental de la Courneuve, Paris, France during his Glass Spider World Tour in 1987...

• On this day, 43 years ago, DAVID BOWIE performed the last of three sold-out dates at the Milton Keynes Bowl, Buckinghamshire, England during his Serious Moonlight Tour '83. This venue was a former clay-pit, filled in and raised to form an amphitheatre which holds a capacity of 65,000 peoploids...

• On this day, 52 years ago, DAVID BOWIE performed at Seminole Jai-Alai Fronton in Casselberry, Orlando, Florida, USA during The Year of The Diamond Dogs tour in 1974...

• On this day, 53 years ago, (and into the next morning till 5am) DAVID BOWIE held an after-show party (commonly known as 'The Last Supper') at the Café Royal, on Regent Street, London, England in 1973...

• On this day, 60 years ago, DAVID BOWIE & THE BUZZ performed at the Marquee Club, in Wardour Street, Soho, London, England in 1966...

• Happy Birthday wishes to Canadian guitarist STACY HEYDON...

The V&A and partner venues across the UK announce a landmark national tour celebrating the creativity and enduring cultural impact of DAVID BOWIE.

DAVID BOWIE: ON TOUR will travel to venues across the UK across multiple years.

The V&A Dundee is the first venue to stage the V&A's new UK-wide touring archive.

Bringing together around 100 highlights from the V&A's David Bowie archive - many that have never been on public display before - David Bowie: On Tour will offer a rare glimpse into Bowie's creative process and enduring impact.

Across four sections, discover the behind-the-scenes story of how he created his ever-evolving iconic image, music and screen work.

Highlights include legendary costumes, musical instruments and career-spanning photography, plus never-before-seen items including Polaroids for make-up and costume fittings, a Ziggy Stardust-era acoustic guitar, unrealised scripts, handwritten lyrics, performance notes and costumes from Bowie's final albums, The Next Day and ★ (Blackstar).

Tickets will go on sale in late September with priority booking for V&A Dundee Members.

Venue: V&A Dundee (Gallery 2)
Address: 1 Riverside Esplanade, Dundee DD1 4EZ, Scotland
Tickets: on sale September
Opens: 4th November 2026 - until 15th February 2027.
Website: vam.ac.uk/dundee

About David Bowie: On Tour

Section 1

The opening section, 'Bowie Through a Lens', explores how photography shaped Bowie's image and identity, featuring work by Terry O'Neill, Mick Rock, Sukita, Brian Ward and more.

Section 2

The second section, 'All the Somebody People' focuses on Bowie onstage and in the studio across four defining eras, revealing how he continually reinvented his sound and personas:

Ziggy Stardust offers a case study in Bowie's songwriting prowess and how he crafted his iconic persona, from Freddie Burretti and Kansai Yamamoto costumes to Bowie's handwritten notes and cut-ups plotting the album, sketches for the tour, and a seminal acoustic guitar from the era - on display for the first time.

Bowie's Berlin years highlight his pioneering use of techniques and recording equipment in the studio with Tony Visconti and Brian Eno for albums Low (1977), "Heroes" (1977), and Lodger (1979). From Bowie's keys to his apartment at Hauptstraße 155, Berlin, to his unseen sketches and concept art for the cover of Low, handwritten lyrics for Lodger's 'Look Back In Anger', and the koto, the Japanese musical instrument, used by Bowie on 'Moss Garden' from "Heroes".

Let's Dance reveals how Bowie created the blueprint for major stadium tours, with a series of unseen lyrics and a set design for the Serious Moonlight Tour '83 on show for the first time, alongside photography of studio recording sessions and the album's cover shoot.

★ (Blackstar) explores Bowie's symbolism in recalling previous eras through his final recording, with items including Bowie's handwritten lyrics for the song ★ (Blackstar), and hand-painted costume for the 'Lazarus' music video, alongside performance notes and props, giving never-before-seen insight into the album's creation.

Section 3

The third section, 'Hooked to the Silver Screen', reveals Bowie's groundbreaking performances on screen, from him pushing the boundaries with his approach music videos to his iconic film and TV roles and unexpected cameos. Highlights include:

Bowie's storyboard sketches and the Natasha Kornilof-designed costume for his 'Ashes To Ashes' music video (1980) to his collaborations with Flora Sigismondi for the 'Little Wonder' music video (1997) and unseen video treatments, scripts and props for 'The Stars Are Out Tonight' video for The Next Day album (2013).

