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David Bowie to release new album in January
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 26 October 2015
Eschewing all that secrecy nonsense, David Bowie has just come out and announced his next album. Titled ‘Blackstar’, it will be his 25th studio LP and will be released on 8 Jan next year, the musician’s 69th birthday.
Various pieces of information about the content of the album were ‘revealed’ by The Times on Saturday, the newspaper reporting that the record was “completely bonkers” and that the title track and lead single is ten minutes long, featuring “Gregorian chants, a soul section, various electronic beats and bleeps, and Bowie’s distinctive vocal”.
A statement on Bowie’s website yesterday confirmed that both the album and first single are called ‘Blackstar’. However, it was noted that there had been “inaccurate reporting on the sound and content of the album”. But we won’t have to wait too long to find out who’s telling the truth, as ‘Blackstar’ the single will be released on 20 Nov.
The album release will come two years, almost to the day, after Bowie made the surprise announcement of his last album, ‘The Next Day’.
