“Somebody sings my song in tune”
Ahead of the upcoming tour by Tony Visconti and Woody Woodmansey’s Holy Holy with Glenn Gregory and Marc Almond, The Huffington Post has published a great piece written by Glenn about how he got the gig singing the songs of his hero.
Typically self-effacing, Glenn explained that while he knows he could never fill David Bowie’s shoes, he’s nevertheless having a blast singing the songs from The Man Who Sold The World and other Bowie classics from the period 1969 to 1973.
Here’s the introduction from the piece where Glenn recounts the moment he was offered his dream job…
When I was asked to perform David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold The World live it was 16 May – my birthday – and little did I know I was about to get the best birthday present ever! I was walking back from picking my boy Louie up from school; he was running around shouting loudly with his friend James, Consequently I didn’t hear entirely correctly what was being asked of me.
I thought there was going to be a one off concert in London and Tony Visconti wanted me to sing one song, the title song from the fantastic album The Man Who Sold The World. “I’ve always loved that song” I replied, “I’d love to sing it, which other singers are doing the other songs”?
No one else, said Tom (Tom Wilcox who was putting the whole show together) “Tony and Woody want you to sing the whole album live, and if you’re up for it a few more songs for the second half of the show”.
“Really”, are you sure I replied, “I can’t be David Bowie”!
You can read the full thing over at The Huffington Post.
Tickets are available for the 16-date Holy Holy tour of the UK, Dublin and Tokyo (which kicks off at the Isle Of Wight Festival in a month’s time), here.