Gorillaz founder Jamie Hewlett hints at possible David Bowie collaboration
The artist posted a cartoon of the Thin White Duke to Instagram
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Your support makes all the difference.Over the past few months, Gorillaz founders Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn have been teasing us with snippets of news to do with the band.
While nothing substantial has been revealed other than work is happening on a new album, Hewlett may have just teased an absolutely massive collaborator: David Bowie.
The artist’s Instagram account is mainly compromised of artwork based on members of the cartoon band yet one of his latest pictures features a stylised version of the 68-year-old, along with the caption ‘Bad David’. See below.
Gorillaz has previously worked with big-name artists such as Lou Reed, Bobby Womack and even Snoop Dogg, so a track with the Thin White Duke wouldn’t seem like a huge stretch. The band have also paid homage to the singer before, featuring a picture of his album, Hunky Dory, on their third album Plastic Beach (see above photo).
Bowie is also about to release a new album, so perhaps a recording session with Albarn could have happened at some stage during that process.
The Blur frontman previously confirmed that he was working on a “really fast” new record “and it's got quite a lot of energy.”
He told Rolling Stone: “I’ve been stuck on piano, somewhere off Broadway, for years now. I want to go somewhere completely opposite of that.”
The band's last release was "Do Ya Thing" in collaboration with James Murphy and Andre 3000.
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