Contact sheets from Bowie's first ever film set, The Image (1967), the clapperboard used for The Man Who Fell To Earth (1975), his unseen prep-notes for Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence (1983) and his script, character notes and Polaroids of costume fittings for his character Jareth in the 1986 fantasy film, Labyrinth - along with Polaroids of other make up tests.

Bowie's further onscreen moments including this role as narrator for The Snowman (1982), his star turn as Lord Royal Highness in 2006's SpongeBob SquarePants movie alongside a script for an episode of The Simpsons that Bowie politely declined.

Section 4

The final section, 'I Can't Give Everything Away', explores Bowie's interest in time, documenting his process and legacy. The items and personal possessions that Bowie chose to keep in his archive are revealing, showing a creative mind constantly thinking about the next project. Highlights include:

Musical instruments and equipment, including Bowie's first instrument, the Grafton Alto saxophone bought for him by his father in 1961 and the harmonica microphone used on his last live tour (A Reality Tour, 2003-2004)

Personal items, such as fan art, the stopwatch he used when songwriting, his 1988 British passport and his advance copy of The Velvet Underground's 1967 'I'm Waiting For The Man' record. Other items include handwritten to-do lists with the workshops, interviews and museum visits Bowie had planned, charts revealing the projects he wanted to achieve - and those that went unrealised, such as Bowie's handwritten synopsis for a proposed TV film called The Catastrophy Cabinet dating to around 1974-1975.

Items revealing Bowie organising his thoughts and planning for the future span his 1977 inventory of costumes to documents revealing his thought process and how he saw the music industry evolving, the song chart he used during the Earthling tour (1997) and post-it note conversations with his archive team about items he chose to hold on to.

David Bowie: On Tour has been developed by V&A Touring and V&A National Programmes, in collaboration with partner venues across the UK, and is curated by Harriet Reed, Curator of Contemporary Performance at the V&A.

After V&A DUNDEE, the tour continues to Showtown BLACKPOOL (30th June 2027 to 26th September 2027), Bowes Museum in COUNTY DURHAM (October 2027 to January 2028), Ferens Art Gallery in HULL (February 2028 to May 2028), BRISTOL Museum and Art Gallery (1st June 2028 to 30th September 2028).

David Bowie: On Tour has been developed by V&A Touring and V&A National Programmes, in collaboration with partner venues across the UK, and is curated by Harriet Reed, Curator of Contemporary Performance at the V&A.

The David Bowie archive was acquired by the V&A in 2024 through the generosity of the David Bowie Estate, the Blavatnik Family Foundation and Warner Music Group. It comprises more than 90,000 items spanning Bowie's extraordinary career, from iconic costumes and musical instruments to handwritten lyrics, photography, stage designs and personal papers. Visitors can book free one-to-one appointments with items from David Bowie's archive through the V&A's Order an Object and Archives Appointment services and also visit the David Bowie Centre - the archive's permanent home - at V&A East Storehouse as part of East Bank in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Read '5 things to know about the V&A's David Bowie: On Tour' - [Read here].

(Ed: Check out a promo film of David Bowie: On Tour via news.com.au website).

FACTORY INTERNATIONAL present THE LIGHTROOM production DAVID BOWIE: YOU'RE NOT ALONE which is coming to Manchester, showing at North Warehouse, Aviva Studios, Water Street, Manchester M3 4JQ from 8th December 2026 until 10th January 2027.

Be transported into the many worlds of David Bowie. Through iconic performances, rarely-seen interviews and never-before-exhibited material, discover the creative mind, spirit and soul of one of the world's greatest, most visionary artists.

Featuring Bowie himself as its sole voice, David Bowie: You're Not Alone is both a multimedia spectacle and an intimate self-portrait.

The show brings together iconic performance footage, rarely heard interviews and never-before-seen material selected from thousands of hours of film in the vaults of the David Bowie Archive in New York.

From Space Oddity through Diamond Dogs and "Heroes" to ★, David Bowie: You're Not Alone is a celebration of Bowie's boundless curiosity as a force that connected people across continents and generations, as well as his enduring cultural impact today.

A combination of performance footage, photography, drawings, lyrics, personal notes, sketches and narration from Bowie come together to craft the most vivid, detailed and immersive visual exploration yet of the iconic artist's life and work.

