New Killer Star

"New Killer Star"
"New Killer Star"
Single by David Bowie
from the album Reality
B-side	"Love Missile F1-11"
Released	29 September 2003
Recorded	Looking Glass Studios, New York City
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	4:40 (Album version); 3:43 (Radio edit)
Label	Columbia/ISO Records; COL 674275 9
Songwriter(s)	David Bowie
Producer(s)	David Bowie, Tony Visconti
David Bowie singles chronology
Music video
	"New Killer Star" on YouTube

"New Killer Star" is a song written and performed by David Bowie in 2003 for his album Reality. This was the first single from the album.

While it is uncertain what the song is really about (like other Bowie songs), the lyrics make oblique reference to life in post-9/11 New York City. However the video clip, directed by Brumby Boylston of National Television, tells a surreal story using lenticular-postcard-like images of a spaceship almost crashing into the modern American heartland. Bowie himself said of the song: "I'm not a political commentator, but I think there are times when I'm stretched to at least implicate what's happening politically in the songs that I'm writing. And there was some nod, in a very abstract way, toward the wrongs that are being made at the moment with the Middle Eastern situation. I think that song is a pretty good manifesto for the whole record."^[1]

The song title is a play on the words 'nuclear star'.^[2]

The B-side is a cover of Sigue Sigue Sputnik's "Love Missile F1-11".

Music video

The music video features lenticular images throughout.

Track listing

CD: ISO-Columbia / COL 674275 1 (Italy)

"New Killer Star" - 4:40
"Love Missile F1-11"

CD: ISO-Columbia / 38K 3445 (Canada)

"New Killer Star" (Edit) - 3:42
"Love Missile F1-11"

DVD: ISO/Columbia COL 674275 9 (Austria)

"New Killer Star (Video version)" - 3:40
"Reality (Electronic Press Kit)"
"Love Missile F1-11"

Charts

Chart	Peak position
France	69^[3]
Italy (FIMI)^[4]	48
Argentina	5^[5]

Personnel

According to Chris O'Leary:^[6]

David Bowie – vocals, rhythm guitar, Korg Trinity, keyboards
Earl Slick – guitar
David Torn – guitar
Gail Ann Dorsey – background vocals
Sterling Campbell – drums
Catherine Russell – background vocals
Tony Visconti – bass
Mark Plati – bass

Production

David Bowie – producer
Tony Visconti – producer, engineer
Mario J. McNulty – engineer

References

^ "David Bowie Biography Archived 18 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine". Consulted on 29 April 2012.
^ "[1]".
^ Australian-Charts.com David Bowie New Killer Star, retrieved 1 November 2013
^ "David Bowie – New Killer Star". Top Digital Download. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
^ top40-charts.com David Bowie New Killer Star, retrieved 23 December 2015
^ O'Leary, Chris (2019). Ashes to Ashes: The Songs of David Bowie 1976–2016. London: Repeater. p. 535. ISBN 978-1-91224-830-8.

[1] "David Bowie Biography Archived 18 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine". Consulted on 29 April 2012.

[2] "[1]".

[3] Australian-Charts.com David Bowie New Killer Star, retrieved 1 November 2013

[sc_Italy_David_Bowie-4] "David Bowie – New Killer Star". Top Digital Download. Retrieved 19 August 2020.

[5] top40-charts.com David Bowie New Killer Star, retrieved 23 December 2015

[6] O'Leary, Chris (2019). Ashes to Ashes: The Songs of David Bowie 1976–2016. London: Repeater. p. 535. ISBN 978-1-91224-830-8.

