David Bowie has enlisted the talents of Gary Oldman and Marion Cotillard for the latest single to be taken from his comeback album ‘The Next Day‘.
As with the previous cut ‘The Stars (Are Out Tonight)‘, Floria Sigismund has directed the video for the title-track of Bowie’s LP, which became the fastest seller of the year so far in the UK upon its release in March.
Bowie announced his sudden return to the music fold earlier this year with the first single ‘Where Are We Now?‘.
“In a curiously emotive style, the song reflects upon the artist’s early career in Germany as the lyrics take us on a musical tour of Bowie’s Berlin, when at the peak of his career in the mid-to-late seventies he lived and played in the city whilst working on three albums,” Live4ever’s review of the track reads.
“Potzdammer Platz – close to Hansa Studios where Bowie recorded ‘Low‘ and ‘Heroes‘ – and the nightclub Dschungel, are places tagged in lyrical musings of days past. Dschungel was Berlin’s answer to Studio 54, replete with female bouncers (who once turned away Sly Stallone) and a regular clientele that included Bowie, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed and later Nick Cave.”
