Story behind the song: ashes to ashes

In the spring of 1974, DAVID BOWIE arrived in the United States by boat. By the time he left in the spring of 1976, his marriage was ending, his cocaine addiction was spiralling, and he'd become obsessed with Nazis. He'd also made another masterpiece: Station To Station. "We went days without sleeping," his valiant co-conspirators tell GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN. "Inhibitions were out the window."

London Shepherd’s Bush Empire

From The Bottom Of An Old Grandfather Clock (reissue, 2004) DEAD OCEANS

London’s post-punk seismographers pick up more weird vibrations on their third album. By Victoria Segal. Illustration by Cold War Steve.

Mike Patton and the Avett Brothers join forces to create a work of immense beauty.

Black And Blue UMC/POLYDOR