Monthly Music Magazines Bowie Bits Round-up

Every magazine on every shelf...

A few nice Bowie bits in the August editions of the UK music mags out now. Obviously we already told you about Q in yesterday's news. And so, on with the rest of them...

No, that's not BowieNetter DTS above, it's the legend that is Scott Walker, with part of a quote he gave to MOJO shortly after receiving The MOJO Icon Award recently. Here's the relevant bits from the brief interview published in this month's issue...

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Who would you most like to give a MOJO award to?

Dead or alive? Alive it's difficult...Just for changing things so radically, and hanging in there, you'd probably have to give it to David B. And he makes it pay, which I don't!

You had the chance to work with him...

I don't remember that. We had a couple of conversations... But he's always very kind to me, always tells people, "You gotta hear this guy." And every time I do a record, he always sends me a great message.

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David Bowie is an executive producer of the documentary Scott Walker: 30 Century Man which is due later this year.

Elsewhere in the mag there is the shot of Brian Rasic's that we first used exclusively in the BowieNet news last month. (05.31.06 NEWS: MORE EXCLUSIVE BOWIE PIX FROM RAH AND REVIEWS) The same shot was also reprinted in aforementioned Q magazine, and in UNCUT magazine...of which more in a second. Not sure about The Word, as I haven't seen that particular publication just yet.

The wonderful shot above is from a great 4-page picture special in UNCUT magazine of David Bowie greeting fans on his return to the UK, at Charing Cross station on May 4th 1973.

David was accompanied on the crossing from Paris (after an 8,000 mile overland journey from Japan, via Russia on the Trans-Siberian Express and the Orient Express through East Germany, Poland and France!) by Melody Maker writer Roy Hollingworth and the paper's snapper, Barrie Wentzell.

They had both managed to join with the Bowie entourage to get an exclusive interview before David's Aladdin Sane tour of the UK.

It's a great read, packed with lots of pictures like the one above, and is really worth the price of the magazine for this feature alone.

On a final note, the girl at the window in the picture above looks suspiciously like Ãœber fan Claire Mansfield (aka Mistress Chloe) who started one of the very first fan run Bowie fan clubs, Subterraneans.

Claire went on to write the superb Dominatrix, a memoir of her life growing up as a Bowie fan and punk rocker, (with lots of great Bowie references) up to her present day occupation as a dominatrix and lots of other stuff in-between.

Get in touch if it is you, Claire. Indeed, get in touch if it isn't...but don't spank me if I'm wrong...not into all that kinky stuff, it's far too scary!