Rough Trade to donate profits from David Bowie sales to CRUK
Howard Lake | 11 January 2016 | News
Music retailer Rough Trade is marking the death of singer David Bowie by donating all profits from its sales of his music during January to Cancer Research UK.
The retailer has stores in London, New York and Nottingham. It lists all Bowie’s albums for sale underneath a banner explaining its support for CRUK.
Bowie died yesterday after 18 months fighting cancer. He released his latest album Blackstar just last week on 8 January. It is expected to reach number one in the charts this week.
Rough Trade’s David Bowie section.
Rough Trade announced its charitable commitment via Twitter:
All profits from our #Bowie sales during Jan donated to @CR_UK.https://t.co/vBffmQj3PJ pic.twitter.com/pId1d0WRDO
— Rough Trade (@RoughTrade) January 11, 2016
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If you find our website is down (#Bowie), pls be patient, try again in a few mins.
Take solace: our website down = lots of @CR_UK donations!— Rough Trade (@RoughTrade) January 11, 2016
It included a blunt reason behind its decision:
Honouring the Artist. Not commodity. Fuck cancer.https://t.co/vBffmQj3PJ pic.twitter.com/0TbpvQGlII
— Rough Trade (@RoughTrade) January 11, 2016
Cancer Research UK had earlier tweeted:
We're very sad to hear that David Bowie has died of cancer. Our thoughts are with his friends and family.
— Cancer Research UK (@CR_UK) January 11, 2016
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
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