15^th Jan 2016

Space Oddities

I was never a fan of David Bowie but my friend John (Cramphorn) was and took to wearing eye make-up and carrying a vague ‘handbag’ with a fish motif on it. He would drink Prince Ruperts, a sort of brandy cocktail, but played Rugby and worked as a tyre fitter to prove to his father and perhaps himself that he could be manly as well. A sideways look at the Bowie phenomenon, starting with a trailer for The Alamo. Rumour has it that David Jones took the name Bowie in 1966 after the frontiersman and contemporary of Davy Crockett, famous for his knife; the Bowie knife. Early Pye singles and flipsides, Major Tom by The Space Lady and a complete a cappella version of Ziggy Stardust by artist Susan Philipsz.