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In your autobiography, Thank You For The Days, you describe the most memorable days of your life. If you could relive one, which would you pick?
I would have to choose meeting David Bowie. I first heard his music when I was 14 and it encapsulated everything that was great about rock?n? roll. Bowie seemed so remote and glamorous he was like an alien from a far different planet. The world he occupied seemed entirely removed from the world of someone going to school doing their O-levels in Bolton. So to then meet him and know him ? and I can still e-mail him now and he?ll reply ? just seems so far away from how I ever saw my life panning out.
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