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6 days ago
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Benicio del Toro treasures his signed copy of David Bowie film The Man Who Fell To Earth
Benicio del Toro says a signed copy of David Bowie's film 'The Man Who Fell To Earth' is one of his most treasured possessions. The 58-year-old actor is a Bowie super-fan and he was once lucky enough to work with the late rock legend on the 1996 film 'Basquiat', which is about the life of American postmodernist/neo expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Benicio owned the 1976 science-fiction film 'The Man Who Fell To Earth' - which stars Bowie as alien Thomas Jerome Newton who is on a mission to transport water back to his drought-suffering home planet - and had to get his musical hero to add his signature to his copy. Appearing on the 'Soundtracking with Edith Bowman' podcast, he said: "My introduction to Bowie was 'Let's Dance' and on the other album that had 'Blue Jean', the follow-up, but I've always admired him. "But I do remember, you know, I had a laser disc of 'The Man Who Fell to Earth', I love that movie. Well, he did sign the laser disc for me. And I, I really treasure that, you know? It was like, I don't know, I had this thing of going, like, 'Hey, you gotta sign this.' And it was just very gentle. 'I just love that album 'Live Santa Monica '72' and 'Station to Station', 'Low'. "He had a lot of, like, you know crowd rock with Brian Eno. They had a lot of stuff going on." When working on 'Basquiat' with Bowie - who played pop artist Andy Warhol in the movie - Benicio admits it was a surreal moment being face-to-face with his idol. In a previous interview with UPROXX, Benicio - who can be seen in Wes Anderson's new film 'The Phoenician Scheme' - said: "I remember walking into the makeup trailer, and there he was. And he just sat right next to me. He was very normal. Very normal, very polite. I was just like beside myself sitting there looking at myself and going like, 'Can you believe it?' Looking at myself in the mirror, I'm sitting right next to David Bowie. But you know, he signed some things for me."
BBC News
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Collection of 30,000 vinyl albums sells for £132,000 at auction
A collection of vinyl records amassed over 60 years has been sold at auction for nearly £132,000, almost double the expected two-day sale was run by Ewbank's in Send, vinyl collection had been the life's work of an unnamed collector, who had recently had estimated the "jaw-dropping" collection would sell for about £80,000. A Peel Sessions collection, featuring artists including Jimi Hendrix, Joy Division, New Order, The Smiths, Nico and Stiff Little Fingers, was expected to fetch between £800 and £1,200, but went for £4, a collection of Rolling Stones albums expected to sell for up to £400 went for £1,235, and a box of records by 90s artists, estimated to sell for between £300 and 500, was sold for £1,430.A box of Jimi Hendrix Experience albums went for more than twice its £500 estimate, at £1,040, and a copy of the David Bowie LP The Man Who Fell To Earth, with an estimated price of £500, was sold for £1, a copy of the Spice Girls' album Spiceworld, which had an estimated price of £340 to £360, sold for £780.
