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“Well I might take a train”

As we told you last month, a signed-by-David Bowie collection of Geoff MacCormack’s beautiful Bowie photographs are to be offered as part of Bonhams’ Entertainment Memorabilia sale on June 28th.

The images will be on view at Bonhams Knightsbridge saleroom from June 25th till the sale on the 28th, accompanied by a never-before-seen film of Geoff and David’s journey from Japan to Moscow (for the ‘May Day Parade’), shot by Bowie himself and seen through his eyes, interspersed with MacCormack’s photographs.

“Hey babe, your hair's alright”

UNCUT magazine in the UK has an exclusive first play of Rebel Rebel from the upcoming CD and download of David Bowie Cracked Actor - Live Los Angeles '74.

So we’ve grabbed the opportunity to use another of Terry O’Neill’s superb shots from the show, courtesy of Iconic Images.

Fans of a certain vintage may remember an A2 version of this exact image in a poster magazine published in 1975. For those outside of North America who never got to see these concerts, it really was images like this that fed Bowie fans, hungry for more news of their man.

“So where were the spiders”

Thirty years ago today, on Duncan Jones’s 16th birthday (Happy 46th, Duncan), David Bowie kicked off his Glass Spider World Tour at the Feyenoord Stadium, in Rotterdam. On the day, Duncan was introduced to the audience for an enthusiastic 60,000-strong singalong of Happy Birthday.

Launched in support of the Never Let Me Down album, neither the tour nor the album are remembered fondly in some quarters.

However, both have plenty of fans and though he wasn’t too kind about either at various points, David Bowie did come to the defence of the tour in 1997,