USA: ROCK STAR DAVID BOWIE APPEARS AS A VIDEO GAME CHARACTER CALLED BOZ

Record ID: 388377

  • Title: USA: ROCK STAR DAVID BOWIE APPEARS AS A VIDEO GAME CHARACTER CALLED BOZ
  • Date: 22nd May 1999
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (MAY 12, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) DAVID BOWIE AND LONGTIME GUITARIST AND COLLABORATOR REEVES GABRELS ARRIVING AT PRESS CONFERENCE PRESS CUTAWAY SOUNDBITE (English) DAVID BOWIE SAYING "Not many people know this, but actually I was the first artist to take computers out on the road in the very early eighties. In fact on the Serio
  • Embargoed: 6th June 1999 13:00
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  • Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Entertainment
  • Reuters ID: LVA9T7UW7EIQGG0RYNV725ZZDNNQ
  • Story Text: Chameleonic rocker David Bowie has once more changed colours, this time turning up as a video game character called Boz! DAVID Bowie has teamed with longtime guitarist and collaborator Reeves Gabrels on "Omikron: The Nomad Soul," a futuristic 3-D action-adventure CD-ROM game for the PC.
    Bowie and Gabrels worked with game developers to create original music for "Omikron," including eight new songs that will be exclusive to the game and not appear on any Bowie CD.
    A virtual CD featuring the songs and music can be purchased in the game by players and taken back to their virtual apartment.
    Bowie and Gabrels were among those involved with the game's development who attended a press conference on May 12 heralding its October debut.
    "The idea of actually doing a soundtrack for anything that's involved in a computer orientation was a real magnet for me and we approached it as though we were doing a film,"
    said Bowie.
    "What we were trying to do more than anything else was trying to provide an emotional heart to the game."
    Bowie and his wife, Somali-born supermodel Iman, also take roles in the game in which players must place their souls into the body of someone else in order to move around the gigantic Omikron city.
    British gamemaker Eidos funded the game's development.
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