Bowie

[silverbirch]

Brilliant guy, top songwriter had massive success with his group... The Spiders....
but then pulled the plug on Ziggy and the Spiders

big let down for his group who after playing on his LPs and touring
Britain and America with him .....were suddenly unemployed .

[tex]

Re: Bowie

Brilliant guy, top songwriter had massive success with his group... The Spiders....
but then pulled the plug on Ziggy and the Spiders

big let down for his group who after playing on his LPs and touring
Britain and America with him .....were suddenly unemployed .

Mick ronson continued to work with Bowie for a time before joining Mott the hoople for a stint, he also enjoyed some solo success

[George 1978]

Re: Bowie

A very brilliant guy with such talent.

[Richard1978]

Re: Bowie

David seemed know when the have a change of musical direction & dropped a look while it was still fresh.

[George 1978]

Re: Bowie

I was thinking in a "chicken and egg" sort of way: which came first- Ziggy Stardust or Alvin Stardust? And did the latter name himself after the former?

[silverbirch]

Re: Bowie

THE whole point of glam was cross dressing . and make up
Alvin always wore leather... with teddy boy sideburns....... could nt be further away from glam

[silverbirch]

Re: Bowie

Bowie is claimed by Brixton ... he must have been born there....

but at age 6 they moved to Bromley and a rather nice house in the suburbs where David

spent his childhood

[Richard1978]

Re: Bowie

Alvin Stardust had previously performed as Shane Fenton & the Fentones in the 1960s.

[silverbirch]

Re: Bowie

he moved around in his long career... living in different places London... LA... Berlin
New York, soon after John Lennon was shot, he headed for Switzerland

[George 1978]

Re: Bowie

Alvin Stardust had previously performed as Shane Fenton & the Fentones in the 1960s.

I assume that Bernard Jewry as he was originally called, was the second person to call himself Stardust, by virtue of Bowie being a little bit more famous than him?

[tex]

Re: Bowie

Alvin Stardust had previously performed as Shane Fenton & the Fentones in the 1960s.

Wasn't he married to Liza goddard?

[George 1978]

Re: Bowie

Wasn't he married to Liza goddard?

Yes he was - I think he was married to other famous women, but not at the same time of course.

[Zincubus]

Re: Bowie

THE whole point of glam was cross dressing . and make up
Alvin always wore leather... with teddy boy sideburns....... could nt be further away from glam

I always regarded Alvin as a joke act tbh


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[George 1978]

Re: Bowie

I don't think that people would have said it was crossdressing back then.