Full Page Bowie Appreciation In The Observer

Just a mortal with potential of a superman...

The review section of today's Observer newspaper in the UK has a full-page feature by Lynsey Hanley headlined: Not just a pretty thing...Bowie at 60.

It's a touching appreciation by Lynsey, summed up with the strapline: Millions spent their formative years idolising David Bowie. As he starts his seventh decade, we salute Britain's most dazzling pop star.

To give you a flavour, here's a bit from Lynsey's summing up...

What Bowie did, and continues to do, is to exert a hold over people who are open to the idea that you can go far beyond what is expected of you in life. It's not an exaggeration to say that I owe the life I have now to him and to the artists he inspired. It's a lot to ask of our pop stars, but in my experience it's what they've proved to be best at. Inspiring others to try and fulfil their potential isn't superhuman: it's mere, mortal humanity at its best.

There's also a section where 'Famous Fans' show their appreciation, which you should be able to read in the scan above, or simply visit the online version to read the whole thing.

If you're reading this, Lynsey, next time you visit your parents, take a picture of your old bedroom wall mural and mail it to me...we'll post it up here.

John, Ya Special Edition Due In March (again)

He's so divine, his soul shines...

Well, it's been a long time coming, but the Special Edition CD & DVD of Young Americans finally has a firm release date.

As we predicted over a year ago, (11.16.2005 NEWS: YOUNG AMERICANS COLLECTORS EDITION DUE IN MARCH) the release is due in March...OK, we quibble, so it's a different March, but March it is, and it's the 19th at that.

The two disc set will include some incredible pictorial content in the packaging, (which we hope to give you a sneak preview of well before the release) along with extensive sleevenotes and timeline.

The tracklisting remains as we said it would be in aforementioned news item, and it goes something like this...

Young Americans Special Edition CD & DVD (EMI 351 2582)

Disc 1 = CD

01 Young Americans (2007 Digital Remaster)
02 Win (2007 Digital Remaster)
03 Fascination (2007 Digital Remaster)
04 Right (2007 Digital Remaster)
05 Somebody Up There Likes Me (2007 Digital Remaster)
06 Across The Universe (2007 Digital Remaster)
07 Can You Hear Me (2007 Digital Remaster)
08 Fame (2007 Digital Remaster)
09 John, I'm Only Dancing (Again) (2007 Digital Remaster)
10 Who Can I Be Now? (2007 Digital Remaster)
11 It's Gonna Be Me (With Strings)

Disc 2 = DVD

01 Young Americans (5.1 DTS 96/24, Dolby Digital)
02 Win (5.1 DTS 96/24, Dolby Digital)
03 Fascination (5.1 DTS 96/24, Dolby Digital)
04 Right (5.1 DTS 96/24, Dolby Digital)
05 Somebody Up There Likes Me (5.1 DTS 96/24, Dolby Digital)
06 Across The Universe (5.1 DTS 96/24, Dolby Digital)
07 Can You Hear Me (5.1 DTS 96/24, Dolby Digital)
08 Fame (5.1 DTS 96/24, Dolby Digital)
09 John, I'm Only Dancing (Again) (5.1 DTS 96/24, Dolby Digital)
10 Who Can I Be Now? (5.1 DTS 96/24, Dolby Digital)
11 It's Gonna Be Me (With Strings) (5.1 DTS 96/24, Dolby Digital)
12 Young Americans (2007 Digital Remaster)
13 Win (2007 Digital Remaster)
14 Fascination (2007 Digital Remaster)
15 Right (2007 Digital Remaster)
16 Somebody Up There Likes Me (2007 Digital Remaster)
17 Across The Universe (2007 Digital Remaster)
18 Can You Hear Me (2007 Digital Remaster)
19 Fame (2007 Digital Remaster)
20 John, I'm Only Dancing (Again) (2007 Digital Remaster)
21 Who Can I Be Now? (2007 Digital Remaster)
22 It's Gonna Be Me (With Strings)
23 1984 (Live On The Dick Cavett Show)
24 Young Americans (Live On The Dick Cavett Show)
25 Dick Cavett Interviews David Bowie

As I say, stay tuned for some exclusive sneak previews of some of the pictorial content used in the packaging.

