He knows it’s all worthwhile…
Nicholas Coleridge has written a wonderful piece for an eight-page feature in the September issue of
In it Nicholas describes his journey as a Bowie fan from his familiar blown-away-by-Starman-on-TOTPs-initiation in 1972, (the same life-changing experience so many of us reading this had) right through to meeting Bowie at an aftershow backstage at Wembley during the 2003 A Reality Tour.
Here’s the standfirst…
“Enduringly enigmatic, eerily ageless and utterly essential: six decades into his career, the Thin White Duke is still the epitome of cool. But how, exactly, did he morph from star man to soul boy to great Briton without committing rock?n?roll suicide? And what does an obsessive do when he comes face to face with the man who sold the world?”
The picture inset bottom right in the montage above is of GQ editor Dylan Jones, Nicholas Coleridge and an icon backstage at aforementioned Wembely meeting in 2003.
It’s really worth picking up GQ for a proper read of this, and, even if the pedants among us can spot a couple of minor factual wobbles in the piece, these do nothing to hamper the overall enjoyment of the article…and that’s not even taking in to account some fine pictorial content.
I’ll leave you with Nicholas’s Bowie playlist taken from the article…
FROM SPACE ODDITIES TO MODERN LOVES
NICHOLAS COLERIDGE?S BOWIE PLAYLIST
01 – Cygnet Committee
02 – The Width Of A Circle
03 – Saviour Machine
04 – Life On Mars?
05 – Suffragette City
06 – Rock ?N? Roll Suicide
07 – Panic In Detroit
08 – Time
09 – Sweet Thing
10 – Candidate
11 – We Are The Dead
12 – Win
13 – Somebody Up There Likes Me
14 – Word On A Wing
15 – Wild Is The Wind
16 – Sound And Vision
17 – “Heroes”
18 – Sons Of The Silent Age
19 – Look Back In Anger
20 – Ashes To Ashes
21 – Let?s Dance
22 – China Girl
23 – My Death (live)
24 – I Would Be Your Slave
25 – Slip Away
FOOTNOTE: Not sure if he’s seen this issue of GQ as he hasn’t posted anything just yet…but if you’re reading this, Paul K, you need to get a copy as