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Bowie's birthday surprise

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Jan 9, 2013 Updated Jan 11, 2013

David Bowie has chosen his 66th birthday to break a ten-year silence by releasing a new single...with a full album to follow.

The single, 'Where Are We Now?' is currently showing on Bowie's website, with the album, The Next Day - produced by long-time collaborator Tony Visconti - due in March.

It's safe to say that the music press was taken completely by surprise, prompting several deliciously understated comments like this by journalist Caitlin Moran: "I'm so insanely excited," she wrote "It's like hearing King Arthur's voice from the cave."

Check out the single here

Source: BBC external link

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David Robert Jones (born 8 January 1947), known by his stage name David Bowie, is an English musician, actor, record producer, and arranger. Bowie has been a major figure in the world of popular music for over four decades, and is renowned as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. He is known for his distinctive voice as well as the intellectual depth and eclecticism of his work....

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