Mojo Bowie Birthday Tribute Due Next Month

Somebody special...

Don't have too many details about this MOJO Bowie birthday edition just yet, but, apart from what you can glean from the above advert, I can tell you that it's a 148-page birthday tribute which promises some previously unpublished pictures among other things.

Italian Rs Has Bowie Cover And Retrospective

From deep behind sixty year old eyes...

Mr Sane graces the front cover of the January 2007 edition of Rolling Stone magazine in Italy, above, for a celebration issue in honour of David Bowie's 60th birthday...hot-on-the-heels of a similar edition in Spain. (12.02.2006 NEWS: SPANISH RS HAS BOWIE COVER AND RETROSPECTIVE)

Apart from the front cover of this issue, BowieNetter Stefano from www.velvetgoldmine.it informs me that it's another 12-page retrospective that again looks at the career of David Bowie through interviews with the magazine.

If it helps any (actually, I've just done this for the fun of it) here's the translation of the Italian blurb into English using Babel Fish Translation...

David Bowie: 8 January 2007 the "alieno" enters in the third age. We have travelled over again its career through 30 years of interviews with RS and storys of two witnesses (we say) ocular.

Which is fair enough when one considers how famous 'its' ocular irregularities are...Now that's the kind of sentence I probably wouldn't have guessed I'd have to write about David Bowie.

December Issue Of The Voyeur Out Now

I said I think this rock is grand...

The December issue of The Voyeur fan magazine should be reaching subscribers about now, complete with the stylish front cover above and four pages of colour inside, along with all the usual news and features.

Details regarding the content of this new edition and information about back issues can be found on The Voyeur homepage at http://go.to/bowiefanclub.

Arnold Layne Out Today Plus Contest Winners

Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne...

Following on from yesterday's digital release, the physical formats of Arnold Layne are released in Europe today, and to mark the event we set this contest to win five copies of each of the promo CDs (above) and the regular CDs (below) a few days ago. (12.22.2006 NEWS: ARNOLD LAYNE CD COMPETITION AND UPDATES)

Well, here are the winners...

Arnold Lane promo CD winners

BrittaRuth
Eastberg
iforgot
fshion
MOTHTRAP

Arnold Lane regular CD winners

avogadro
corinap
Jackie_C
jwells
Lizcoop

If you could all please send me your real names and addresses, we'll have your discs out to you pronto.

Here's a reminder of the formats once again.

01 European promo CD single in card slipcase (CDEMDJ 717)
Released early December 2006
02 European limited edition CD single in slimline jewel case (CDEM 717)
Released 26th December 2006
03 European limited edition 7" vinyl single in card sleeve (EM 717)
Released 26th December 2006
04 North American limited edition 10" vinyl single in card sleeve
Due 16th January 2007

All four formats contain the same three tracks, as below, though the vinyl releases both include David Gilmour's introduction of David Bowie to the stage, which has been omitted form the CD versions.

01 Arnold Layne - David Gilmour, featuring David Bowie (live)
02 Arnold Layne - David Gilmour, featuring Richard Wright (live)
03 Dark Globe - David Gilmour (live acoustic version)

As we exclusively revealed last week, don't forget that the Bowie/Gilmour version of Arnold Layne will receive its first terrestrial TV airing on BBC TWO's TOTP2 in the UK at 5:05pm on Saturday January 6th.

Christmas Day Reminders And Rip James Brown

It's Monday...

Just a few Christmas Day reminders for those of you that just can't stay away from BowieNet. The simplest way to do this is to just refer back to the original news items, as I personally enjoy a bit of Christmas celebration and don't want to spend too long in front of a screen...

First up: The Arnold Layne digital download is available from today. (12.22.06 NEWS: ARNOLD LAYNE CD COMPETITION AND UPDATES) Visit the same story if you haven't yet entered the contest for the Arnold Layne CD EP...this contest ends at midnight tonight UK time. Winners announced tomorrow morning.