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Discography Songs
1960s	"Liza Jane" "I Pity the Fool" "You've Got a Habit of Leaving" "Baby Loves That Way" "Can't Help Thinking About Me" "Do Anything You Say" "I Dig Everything" "Rubber Band" "The London Boys" "The Laughing Gnome" "Love You till Tuesday" "Space Oddity"
1970s	"The Prettiest Star" "Memory of a Free Festival" "Holy Holy" "Moonage Daydream" "Hang On to Yourself" "Changes" "Starman" "John, I'm Only Dancing" "The Jean Genie" "Drive-In Saturday" "Time" "Life on Mars" "Let's Spend the Night Together" "Sorrow" "Rebel Rebel" "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" "Diamond Dogs" "1984" "Knock on Wood" "Rock 'n' Roll with Me" "Young Americans" "Fame" "Golden Years" "Station to Station" (French promo) "TVC 15" "Suffragette City" "Stay" "Sound and Vision" "Be My Wife" "'Heroes'" "Beauty and the Beast" "Breaking Glass" "Boys Keep Swinging" "D.J." "Yassassin" "Look Back in Anger" "John, I'm Only Dancing (Again)"
1980s	"Alabama Song" "Crystal Japan" "Ashes to Ashes" "Fashion" "Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)" "Up the Hill Backwards" "Under Pressure" "Wild Is the Wind" "The Drowned Girl" "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy" "Let's Dance" "China Girl" "Modern Love" "Without You" "White Light/White Heat" "Blue Jean" "Tonight" "This Is Not America" "Loving the Alien" "Dancing in the Street" "Absolute Beginners" "Underground" "When the Wind Blows" "Magic Dance" "Day-In Day-Out" "Time Will Crawl" "Never Let Me Down" "Under the God" "Heaven's in Here" "Tin Machine" / "Maggie's Farm (live)" "Prisoner of Love"
1990s	"Fame '90" "You Belong in Rock n' Roll" "Baby Universal" "One Shot" "Real Cool World" "Jump They Say" "Black Tie White Noise" "Miracle Goodnight" "The Buddha of Suburbia" "Ziggy Stardust" "The Hearts Filthy Lesson" "Strangers When We Meet" / "The Man Who Sold the World (live)" "Hallo Spaceboy" "Telling Lies" "Little Wonder" "Dead Man Walking" "Seven Years in Tibet" "Pallas Athena" "I'm Afraid of Americans" "I Can't Read" "Without You I'm Nothing" "Thursday's Child" "The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell"
2000s	"Survive" "Seven" "Slow Burn" "Everyone Says 'Hi'" "I've Been Waiting for You" "Shadow Man" "New Killer Star" "Just for One Day (Heroes)" "Rebel Never Gets Old"
2010s	"Golden Years David Bowie vs KCRW" "Where Are We Now?" "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)" "The Next Day" "Valentine's Day" "Love Is Lost" "'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore" "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)" "Blackstar" "Lazarus" "I Can't Give Everything Away"
Other songs	"Silly Boy Blue" "Let Me Sleep Beside You" "Karma Man" "Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed" "Cygnet Committee" "Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud" "The Width of a Circle" "All the Madmen" "Black Country Rock" "After All" "She Shook Me Cold" "The Man Who Sold the World" "The Supermen" "Oh! You Pretty Things" "Kooks" "Quicksand" "Andy Warhol" "Song for Bob Dylan" "Queen Bitch" "The Bewlay Brothers" "Bombers" "Five Years" "Soul Love" "Lady Stardust" "Velvet Goldmine" "Sweet Head" "Amsterdam" "Round and Round" "Watch That Man" "Aladdin Sane" "Panic in Detroit" "Cracked Actor" "Lady Grinning Soul" "All the Young Dudes" "Future Legend" "Sweet Thing" "Big Brother" "Can You Hear Me?" "Right" "Fascination" "Word on a Wing" "Speed of Life" "What in the World" "Always Crashing in the Same Car" "Warszawa" "Art Decade" "Weeping Wall" "Subterraneans" "Joe the Lion" "Sons of the Silent Age" "Blackout" "V-2 Schneider" "Sense of Doubt" "Neuköln" "Fantastic Voyage" "It's No Game" "Teenage Wildlife" "Scream Like a Baby" "As the World Falls Down" "Girls" "Nite Flights" "I'm Deranged" "Nature Boy" "Cactus" "Pablo Picasso" "The Loneliest Guy" "Try Some, Buy Some" "Fall Dog Bombs the Moon" "Bring Me the Disco King" "Girl Loves Me" "Dollar Days"