David Bowie's Lifelong Friend Revisits '70s Adventures with Rocker in Rare and Never-Before-Seen Photos

By editorial board on October 8, 2023

Geoff MacCormack, elementary school friend with a boy named David Jones remained lifelong friends with the one and only David Bowie. As Bowie's star continued to grow, MacCormack was there every step of the way.

When Bowie hit the road on tour in 1973, he asked MacCormack to join him — and he did, snapping photos along the way of their journey, which also included filming the movie The Man Who Fell to Earth and recording the album Station to Station, People reports

"I was very lucky," MacCormack says of his decades-long bond with Bowie, who died in 2016 at age 69. Now, MacCormack is sharing those photos with the world in a new book called David Bowie: Rock 'n' Roll with Me (out March 27 by ACC Art Books).MacCormack says he had "absolutely" no idea at the time that he was capturing history, but compiled the photos in an earlier, limited edition book that he put out in 2007 with Bowie's involvement.

For that first go-round, the "Life on Mars" singer wrote a zany forward in which he pretended that none of the featured adventures had happened, and it was all a figment of MacCormack's imagination. That blurb now serves as the new book's afterward. "Obviously the book is sad at the end because he departs," says MacCormack. "So I've used that and it kind of lifts you up at the end." See below for a selection of photos from David Bowie: Rock 'n' Roll with Me, and the special stories behind them.

David Bowie was not a fan of air travel. He’d had a premonition that if he travelled by plane, he would end up falling to earth in a great ball of fire.

Watch the exclusive photos on People 

 

The app will allow fans to explore the hundreds of costumes, videos, handwritten lyrics and original artwork featured in the exhibit. It will also include dozens of items not featured in the original exhibit, including some that will be exclusive to the app.

After being visited by over 300,000 people, left London in 2013 and then to Chicago, St. Paul, Toronto, Paris, Berlin, Melbourne, arriving from 14 July to 13 November 2016 at the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna. The exhibition celebrates the nearly fifty years of David Bowie's career, the alien could in five decades to permanently pursue innovation without ever betraying himself and his audience.

3D renderings preserve and present his costumes and treasured objects such as musical scores, storyboards, handwritten lyrics, and even diary entries – all in 360-degree detail, enhanced by an immersive audio experience featuring Bowie’s music and narration, best experienced with headphones.”

 

The exhibition David Bowie IS is the first international retrospective of the extraordinary career of David Bowie one of the most influential performers and visionaries of modern times. Over 300 exhibits including the original handwritten lyrics, original costumes, photographs, set designs, albdavidum covers and rare performances of material that cover five decades of the artist's activities collected and exhibited, for the first time in absolute and exclusive in Italy, from the David Bowie Archive.

The app will feature dozens of items not featured in the original exhibition – including some entirely new and exclusive to this AR version. For more information, visit the official David Bowie Is site.

 

 

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