If you've just remembered you forgot to send a card to somebody close to you, imagine how chuffed they would be to receive a personal message from David Bowie himself. (12.23.2006 NEWS: VIEW BOWIENET HOLIDAY E-CARD WITH NEW MESSAGE FROM DB)

For those of you that haven't logged on for a couple of days or more, you will have missed yesterday's item about a spiffing new contest to win a day recording at Abbey Road. (12.24.2006 NEWS: COVER ARNOLD LAYNE AND WIN A DAY AT ABBEY ROAD)

Our thoughts are with the family and friends of The Godfather of Soul, James Brown, who has died aged 73 in hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, from the effects of pneumonia this morning.

Bowie fans will know just how important David Bowie found the work of James Brown, particularly the LIVE AT THE APOLLO 1962 album, (above) which left a very big impression on the teenage Jones.

Finally, Happy Christmas from everybody here at BowieNet to those of you that celebrate the occasion.

Cover Arnold Layne And Win A Day At Abbey Road

Arnold Layne, Don't do it again...

I'm pretty sure everyone reading this couldn't deny the brilliance of David Bowie and David Gilmour's cover of Arnold Layne, but, perhaps you think it's not quite how you would have handled the song had you been given a crack at it.

Well now, courtesy of EMI, you have the chance to prove yourself and win a day at Abbey Road recording studios to get some of your own stuff down. Here's a bit from the contest blurb...

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Originally released in 1967, 'Arnold Layne' was Pink Floyd's debut single, launching one of the world's most respected & influential bands. Written by Syd Barrett, the band's legendary co-founder and original front man, the track is frequently cited as one of the finest psychedelic pop songs of its time.

On the 25th of December David Gilmour, with notable friends David Bowie & Richard Wright, will release their recording of this classic. (One for you rock trivia fans - Syd Barrett had a major impact on Bowie who consequently named his 1971 pre-Spiders From Mars band Arnold Corns after the song.)

To celebrate this we're giving a MySpace band the chance to win a 'money can't buy' session at the world famous Abbey Road studios in London. We're asking you to cover this classic track. The best interpretation, as judged by a combination of MySpace users, ourselves & David Gilmour himself, will win both the studio time & the opportunity to have a logo designed by Storm Thorgerson.

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You've got until January 22nd 2007 to submit your version, so click on the logo above to get to the Arnold Layne contest page on MySpace now.

View Bowienet Holiday E-card With New Message From Db

Got a message from the action man...

Click on the image above to get to this year's BowieNet Holiday e-card, with a brand new audio message from David Bowie and a few exclusive shots from Geoff MacCormack's upcoming From Station To Station book.

That's Geoff above with the loneliest guy in the world on the set of TMWTE.

As ever, there is the facility to forward the e-card on to those you think deserve it...or why not just sit there listening to David's message over and over by repeatedly hitting F5. You never know, passers by may think you're having a conversation with a Rock God in your very own lounge.

Whatever you do do, BowieNet would like to wish you a happy, safe and healthy holiday, and a wonderful 2007.

Arnold Layne Cd Competition And Updates

He dug it...

With just a few days to go before the official Christmas Day release of the download version of David Bowie's performance of Pink Floyd's Arnold Layne with David Gilmour at the Royal Albert Hall in May, we are pleased to announce that we have five of the stock copies of the European only 3-track CD (above) to give away, courtesy of the ever-generous EMI.

But, if you're not tempted by that, how about...

We are fairly chuffed to announce we also have five copies of the European only 3-track promo CD (above) to give away, obviously courtesy of EMI too.

The most difficult thing you have to do for this contest is decide which you'd prefer, the stock copy in the slimline jewel case or the promo in the card slipcase. The music is identical on both.

Usual BowieNet rules apply: Only one entry per BowieNet account, and please remember you must enter using your BowieNet e-mail or at least supply your BowieNet user name. (Some entrants still don't bother with either and are immediately disqualified.)

The contest will be open until midnight of December 25th only, so that the winners can be announced on the morning the discs go on sale on the 26th.

