“Next Day” by David Bowie

The title track of The Next Day, David Bowie's 25th studio album, came out as a single on Columbia in 2013, and as an object it was a collector's tease: a limited, square white 45 with the song on both sides. It's art rock with its fists up, and the video made sure nobody missed the point.

Floria Sigismondi, who had also shot the clip for the previous single, "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)", set Bowie up performing in a bar called The Decameron, a nod to Boccaccio's book and its satirical swipes at the clergy, crowded with religious figures and scantily clad women. Gary Oldman and Marion Cotillard appear alongside him, and Cotillard's character breaks out in bloody stigmata while a priest dances with her.

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