Month: June 2010

I love you in the morning sun, I love you in my dreams…

Today is the eighteenth anniversary of David and Iman‘s official church wedding at Saint James Episcopal Church, in Florence, Italy in 1992.

The couple are pictured above at their most recent public appearance on May 20th, at a luncheon at Barneys in New York in honour of Iman’s Fashion Icon Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America that she will receive tomorrow, June 7th.

Congratulations and our very best wishes to David and Iman from everybody here at BowieNet.

Snapping pictures of scrawny limbs and toothy grins…

Sad to report the passing of the photographer Brian Duffy. He died last Monday (May 31st) following a protracted degenerative lung condition.

We’ve covered Duffy’s work with David Bowie fairly extensively on these pages in recent months. (05.09.2010 NEWS: BRIAN DUFFY OPENS HIS ARCHIVE FOR BOWIE PRINT SALES & 10.15.2009 NEWS: DUFFY TALKS ABOUT ALADDIN SANE SHOOT ON BBC & 01.14.2010 NEWS: UNPUBLISHED BOWIE SHOTS IN DUFFY BBC FOUR DOCUMENTARY)

But, If you’re not particularly familiar with the man and his work aside from his Bowie pictures, check out the official Duffy site where you can find an online link to a fascinating BBC documentary about the man called The Man Who Shot The 60s, from where the above screen grab was taken. The programme is also repeated on BBC Four in the UK on Saturday June 12th at 22:30.

Our condolences go out to Duffy’s family and friends.

Wear your badge with honour…

The Ch, Ch, Ch, Ch, Changing Man himself, Paul Weller, performed at the very last Friars show at Aylesbury Civic Centre on Friday night (June 4th) and was more than happy to display his appreciation for David Bowie once again.

Regular readers of these pages will be well aware of how Weller has championed Bowie on many occasions over the last couple of years, here’s a round-up of related BowieNet news items: 08.27.2007 NEWS: MOJO ON DB DEBUT AND WELLER PREFERS BOWIE TO JAM & 05.14.2008 NEWS: WELLER IS BORN AGAIN BOWIE FREAK & 05.22.2008 NEWS: BOWIE ASKS WELLER FOR HIS HAIRCUT BACK VIA E-MAIL & 06.05.2008 NEWS: WELLER WEARS BOWIE BUTTON FOR TV RECORDING & 08.17.2008 NEWS: WELLER WANTS TO WORK WITH BOWIE & 09.09.2008 NEWS: NOW WELLER POSES AS ALADDIN SANE & 02.09.2009 NEWS: WELLER REVISITS BOWIE 1972 FOR LATEST TOUR ADVERT.

I know you’re also all well aware of the importance of Aylesbury Friars during the early 1970s phase of David Bowie’s career and that was again reflected in these items: 05.07.2008 NEWS: OFFICIAL FRIARS AYLESBURY COMPENDIUM IS LIVE & 02.13.2009 NEWS: OFFICIAL FRIARS AYLESBURY COMPENDIUM UPDATED & 04.04.2009 NEWS: BOWIE AT FRIARS REVIEWS IN NEW ROXETTE MAGAZINE & 11.15.2009 NEWS: BUDGET STOPPS REMEMBERS BOWIE AT AYLESBURY.

Aylesbury lass Judy Pearce, of the New Roxette Magazine, kindly sent in the above photos by Neale Wareham from Friday with the following note…

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Hi Blam – Sorry that you couldn’t make it on Friday it was a blast. I met Paul before the gig and gave him a “Serious Moonlight” enamel badge (which I got when I worked for EMI Records) – and as you can see from the attached photos he wore it. When I gave it to him he said he would “wear it with pride”.

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I think that’s very sweet of Paul to say that and to wear the badge…many thanks to Neale for the pictures and to Judy for being so forward thinking to take the badge along to the gig.