Click on your chosen format below to enter the contest.

Stock CD

Promo CD

A further incentive to purchase the download for those Gilmour fans among you, is the fact that if you pre-order before midnight on Dec 24th, or buy either single track or 3 track bundle before 12.00pm on Saturday December 30th through 7 Digital, you'll get immediate access to exclusive video footage of David Gilmour performing Comfortably Numb live at the Mermaid Theatre show earlier this year.

We can also exclusively reveal that the Bowie/Gilmour version of Arnold Layne will receive what I think could possibly be its first terrestrial TV airing on BBC TWO's TOTP2 in the UK at 5:05pm on Saturday January 6th.

Last Chance To See Giant Bowie Holograms

So hologramic...

Those of you in London doing a last minute bit of Christmas shopping may want to pop along to The AIR Gallery in the West End to catch the tail end of Martin Richardson's Time, Space & Movement exhibition.

I'm sure you all remember the stunning prize Martin contributed to BowieNet of five of the above signed holograms (09.12.05 NEWS: SIGNED 'hours...' HOLOGRAM CONTEST WINNERS) when he ran a version of the same exhibition back in August last year. (08.14.05 REMINDER: HOLOGRAM EXHIBITION STARTS MONDAY)

This time he has more bigger than life-size Bowie holograms but be quick as the exhibition ends on Saturday evening.

Here's a reminder of what DB had to say regarding Martin's work: "I don't think I've ever quite experienced holograms like these ? they really are magnificent. They almost become part of one's family, and a very disturbing and 'otherly' family at that."

For directions and general enquiries regarding the exhibition, please see: www.airgallery.co.uk.

Bowie Talks To Wim Wenders In New Nokia Podcast

Music may change hi-di-ho keen to follow your nose...

Those of you already signed up to Nokia's Music Recommenders service should have received an e-mail today with links to exclusive outtakes from a DB interview with Wim Wenders.

In the 17-minute podcast, David discusses his lifelong passion for music discovery, record shopping and local scenes and delivers some lovely little anecdotes along the way.

As explained in the blurb above, the interview snippets are punctuated with tracks from recommended acts, which I've listed below for those of you who want to delve further.

Tapes N Tapes - Insistor
Dabrye ft Doom - Air
Assif Tsahar - Departure
D5 - Sides Of Space

Click on David Bowie's visage in the screen grab above to get to where you want to go.

Bowie Footage Used In New U2 Video

I see you see me through your window...

Popular singing combo, U2, have made a cheeky little video for their latest single release, Windows in the Skies.

Not dissimilar in concept to the Gnarls Barkley video for Smiley Faces that we told you about in July, (07.21.2006 NEWS: GNARLS BARKLEY REWRITES MUSICAL HISTORY) this U2 promo utilises footage of various rock stars and the like apparently singing along to Windows in the Skies.

Needless to say, for any proper representation of David Bowie you would need at least ten different clips as he's been so many different important Rock Gods...but for convenience sake U2 have included just two segments of David Bowie, as evidenced in the screen grab above.

First person to tell me what two Bowie videos have been used will be able to pick something nice from the BowieNet prize vault.

Windows in the Skies is released on January 1st (the DVD single in the UK will include the video) and the video itself premiers officially on MTV.com & VH1.com on Monday morning...but, as you may have guessed, it's already out there anyway.

Six-page Bowie Retrospective In Esquire

Nothing's gonna touch you in these golden years...

The Manifesto section of the January 2007 issue of Esquire magazine features a retrospective look at David Bowie's career in the run up to his 60th birthday.

The piece, by Graeme Thomson, is broken down in to five sections across six pages, with a timeline filled with many lovely compliments, such as this one I'll leave you with...

"How typical of Bowie to opt for the tough option; the route that offered the adventure (and risk) of innumerable, unsignalled forks in the road rather than the safety of a fixed destination. It's that same fearlessness, as much as anything else, that makes him Britain's one and only pop genius."