Using the incredible Lightroom visual technology and spatial audio behind David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away), The Moonwalkers and VOGUE: Inventing the Runway, this 360 degree immersive experience sees Bowie invite you into his many worlds.

Whether you're reliving the magic or discovering it for the very first time, this is your ticket to the landmark Bowie performances that changed culture forever.

For more details, tickets and information, please visit factoryinternational.org website.

Also in London now extended until 10th January 2027 at Lightroom, 12 Lewis Cubitt Square, Kings Cross, London - more details

Published this month (now 31st July) is CONSTELLATION "HEROES": Tracing David Bowie's Berlin Album Song By Song by HANS MEERTENS.

Synopsis: Constellation "Heroes" traces David Bowie's 1977 album as the centre of a wider orbit: a charged zone of resonance and cultural signal. Analytical, imaginative and historically attuned, the book maps a web of connections from Chris Burden to Blackstar, from Tokyo to German Expressionism, from Cold War unease back to Bromley. Framed by Bowie's Berlin era, it unfolds track by track, linking sonic detail to lyrical shape and production to artistic intent, following the currents that infused the record.

It explores the modernist artefact as a site of fracture and invention, between East and West, past and future, voice and persona. It considers how meaning unfolds through sound and staging, language and gesture, and how Bowie channels temporal tension into a force both intimate and unstable. Rather than fixing its meaning, it opens multiple pathways through the album, allowing "Heroes" to emerge as luminous and unresolved.

For readers drawn to Bowie's Berlin years, including The Idiot, Low, Lust For Life, Lodger and the Isolar II Tour, this is an immersive and deeply considered inquiry into one of his most enduring creative periods. "Heroes" becomes a prism of identity and dislocation, still transmitting from the city that shaped it: volatile, elusive, alive.

About the Author: Hans Meertens is a Dutch artist, writer and illustrator whose work is shown internationally and held in private, museum and corporate collections. He studied fine art in the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands, and refined his practice through residencies in New York City. After teaching art in Amsterdam, he now mentors art academy students with additional support needs, volunteers with the foundation Drawing for Children, and makes music on the side in a post-rock band. He is the author of On Track... Iggy Pop 1977-1999: Every Album, Every Song, a detailed survey of Iggy's solo output from that era. A long-time admirer of David Bowie, he turns his focus in this book to a defining work at the heart of his enduring fascination with Bowie's universe.

This 176-page paperback is to be published on 31st July and is available to pre-order NOW!

Taking place this month on Saturday 11th July is THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST reimaged starring David McAlmont, Brian Molko, Camille O'Sullivan, Peaches and Nadine Shah at the Royal Festival Hall, London SE1 8XX, England at 7.30pm.

DAVID BOWIE's defiant fifth album is reimagined in incandescent fashion by David McAlmont, Brian Molko, Camille O'Sullivan, Peaches and Nadine Shah.

Fiona Brice arranges and orchestrates Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars with a stellar line-up of guest vocalists.

Released in 1972, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars is Bowie's seminal glam rock concept album. It follows Ziggy Stardust, an androgynous, bisexual, extra-terrestrial rock star sent to Earth as a messiah before an impending apocalypse.

The show features some of the album's greatest songs, performed in spectacular fashion, by a line-up including: remarkable art-pop vocalist, David McAlmont; the lead singer and guitarist of Placebo, Brian Molko; singer and master of musical reinterpretation, Camille O'Sullivan; the fearless musician, producer, director and performance artist, Peaches; and Mercury Prize-nominated songwriter and musician, Nadine Shah.

Fiona Brice is a British solo artist, classically trained composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist (violin, viola, piano and voice).

Beth Greenacre is the visual director of this event. Greenacre is a curator, advisor and consultant with over 20 years of experience collecting artworks for private and corporate collectors, commercial and non-for-profit organisations. Greenacre worked with David Bowie as curator of his art collection for more than 16 years.

For more details, information and tickets, please visit southbankcentre.co.uk website.

For those of you who use FACEBOOK - check out the private DAVID BOWIE WONDERWORLD Group.

Feel free to join in with the other 105,700 plus members, add yourself and invite your Bowie fan friends. You never know what might get posted, or who you might meet...

HOLY HOLY announce their 2026 Tour - The Final Tour - 'A Celebration of Bowie'.

