David Bowie celebrates his birthday by announcing a new album
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Today is David Bowie's 66th birthday, and while most 66-year-olds would likely prefer that nobody make a big fuss—maybe take in a matinee of The Guilt Trip and follow with an early dinner at Applebee's—David Bowie is obviously not most 66-year-olds. So he's using his special day to announce The Next Day, his first new album in nearly a decade. Bowie has been more or less retired since 2003's Reality, his only "new" material consisting of one-off appearances and that time he wrote "Little Fat Man" for Ricky Gervais.