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Review: David Bowie's legacy lives on years after his death - that is if it hasn't even grown since the great artist's sad passing. This unique live album was recorded in 1990 at the Milton Keynes Bowl and saw the cute singer performing songs on his Sound+Vision tour. This gig was the first leg of his return to Europe so found him full of energy and vitality and turning in superb tunes like 'Rebel Rebel', 'Ashes to Ashes' and 'Life on Mars'. All of this was in front of a massive 60,000-plus crowd and it still makes for spine-tingling listening all the years later.

Review: This is one of the very many classic David Bowie broadcasts out there. It was recorded on his Hours tour to support his 21st studio album of the same name, and was the last he did for the EMI sub-label. It was the first full album to be made available by a major artist for full internet download, a full two weeks before the physical release. The album makes use of many instruments and took Bowie away from electronica. Guitarist Page Hamilton played in the tour as did Mark Plati on lead and rhythm guitars, Gail Ann Dorsey on bass guitar, Sterling Campbell on drums, and Mike Garson on keyboards. This set was recorded in December 1999 at the London Astoria for FM broadcast.

Review: The more distance there is from Bowie's passing, the more his legacy seems to grow - not that it was ever in doubt in the first place. The creative maverick and musical chameleon had more different chapters than War & Peace and Like Some Cat From Japan captures one of them, namely his West Berlin period in the mid-70s. It spawned his cult Low and Heroes album and saw him work often as a prouder and musical director for Iggy Pop, before heading out on a frankly unbelievable 78 date tour across four continents over the course of the year. The final show was in Japan and was broadcast live across much of the world. This is a selection of the best cuts from that gig.

Review: "I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring," David Bowie famously quipped at his 50th Birthday concert in Madison Square Garden. That was 1997, and sadly we can now look back at the years between then and now as the last the icon would enjoy, although given the pantheons of unreleased material, music and other, we still have more than his legacy alone to learn from. He certainly kept his word, then, not least by opting to work with Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails, a band that found inspiration in myriad styles and sounds, from Human League to Pink Floyd, carving out a 'industrial electronic rock' niche for themselves. In addition to tours and one-off shows, recordings of their collaborations are remarkable, generating fresh wholes from the enormous sums of these parts.

Review: The one and only David Bowie was an untouchable talent no matter what he was doing - recording music, inventing personas, acting in films, speaking on futurism, or playing live for radio and TV. Now, this five CD boxset celebrates that fact with more than 80 tracks included and spanning all of his discography between the years of 1967 and 1995. The Broadcast Collection on Cult Legends incudes everything you want it to and more from 'In The Heat Of The Morning' (more than one version is included) to 'Unwashed & Somewhat Slightly Dazed' and plenty of other gems.