David J.

David J, born David John Haskins in Northampton in 1957, made his name as the bassist in Bauhaus and Love and Rockets, and in 1990 he stepped out on his own with Songs From Another Season on MCA. Its calling card, "I'll Be Your Chauffeur", became one of the very first No. 1 hits on the brand-new Modern Rock Tracks chart: a lean, sly, late-night cruise of a song, all dry wit and smoky atmosphere, that trades the gothic shadows of his old bands for something closer to a crooner's patter.

He has never kept to one lane. He has written scores for plays and films, and staged plays of his own as writer and director: Silver for Gold (The Odyssey of Edie Sedgwick) in 2008, restaged at REDCAT in Los Angeles in 2011, and The Chanteuse and The Devil's Muse that same year. His artwork has hung in galleries around the world, he has held down a DJ residency at the Knitting Factory, and he has put out records with the Mexican label No Devotion Records. In 2016 "The Day That David Bowie Died", from the double album Vagabond Songs, reached number 4 on the UK vinyl singles chart.

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