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David Bowie, Daft Punk

UPDATE: The image appears to be a newly edited version of a photo that ran in Lemon Magazine in the late ’00s.

Daft Punk’s ongoing metamorphosis from robot to meme has reached full-blown David Bowie status. Less than a week after Arcade Fire Daft Punk’d Coachella, and less than a month after Parks and Recreation unveiled its own shiny dance-bot helmet, Bowie has shared a reworking of his classic “Heroes” cover art costumed in the style of the French droid duo. The occasion? The rock great was congratulating Columbia exec Rob Stringer on winning an industry award. The Next Day singer also passed along a playful message, which — thought it might appear to hint at a new album — should probably be taken as just a goof (a Bowie rep declined to comment to NME). Read that below, plus and minus signs most certainly Bowie’s. Wonder what he thought of that Strong Bad-Daft Punk mashup.

BOWIE’S MESSAGE TO ROB STRINGER AT MW AWARDS

“Now hear this Rob Stringer…”

The Music Week Awards 2014 (https://smarturl.it/MWA2014) took place in London tonight (Thursday 24th) – Columbia US chairman Rob Stringer picked up the prestigious Strat Award at the ceremony, and was congratulated by artists and executives from across the industry, including David Bowie who sent the following message.

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When I first knocked on the door of his office at Sony, New York, you can imagine my surprise when a member of Daft Punk opened it. In silence he brought me in and indicated that I should take a seat on the comfy armchair to the right of the chairman’s desk, around which he moved and took his place in the chairman’s chair.

He removed the shiny helmet.

It was Rob.

‘This,’ he said ‘is how far I will go for my artists.’ I found out that during the course of that day Rob had not only guested as an executive third Daft Punk member at a lunchtime gig at a club in Manhattan, but had also led a Dylanology symposium at Barneys clothing store, sung falsetto on a new London Grammar track and choreographed a touching interpretive dance number to One Direction’s ‘They Don’t Know About Us’ for the cast of Glee.

Knowing him for the man he is, it came as no surprise that he had won tonight’s most prestigious award, The Strat.

If you become the object of his enthusiasm an artist will find a genuine long-term support that is sadly missing in the recording industry.

When he asked me if I minded if he took a few Saturdays off from his duties as percussionist on my new album this year in order to catch the Luton Town football club fixtures, how could I refuse? It’s the least I could offer to the man who with his own hands pulled my album to number one throughout the world.

Congrats for The Strat, Rob. You’re a star.

David Bowie 2014

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