“Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you…Mr David Bowie! No, honestly…it truly is him!”
Geoff MacCormack helps a tired and weary alien across the desert on the set of TMWFTE.
Such is the stuff, From where dreams are woven…
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From Station to Station is the story of Geoff MacCormack’s amazing three years travelling and touring with David Bowie.
From the Spring of 1973 and the invitation to join childhood friend David Jones’s new band, The Spiders, as a backing vocalist and percussionist it was to be a non-stop tour of the US, Japan and the UK.
David Bowie’s fear of flying meant that they travelled by any other means possible – be it ship, train or road.
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Any Bowie fan worth their salt will understand the importance of Geoff’s contributions to the Bowie story. His working credits for David Bowie during the 1970s are too numerous to list here. Not to mention contributions to some of the campest Bowie performances of all time. (Check out Footstompin’ from The Dick Cavett Show and Time from The 1980 Floor Show.)
Over to the man himself for a brief synopsis of From Station to Station…
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“During the early part of 1973, I had two huge strokes of luck and good fortune.
Firstly, while working in a London office I got a call from a childhood friend called David Jones. David Jones was now David Bowie and he invited me to join his band, The Spiders, as a backing vocalist and percussionist, for a tour of the USA, Japan and the UK.
The second piece of luck was that David had a fear of flying. Thus we would have to travel the thousands of miles around the world by ship, train and road.
At the end of the tour David, surprisingly, announced his retirement. Nevertheless I stayed with him for another two years, travelling and working on other tours – Diamond Dogs and Young Americans – and six albums, from Aladdin Sane to Station to Station.
From Station To Station is the story of those three amazing years, together with my previously unpublished photographs of Bowie at work and at play.” – GEOFF MacCORMACK
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Bowie fans have been teased with Geoff’s pictures ever since some of his first published Bowie photographs appeared in rock magazines and the 1976 World Tour programme, ISOLAR, under his stage name of Warren Peace.
Stay tuned to BowieNet for some exclusive previews of From Station to Station over the coming months, including some breathtaking unpublished shots and some contributions to the text from DB himeslf.
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