Gigs will take place at the following venues:

SEPTEMBER
3rd: Glasgow O2 Academy
4th: Leeds O2 Academy
5th: Liverpool O2 Academy
8th: Oxford O2 Academy
9th: Southampton 1865
10th: London O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire
11th: Bristol O2 Academy
12th: Manchester O2 Ritz
16th: Birmingham XOY
17th: Newcastle-upon-Tyne O2 City Hall
19th: Hull Connexin Live
20th: Lytham St Annes Lowther Pavilion
21st: Salisbury City Hall
23rd: Netherlands Haarlem, PHIL
24th: Belgium, Lueven Het Depot
27th: Ireland Dublin The Academy
28th: Ireland Dublin The Academy
29th: Belfast The Limelight 1

More details and tickets available via the Ticketmaster.co.uk website.

• Exhibition V&A DAVID BOWIE: ON TOUR will show in Dundee (4th Nov - 15th Feb 2027), Blackpool (30th June - 26th Sept 2027), County Durham (Oct 2027 - Jan 2028), Hull (Feb 2028 - May 2028), Bristol (1st June 2028 - 30th Sept 2028), with more to be announced - more details

• Exhibition V&A DAVID BOWIE: ON TOUR in DUNDEE at V&A Dundee (Gallery 2), 1 Riverside Esplanade, Dundee DD1 4EZ, Scotland from 4th November until 15th February. Open daily 10.00-17.00, (closed 25th/26th Dec and 1st Jan). Tickets will go on sale in late Sept - more details

• DAVID BOWIE: YOU'RE NOT ALONE shows at North Warehouse, Aviva Studios, Water Street, Manchester M3 4JQ, England from 8th December 2026 until 10th January 2027. Booking for general tickets begins Thursday 18th June - more details

• DAVID BOWIE: YOU'RE NOT ALONE opened on 22nd April now extended until 10th January 2027 at Lightroom, 12 Lewis Cubitt Square, Kings Cross, London - more details

• BOWIE: LIVE ON THE LOCH charity two-day event with David Bowie's band from 2000 at Cameron House, Loch Lomond, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland G83 8QZ on 7th/8th November. In aid of Save The Children - more details

• DAVID BOWIE: MUSIC LOVER: The Inside Story of David Bowie's Record Collection by GEOFF MacCORMACK and JÉRÔME SOLIGNY, hardcover, 224-pages - to be published on 15th September - more details

• HOLY HOLY 2026 Tour - The Final Tour - 'A Celebration of Bowie' gigs in September - tickets on sale now - more details

• CONSTELLATION "HEROES": Tracing David Bowie's Berlin Album Song By Song by HANS MEERTENS, paperback, 176-pages - published on 31st July - more details

• THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST reimaged starring David McAlmont, Brian Molko, Camille O'Sullivan, Peaches and Nadine Shah at the Royal Festival Hall, London SE1 8XX, England on Saturday 11th July at 7.30pm - more details

• Exhibition BOWIE ODYSSEY at Forum Gambetta, 23 Bd Gambetta, 62100 Calais, France, opens 4th July until 16th August, FREE ADMISSION, open 2pm-6pm, closed Mondays - more details

HEROES: DAVID BOWIE AND BERLIN by TOBIAS RÜTHER, paperback, 184-pages - published on 1st July - more details

Exhibition: BOWIE MIO FRATELLO di David Lawrence, features photographs by Philippe Auliac, Denis O'Regan and more at Spazio Musa, Via della Consolata, 11, 10122 Torino, Italy. Opened 17th April until 12th July, open 11.00-18.00, closed Mondays - more details

Photo Exhibition: BOWIE BY SUKITA in Sweden, Gothenburg, at the former Konsthallen, Gotaplatsen 7 opened 11th April until 30th August - more details

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY exhibition 'Cosmic Voyager - A Tribute to David Bowie' opened 3rd April until 30th August in the Nathan and Fannye Shafran Planetarium, shows daily at 4pm (except Mondays) - more details

All numbered copies SOLD OUT! Handful of unnumbered copies remaining. DAVID BOWIE - THE YEAR OF THE SCAVENGER luxury collector's book from MAYAK PUBLISHING covering the 1974 period - available to purchase now - to claim your exclusive £10 discount use WONDER10 at checkout, 710-pages - mayakpublishing.co.uk

Exclusive DAVID BOWIE lino-cut print available to PURCHASE - don't hang around, these are ALL the remaining original left-over stock from 42 years ago, once they've gone, they've gone!