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In a move presaging the modern day crowdsourcing of setlists, fans were encouraged to vote for the songs they wanted to hear by calling in to 1-800-2-BOWIE-90.  

In 2013, it was announced that the David Bowie Archive had given unprecedented access to the prestigious Victoria and Albert Museum for  ‘David Bowie is….', an exhibition to be curated solely by the V&A in London.

This period also saw RCA's release of David's first compilation of hits, ChangesOneBowie, in May 1976. The complex project explored the increasing obsession with the mutilation of the human body as art and the paganization of western society. Marking the first time a museum has been given access to the
David Bowie Archive, the exhibition has gone on to break records in the U.S., Berlin and France.

★ closer I Can't Give Anything Away was released April 6, 2016 as a third single. Combining elements of an interactive fan club and music streaming service, the network predated behemoths like Twitter, Spotify, and Second Life. In the summer of 1974, he undertook his most ambitious US tour yet, with an enormous set and choreographed tableaus.

Dave Grohl took the same role on the Neil Young cover I've Been Waiting For You. Guest turns aside though, Bowie played more instruments on Heathen than anything in memory, including the drums over his own loop on the Pixies cover Cactus, as well as nearly all the synth work and some of the piano. In 1998, proving his masterful ability to remain on the forefront of media, he launched his own Internet service provider, Bowienet.

The subsequent music provided an atmospheric counterpoint to the emerging punk scene in London. His influence spread to a broad range of musicians that includes rockers, punks, hip-hop artists, and pop stars. The chords that it struck elicited positive reviews everywhere from the BBC to Pitchfork, the latter positing that Reality "should cement his continued role as vibrant, modern artist for years to come." The album's release was followed by the rapturously received and critically acclaimed A Reality Tour of the world, which would end up being Bowie's last extensive touring outing to date.

David would maintain an extremely low profile for the coming years, popping up for two stunning 2005 performances with Arcade Fire, one at Central Park's Summerstage and another at that year's Fashion Rocks fundraiser at New York's Radio City Music Hall.

Spurred on by uniformly brilliant songs like The Stars (Are Out Tonight), Valentine's Day and Love Is Lost, critical consensus rated The Next Day the equal of any Bowie classic: The New York Times called it "Bowie's twilight masterpiece," while The Independent named it "the greatest comeback album in rock n roll history… as good as anything he's made." Bowie would maintain radio silence for the duration of The Next Day's stay on the charts, with only occasional visual interpretation such as Floria Sigismondi's takes on The Stars (Are Out Tonight) (starring David and Tilda Swinton as suburban husband and wife) and The Next Day (with Gary Oldman as a debauched bishop and Marion Cotillard as… well… this is what YouTube is for...) puncturing the veil of mystery surrounding the album.

The iron curtain still firmly divided Europe and nowhere more so than in Berlin where David and Iggy were famously holed up. With Nile Rodgers again producing, the album provided sonic updates to several previous Bowie eras: with the opening instrumental The Wedding (inspired by Bowie's 1992 marriage to Iman Abdulmajid) offering a dance-and-house-inspired tone recalling Low's brighter moments; the single Jump They Say harking back to funkier times, and a cover of Cream's I Feel Free marking a long-awaited reunion with Ziggy-era partner Mick Ronson (sadly, Ronson passed away soon after).

The album's fifth and final single Love Is Lost was released in October 2013. Highlights included the stirring and reflective Dead Man Walking and the infectious sardonic humor of I'm Afraid Of Americans, co-written with Eno and accompanied by a spontaneous Dom & Nic video that found Trent Reznor (who plays on the V1 single version of the song) chasing David through the streets of New York's Greenwich Village.

Bowie took this time to enjoy fatherhood but also began writing a series of new songs which would form the basis for a new album.

David was in New York on September 11th, 2001 and in the aftermath showed his support for his adopted city by performing a short but emotional set at The Concert for New York City at Madison Square Garden.