David Bowie was one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century and in his prolific artistic career produced a catalog of 27 studio albums11 live albums, 4 soundtracks and 128 singles. However, after his death -in 2016-, an unpublished version of his hit song will be released “Let’s Dance”.
This is because Gala Musica subsidiary of Web3 startup Gala Games, announced last Thursday the launch of a collaboration with music producer Larry Dvoskin and the publisher Warner-Chappell Music to launch a previously unreleased version of Bowie’s hit song through a NFT limited series.
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The presentation will be on April 14, 40 years after the release of the original song. The collection will consist of 3,003 NFTseach with a Bowie-inspired piece of art, which will grant the holder access to the unpublished version from “Let’s Dance” that Dvoskin produced with Bowie in 2002.
The NFTs will be sold for the price offered by each buyer and all the Profits initial sales will be intended to benefit MusiCaresa charity that provides health and social services to the musical community.
Genesis of this project
Dvoskin described the song in a statement as a “dreamer and more electronic” version of the hit, which remains one of Bowie’s most popular tracks. The music producer and composer always wanted this new version to see the light. So it was that, approaching the 40th anniversary the launch of the emblematic song, he decided to get the necessary confirmations to release the song via NFT.
“When I first spoke to the executor of Bowie’s estate, he told me that he planned to listen to my proposal about releasing this song as an NFT and then politely decline,” Dvoskin said in a statement. “But when he opened the original email from 2002 in which Bowie expressed his enthusiasm for making the recording, changed his mind. This it was a creative project that David could never see launched in life. We are fulfilling his wish by releasing it now.”
