David Bowie Can Keep A Secret

On Tuesday morning January 8, 2013, the astonishment that greeted the release of David Bowie's first single in a decade seemed almost universal. The shock was not merely that Bowie – long since presumed retired – was back, with an album, The Next Day, to follow in March (2013); it was that one of the biggest stars in the history of rock music had managed to spend two years making a record without even a hint of rumor reaching the wider world. This in an age of camera-phones and gossip websites and social media.MORE HERE