The Return of the Thin White Duke

THE return of David Bowie with a new single on his 66th birthday was completely unexpected.

‘Where Are We Now?’ appeared on Bowie’s website yesterday, along with the announcement of a new album, The Next Day, in March.

Bowie has been silent for ten years, but his every appearance in public has been considered newsworthy: in October, he made the papers for no other reason than that he was photographed in the street in New York.