Bbc Bowie In Berlin Radio Doc Due Next Year

Robert Fripp and David Bowie wait patiently for their turn at Space Invaders during a
break in the recording of "Heroes", while Brian Eno goes on to attain a personal best.

I, I can remember, Standing, by the wall...

Following on from the news exactly two months ago that Radio 2 will be airing a Mark Radcliffe presented Bowie documentary in January, (10.14.2006 NEWS: LENNOX LEAKS BOWIE RADIO DOCUMENTARY DETAILS) it seems he'll be doing the same for another Bowie documentary a few days earlier on January 2nd.

Berlin...Soundz Decadent is an hour long programme blurbed thus on the Radio 2 site:

"On 8 January David Bowie turns 60 years old. In recognition, Radio 2 celebrates with a programme focusing on Bowie's remarkable Berlin period in the 70s and the city's influence, past and present, on him and his music. From Kabaret to Krautrock and beyond, Berlin."

The albums Low, "Heroes" and Lodger are often referred to, misleadingly, as the Berlin trilogy. But, as I'm sure you know, much of Low was recorded just outside Paris and Lodger was recorded in Montreux and New York. Anyway, it looks like the programme won't be hindered by such trifles.

I should point out that it has been made with no involvement from DB himself, and I wouldn't be surprised if most of the interviews are from the archives.

Berlin...Soundz Decadent airs on January 2nd between 20:30 and 21:30 on Radio 2.

Bromley Museum Exhibition Now On

Young Jones the Kon-rad looking good in THAT jacket.

Freak out in a suburban daydream...

Bromley's most famous son (No, not H G Wells, you dolt!) is the focus of an exhibition that opens this week at the Bromley Museum.

We first mentioned the exhibition back in July when we posted a bit about the above jacket that DB is pictured wearing during his time as a Kon-rad. (07.20.2006 NEWS: DB CONFIRMS AUTHENTICITY OF MUSEUM PIECE)

Here's the official guff...

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?SUBURBAN DAYDREAM? ? 60s AND 70s ROCK AND PUNK AT BROMLEY MUSEUM

Despite its quiet suburban reputation Bromley has been home to some of Britain?s leading pop stars. David Bowie, Peter Frampton, Billy Idol, Siouxsie Sioux and Bill Wyman are just some of the famous musicians who grew up in the area.

This new exhibition at Bromley Museum explores the borough?s musical connections. Did you know that David Bowie was living in suburban Beckenham when he invented his famous Ziggy Stardust character? Or that the famous sax solo at the end of Lou Reed?s ?Walk on the Wild Side? was performed by Ronnie Ross, Bowie?s old saxophone teacher from Orpington? Or that one of the first Sex Pistols gigs was at Ravensbourne College in 1975? This was seen by a group of local punks who became the notorious Pistols fans known as the ?Bromley Contingent?.

On display for the first time will be a unique piece of musical history recently acquired by the museum, a jacket owned by David Bowie (or David Jones as he was known then). This belonged to David when he was in his first band called the ?Kon-rads? in 1962-63. He later decorated the jacket when he toured with a group called the ?Riot Squad? in 1967. Alongside the jacket will be pop memorabilia and unique photographs of many of the area?s musical heroes.

The ?Suburban Daydream? exhibition will be at Bromley Museum, The Priory, Church Hill, Orpington from Monday 11th December 2006 to Saturday 24th March 2007. It is open Monday to Saturday from 10am to 5pm. For further details contact Adrian Green, Museum Curator on 01689 873826.

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Surely worth a trip down through sarf London for.

Velvets Acetate Most Expensive Record Of All Time

Velvet Goldmine...

An acetate of an early version of The Velvet Underground's first album, The Velvet Underground & Nico, has sold on eBay for an astonishing US $155,401. This easily makes the disc the most expensive of all time.

David Bowie is mentioned in the eBay description of the album, from which this excerpt written by Eric Isaacson of Mississippi Records...

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This acetate, which is possibly the only surviving copy, represents the first Velvet Underground album as Andy Warhol intended it to be released.

