He was good friends with the late singer so it only makes sense that Gary Oldman features on the new David Bowie app.
To coincide with what would have been Bowies 72nd birthday and third death anniversary, the David Bowie Is app arrived earlier this week giving fans an interactive exhibition into the life and stellar career of the iconic British singer, who died on 10 January 2016.
Fans can navigate their way through hundreds of Bowies earliest stage outfits, videos, handwritten lyrics and diary entries in 360-degree detail. Its a digital adaptation of the critically-acclaimed V&A Museum exhibition, which launched in 2013 and toured around the world before closing last summer.
But perhaps one of the top highlights is Oldman narrating a visual of Bowies 1974 Diamond Dogs Tour. In his voiceover, the Oscar-winning actor says the tour featured contemporary music and theatre several years ahead of its time and a stellar lineup of theatrical collaborators quite unlike that of any previous rock tour.
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The historic tour boasted a dystopian cityscape theme, inspired by George Orwells classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
On his involvement with the project, Oldman said in a statement: This brings the amazing David Bowie Is exhibition to a wider audience. Its great that his fans get to experience it. It was a privilege to be involved.
Oldman, 60, was known to have an especially close friendship with Bowie and made a cameo in the late singers 2013 music video for The Next Day. The pair also starred together in the 1996 movie Basquiat.
While accepting Bowies lifetime achievement award at the Brits just weeks after his death, Oldman said: As Annie so gracefully said, Davids contribution, his influence on popular music – on culture itself – has no equal. He was the very definition, the living embodiment of that singular word, “icon”.
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He added: David was funny. He was funny, hilariously so, and the laughs were many and massive and I shall miss them.
David died after a secret 18-month battle with cancer. His final studio album, The Next Day, was released just two days before he passed.
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