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Gary Oldman narrates life and career of David Bowie on your smartphone

/ 03:43 PM January 06, 2019

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Gary Oldman is the narrator for a new application devoted to David Bowie. Image: AFP/Giuseppe Cacace

The massively popular “David Bowie Is” exhibition, which launched in London’s V&A Museum before traveling to 11 other cities around the world has now been packaged as a smartphone application, which is to be released on Jan. 8.

Narration for the augmented reality application will be provided by actor Gary Oldman, reports Pitchfork.

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“David Bowie Is” will enable users to interact with hundreds of costumes and videos, handwritten lyrics and works of art.

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The launch date will coincide with what would have been Bowie’s 72nd birthday.

Bowie and Oldman had a substantial history of collaboration. In 2013, the English actor featured in Bowie’s video “The Next Day” and the pair also played opposite each other in a Julian Schnabel film on the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, which was released in 1996.

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David Bowie passed away in January 2016. JB

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