@craig @lisa @pedant @bluesqueakpip
Thank you for the links. Whilst I was away, a friend thought it best not to reveal the news until this morning. I had no idea until about 10 hours ago.
Anyway, I did an MMA on Bowie -quite the experience. I’ve probably mentioned this before. Anyway 🙂
I recall having to go thru ‘procedures’ to retain a mentor to permit me to study Bowie’s output and the general exclamation (sneer) was “huh? Him. No. Not at all”.
Eventually, the Dean agreed. I actually was ‘hooked’ up by phone to David Bowie for about 30-40 mins with Prof listening all the way through…I was incredibly nervous, surrounded by scribbled questions and even stuttered: “er, hello, sir, Mr Bowie?” (what a nut!)
My prof had to move the phone away before he spat out his scotch (he’d started early) with hilarity closely followed by shooting motions at his head (meaning, “oh God, how embarrassing, you twit”).
But.
Mr Bowie, aware of this set-up said, “ah, darlin’ sit down, ‘ave a cup of tea. I can hear you moving all your papers. So how are you, love, wot? You play something? Oh, and call me David.”
Stunning to have the Legend calm me down.
When I left the Dean’s hall, some of the students, massing quietly outside his room (it was about midnight) started clapping and singing ‘Changes’. I’m pretty sure they were drunk- news had slowly spread that the ‘mouse’ was doing a ‘thing’. It was kept fairly quiet beforehand. I owe my Dean a lot for that little opportunity into this rarefied world of glam rock/experimental/ etc. And I was grinning for days.
Mr Bowie: a terrific guy every which way. Typically, I can hold the tears until I log in here and see the links to specific songs -and their excellent renditions.
Kindest,
Puro Solo.
Craig 6 years, 9 months ago.Anonymous @
