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Forbes
06-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
David Bowie's Famed Concert Will Finally Be Released As An Album
David Bowie's Ready, Set, Go! Live! concert from 2003 will finally be released for Record Store Day ... More 2025, with only 6,400 collectible copies available. David Bowie (wearing an eyepatch) performs 'Rebel Rebel' on the TV show TopPop on 7th February 1974 in Hilversum, Netherlands. (Photo by Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns) David Bowie has been gone for more than eight years, but his music continues to resonate. Fans of the legendary British artist are still eagerly snatching up every project released by his estate, and there has been a fairly steady stream of collectibles since his passing. The announcement of a new album — Ready, Set, Go! Live! Riverside Studios 03 — surely got his legion of followers excited, and even though it's technically not new music, this project is still sure to become a quick bestseller when it's released in just a few days. On September 8, 2003, Bowie performed a one-night-only concert at Riverside Studios in London. At the time, it was a groundbreaking event, as it was beamed live via satellite to movie theaters in dozens of countries. That was a novelty at the time, and around 50,000 fans turned up to watch the show in real-time – a number that's still impressive even by today's standards. Despite how monumental the evening was, the performance was never turned into a commercial release. That changes this year, as Ready, Set, Go! Live! Riverside Studios 03 is finally being shared with the public as part of Record Store Day 2025. More than two decades after it happened, fans will finally be able to own a physical copy of the concert. The fact that Bowie's latest posthumous release is a Record Store Day exclusive means it won't be available to stream or purchase through major online retailers. Those who want a copy will need to head to their local record shop to pick it up, which is the entire point of the event. Only 6,400 copies are reportedly being pressed. That might be enough to satisfy demand, or it could quickly sell out. There's a real chance the title could even chart on Billboard's Top Album Sales ranking, some of the company's rock-focused tallies, or even U.K.-based lists, as he remains a favorite in his home nation. The project is being released as a double LP and CD, both of which will come packaged with a replica poster from the original event. The 14-track effort includes tunes like 'New Killer Star,' 'Reality,' 'The Loneliest Guy,' 'Cactus,' and 'Afraid.' While many know the setlist well from the original performance, this is the first time it will be available in such a high-quality, official format.
The Guardian
01-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
David Johansen: a life in pictures
The New York Dolls in their dressing room at Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 7th December 1973. Arthur Kane (back left against wall), David Johansen (centre, raising middle finger), Johnny Thunders (part obscured behind Johansen), Sylvain Sylvain (leaning against wall in front of Rolling Stones poster), Jerry Nolan (lying back, wearing red T-shirt). Photograph: Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns Musicians Joan Jett, of the group the Runaways, Deborah Harry, of the group Blondie, David Johansen, formerly of the group the New York Dolls, and Joey Ramone (1951-2001), of the group the Ramones, as they attend a mock wedding, New York, 1977. Johansen holds a copy of cartoonist Charles Schulz's 'Peanuts Treasury' book. The photo was taken as part of a shoot for Punk magazine. Photograph: Roberta Bayley/Redferns The New York Dolls with David Johansen on vocals, perform live on TopPop TV show for AVRO TV at Hilversum Studios in 1973. Photograph: Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns Photograph: Gems/Redferns An early photo of The New York Dolls. Photograph: MichaelJerry Nolan, Sylvain Sylvain, David Johansen, Johnny Thunders and Arthur 'Killer' Kane of the New York Dolls, 1974. Photograph: Chris Walter/WireImage New York Dolls in concert at Biba's Rainbow Room restaurant, Kensington, London, in 1973. Photograph: Ian Dickson/Shutterstock Johansen appearing at the Grammy Awards as his alter ego Buster Poindexter at Radio City Music Hall in 1988. Photograph: AP David Johansen with Bill Murray in the 1988 film Scrooged. Johansen played the Ghost of Christmas Past in the modern retelling of A Christmas Carol. Photograph: Allstar Picture Library Limited./Alamy The New York Dolls reunited in 2004. Photograph: Jun Sato/WireImage The New York Dolls toured the UK once more in 2011 before disbanding for good. Photograph: Matt Kent/WireImage David Johansen in a still from the Martin Scorsese helmed Personality Crisis: One Night Only. Photograph: TCD/Alamy David Johansen and his wife Mara Hennessey attending a screening of Personality Crisis: One Night Only during the 60th New York Film Festival at The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall in 2022. Photograph:for FLC Cyndi Lauper and David Johansen at a bar after the Z100 Party at the Palladium in August 1989. Photograph:Rob Wasserman (top left) with (clockwise) Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, Bruce Hornsby, Lou Reed, Little Jimmy Scott, and David Johansen backstage at the Beacon Theater in New York City in 1994. Photograph: Ebet Roberts/Redferns David Johansen in the water as the Marshall of the Mermaid Parade, Coney Island, New York in 2005. Photograph: David Corio/Redferns David Johansen with Mara Hennessey at the anti-Donald Trump protest, New York, May 2018. Photograph: G Ronald Lopez/Zuma Wire/Shutterstock Morrissey, winner of the Silver Clef Award 2004 with David Johansen, Arthur 'Killer' Kane and Sylvain Sylvain of the New York Dolls. Photograph: Jon Furniss/WireImage Al Lewis and David Johansen during filming of Where Are You? Car 54. Photograph: Barbara Nitke/Orion/Kobal/Shutterstock David Johansen, Ben E. King, Joey Ramone and Tommy Ramone attend the 1988 New York Music Awards. Photograph:In concert at Biba's Rainbow Room restaurant, Kensington, London in 1973. Photograph: Ian Dickson/Shutterstock Second left, Bob Geldof, of the the Boomtown Rats, David Johansen, and Rock & Blues musician Rick Derringer with three unidentified women at Kipling's Last Resort nightclub, New York, in 1979. Photograph:Ivana Trump, David Johansen, aka Buster Poindexter, RuPaul and Fred 'Rerun' Berry at taping of VH1's 'The RuPaul Show' at VH1 Studios in New York City in 1997. Photograph: MediaPunch/Shutterstock Debbie Harry of Blondie and David Johansen of the New York Dolls at a book release party for Tama Janowitz's A Cannibal In Manhattan, at Trader Vics in New York City in 1987. Photograph: Ebet Roberts/Redferns David Johansen at the Poplar Creek Music Theater in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, in 1981. Photograph:Performing as Buster Poindexter at City Winery, New York City, in 2016. Photograph:
