Eight Page Fs2s Spread In Today's Sunday Times Magazine

I’m stuck with a valuable friend…

Today’s Sunday Times Magazine in the UK has a generous eight pages dedicated to Geoff MacCormack‘s most beautiful From Station To Station book. It’s a picture heavy piece with some lovely extracts from the text in the book. Here’s a bit from the feature…

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Then, one morning in January 1973, Gwen the receptionist announced there was a Mr David Bowie on the line for Geoff. Bowie wanted him in his band, the Spiders from Mars, which was about to embark on a world tour, playing a huge string of concerts in the US, Japan and the UK, and stopping in Hawaii and Russia en route. MacCormack would sing backing vocals, play percussion and live the rock?n?roll dream with one of the greatest entertainers of the age. Was he up for it? ?Let?s just say,? says 60-year-old MacCormack now, ?it wasn?t the hardest decision I?ve ever made.?

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BowieNetters can view larger versions of each page by clicking on the above spread. You can read the whole thing at timesonline, but I’ll leave you with an intriguing insight into just what a rock ‘n’ roll animal David Bowie could be when the pressures of hotel life got too much…

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Whereas less genteel British rock bands ritually trashed hotels, Bowie and the Spiders were better behaved. But they enjoyed their own more sedate brand of mischief on the UK leg of the tour, Bowie posing for MacCormack beside a sweetly slumbering tour driver, and the star and his backing vocalist ?experimentally? dropping the components of a china tea service, teapot and all, from a seventh-storey hotel-room window. ?David is very intelligent and well read, but there?s a wonderful silliness to him as well,? says MacCormack. One night they amused fans in a bar with a skit that was based on their cruise experiences, and seemed to presage the character of Manuel in Fawlty Towers two years later. ?David played the uptight gentleman passenger and I played the incompetent waiter. The scene was set on board a heavily rolling ship and basically involved me trying to serve tray after tray of drinks and sending bottles and glasses flying all around the room.?

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