Though the same compositions and even a few of the same "takes" (albeit in different mixes) were used on the subsequent commercial release, that which was eventually issued as their debut album on Verve, "The Velvet Underground & Nico", was a significantly different creation.

I had heard of these nascent recordings before... it was said by some that the master tapes had burned in a fire, by others that all of those recordings ended up being on the released album, and still by others that the only existing copy of that material was on an acetate owned by David Bowie, and that he was known to tout it as his most prized possession.

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David Bowie has indeed made mention of this acetate which he was given by his then manager, Kenneth Pitt, in December 1966. One of the songs that particularly impressed the 19-year-old Bowie was Waiting For The Man, which is possibly the most performed of any cover version by Bowie.

Here's what he had to say about the excitement the recording generated for him: "I literally went into a band rehearsal the next day, put the album down and said, We're gonna learn this song. We learned Waiting For The Man right then and there, and we were playing it on stage within a week."

In an article for Vanity Fair in 2003 he talked further about just how firmly his finger was on the pulse: "In December of that year, my band Buzz broke up, but not without my demanding we play Waiting For The Man as one of the encore songs at our last gig. Amusingly, not only was I to cover a Velvets' song before anyone else in the world, I actually did it before the album came out. Now that's the essence of Mod."

David's earliest known version of the song was recorded in 1967 during the Deram sessions and has never had an official release. BBC session versions of the song were recorded in 1970 and 1972 and a live Ziggy version was captured for posterity on the Santa Monica album. Other bootleged live versions have surfaced from various tours over the years.

I asked David if the acetate he owned included different versions to that of the released album. He said that it was the same as the released version, but that it was a pre-release acetate...complete with Warhol signature!

Of course, this too is an extremely rare artefact, but its value is actually irrelevant as it's not something DB would ever want or need to part with.

If you want to read more about the eBay acetate, click on the very expensive side one above or the shortcut in this sentence.

Bowie Boots Raise $2,600 For Give Landmines The Boot

Just wishing that I had just something you wore...

The boots that David Bowie donated to the Give Landmines The Boot campaign have sold on eBay for a record £1,320 GBP (Approx. $2,600 USD), .

In the end that's more than twice the amount paid for Phil Collins' trainers, which were the next highest auction price at £641.98.

Indeed, for the money spent on the Bowie boots, you could have bought the combined footwear donated by Chris Martin of Coldplay (£510.00), Ringo Starr (£431.51), Brian May (£255.00) and Ricky Gervais (£88.50)...and still have enough left over for a really nice pair of brand new plimsolls! (£34.99)

The lucky winner of DB's boots was in fact BowieNetter steveabs, who is already considering viewing sessions round his place when the boots arrive and who suggested today's lyric quotation. Well done Steve.

All good fun and all for a good cause...what could be nicer?

One Day Left To Bid On Charity Bowie Boots

This time tomorrow I'll know what they fetched...

With less than 24 hours left to bid on the above footwear that David Bowie donated to the Give Landmines The Boot campaign, we're all waiting for that inevitable last minute bidding frenzy which often accompanies auctions such as these.

There have been no further bids since I last posted regarding this matter, (12.01.2006 NEWS: BIDS FOR BOWIE BOOTS ALREADY AT TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS) but, with the bid currently at £1,020 GBP (Approx. $2,000 USD), Bowie's boots are still by far and away the most successful auction item out of this current batch of 59 lots donated to the Give Landmines The Boot campaign.

Tune in around this time tomorrow to see what sum the boots finally reached.

Geoff Maccormack Bowie Photo Book Due Next Spring

"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...

Genesis Publications has announced details of Geoff MacCormack's (AKA Geoffrey Alexander, Mac Cormack & Warren Peace) upcoming book of David Bowie photographs due Spring 2007.

You will remember the incredibly stylish job Genesis made of Moonage Daydream, and anybody who knows anything about the company will understand that theirs is a name synonymous with excellence in standards of publishing.

Here's a bit from the Genesis Publications newsletter...

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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.

In the meantime, click on the image above to register with Genesis Publications for further information regarding From Station to Station.