“There’s been many others, so many times”
We’re very happy to be able to give you an exclusive preview of the March edition of French magazine Rock&Folk, which is published tomorrow. (February 17)
In celebration of the forthcoming arrival of David Bowie Is in Paris, the popular music monthly has an impressive twenty five-page cover feature with articles by Eric Dahan, Jérôme Soligny and Patrick Eudeline.
Eric has written some great accompanying text in a ten-page selection of classic Bowie photographic portraits. While in an eight-page feature, Jérôme surveys the vast Bowie discography and selects fifty five of his favourite releases for your consideration.
Patrick has contributed four pages on the theme of David Bowie the mod and the remaining three pages (also by Jérôme) concern themselves with a look at various Bowie book and DVD recommendations with the punning title: Beau, oui!
FOOTNOTE: Jérôme informs us that with this edition, Bowie has appeared on the cover of Rock & Folk twenty times since the magazine was founded in 1966. That’s more appearances than any other artist in Rock & Folk’s forty nine-year history.
UPDATE: David from the most excellent David Bowie – On the cover of a magazine has been in touch with his own theory of how many times Bowie has been on the cover of Rock & Folk. Over to you David…
“I have it on good authority that Bowie has appeared in total on 26 R&F covers. He has had 21 full page covers (shared with another person or by himself), along with five other covers featuring a small picture. So strictly speaking he has had 21 covers.”
Of course, Jérôme probably wasn’t including this latest edition so his claim is still good. Perhaps we will feature a gallery of all the covers one of these days.