The late David Bowie’s 1999 album Hours may have started life as a video game soundtrack for Omikron: The Nomad Soul (1999), but it was also a pioneering LP for the internet age (Longplay, In other words, it was an album containing over 10 songs. . On September 21, 1999, before the Internet became the behemoth it is today, Bowie’s album became the first complete music album by a major artist to be made available for download over the Internet before physical release. became. The song was available on the artist’s website BowieNet. A physical album was released on his CD on October 4 of the same year.
Hours was the Space Oddity singer’s 22nd studio album and the last collaboration between Bowie and guitarist Reeves Gabrels, who had been working together since 1998.
Speaking about the album, the singer said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine: You could say I’m trying to write some songs for my generation. ” Later artists and Gabrels visited Birmuda to find Zen and write lyrics for the game’s background score. But eventually they had enough songs to release their own album.
The album cover depicts the singer, known as a revolutionary thinker, cradling his younger self. The artwork is heavily influenced by Christianity, which is reflected in the music as well. The cover itself is inspired by the Virgin Mary, informally known as La Her Pietà, which depicts the Virgin Mary cradling the body of Jesus on the Hill of Golgotha. This marble statue, commonly called the Pieta, was created by Michelangelo and can now be seen in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.
