Ziggy shocker: Bowie goes down on Mick Ronson’s guitar in 1972
❚ WHAT MORE IS THERE TO SAY ABOUT BOWIE? To coincide with this week’s release of the mega-superduper collectable special edition 3-CD box set of Station to Station, an NME photo gallery of the godlike one reveals 50 things it thinks we don’t know about Bowie and here are five of them…
❏ A teenage Bowie was interviewed on a BBC programme as the founder of The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-haired Men. He complained: “It’s not nice when people call you darling and that.”
Bowie’s best friend: Herd guitarist Peter Frampton, hailed by Rave as the Face of ’68
❏ Peter Frampton, of Baby I Love Your Way, was Bowie’s friend at school — his dad was head of the art department.
❏ Space Oddity gave Bowie his big break. This now-famous track was used by the BBC in its coverage of the moon landing in 1969. Bowie was practically unknown back then – the song became his first UK hit.
❏ According to a recent [? Jan 24] piece in The Observer, David Bowie’s iPod contains Lorraine Ellison’s Stay With Me, Dinner At Eight by Rufus Wainwright, and Gathering Storm by Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
❏ Below we see David Bowie at London’s Rules Restaurant, 1973, after receiving a presentation of six discs from RCA Records. The occasion? He had six albums in the charts that year.
Bowie in 1973: bumper chart success
❚ HERE’S ONE OF OUR OWN: The boy wonder was profiled in 1967 by Fabulous 208 which tells us that at the age of 20 Bowie had already written more than 60 songs. Wowie!
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