It wasn’t until the early 1970s, with the release of Hunky Dory in 1971 and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars that Bowie became a global sensation. By this point, the amiable artist had made friends with most who were lucky enough to cross his path.
Tina Turner
Pop icon Tina Turner was down on her luck in the early 1980s and believed her days as a chart-topping phenomenon were numbered when she was dropped from Capitol Records at the end of her contract. At the time, Turner had just returned to music following the breakup of her abusive relationship with her ex-husband Ike. Fortunately, everyone’s favourite superhero was Tina’s labelmate, and he decided to offer her a helping hand.(Faroutmagazine)
Tina later said of Bowie’s involvement, “In 1983, David Bowie did something very special and significant for me. We were on the same label, but the decision had been taken not to re-sign me. David, however, had just had his contract renewed by Capitol, who wanted to take him out to dinner that night in New York to celebrate. ‘I’m sorry,’ he told them, ‘but I’m going to the Ritz to see my favourite singer perform.’ And that was me.”
Turner said proudly, “The bigwigs tagged along and luckily, it was a great show. Seeing it and the crowd’s reaction turned round how Capitol viewed me. It was because of David that I got another deal, and everything else followed. I’ll be ever thankful to him.”
David and Mick? First of all Mick wanted to do the dance. David was just a gentleman, being there in some kind of way, trying to find out what he wanted to do with Tina. Because they were like brothers or close, close, close friends and then I ended up doing an album with David and a live show. We were dancing, Tonight.”
I remember the last thing he said. ‘I love you Tina’ and I said ‘I love you David.’ and that was all.
The next thing I heard he was sick and then after that I saw Iman and asked her how he was and she said “He’s OK”, because they kept it undercover, and then the news came through – (VMZ)
Iggy once told The New York Times: “The friendship was basically that [Bowie] salvaged me from certain professional and maybe personal annihilation — simple as that. A lot of people were curious about me, but only he was the one who had enough truly in common with me, and who actually really liked what I did and could get on board with it, and who also had decent enough intentions to help me out. He did a good thing. He resurrected me. He was more of a benefactor than a friend in a way most people think of friendship. He went a bit out of his way to bestow some good karma on me.”
Mott the Hoople
Bowie sent them (Mott The Hoople) an early demo of ‘Suffragette City’ in hopes that they would record it. Unfortunately, the band jammed to it and felt it wasn’t fitting for their style. In his polite letter of declination, the group’s bassist Pete Watts explained to Bowie that the band had broken up.
Bowie got back in contact with Watts and showed him an early incarnation of ‘All the Young Dudes’. According to David Buckley’s book, Strange Fascination, Watts later recalled, “He hadn’t got all the words but the song just blew me away, especially when he hit the chorus.”
Excited about the single, Watts arranged for Bowie to meet the other band members to pitch the track. They were immediately on board. Frontman Ian Hunter recalled the moment, “He just played it on an acoustic guitar. I knew straight away it was a hit.
Amanda Lear
I owe him a lot. It was he who told me: You have an exceptional voice, you have to sing". I would never have thought of it. But he really believes in it. He paid me singing and dancing courses. Then I started singing with him, I learned a lot. In the end, it was in Germany that I recorded my first album. And there we parted"."At that time David was still with his wife Angie I didn't even know. A few days later I was at my house with Bowie. The phone rings and it was her. She says to me: "I'm David's wife, will you pass it on to me?" There I discovered Angela. However their marriage was ending." (VMZ)
A rare slice of David Bowie memorabilia will go under the hammer later this week in the shape of a 7-inch vinyl demo of the previously unreleased track Run Piper Run. (loudersound)
The song was recorded in 1967 and is backed by Lay Your Head Upon My Shoulder by The Move co-founder Ace Kefford – a track that would resurface on the 2003 album Ace (The Lost 1968 Tapes).
The disc will head to auction on Friday (January 15) at the Wessex Auction Rooms in Chippenham, England, with the online bidding set to get under way at 10.30am BST.
The disc is estimated to fetch between £6000 and £8000 and a snippet of Run Piper Run can be listened to below. In July 2020, an unreleased Bowie demo of I Do Believe I Love You sold at the Wessex Auction Rooms for £18,000.
David Bowie and Morrissey‘s live cover of T-Rex classic ‘Cosmic Dancer’ is set to be officially released this month. A digital download of the single is available, with the song also arriving on streaming services. (VMZ)
The pair linked up for the cover version during a show at The Forum in Los Angeles in 1991, and it has been widely circulated online in the two decades since.
On Friday November 13, a digital download of the single will be available, with the song also arriving on streaming services. A 7″ vinyl version of the single will then be r
eleased on February 19, 2021. On the other side of the single will be a cover of The Jam‘s ‘That’s Entertainment’, though asMorrissey’sofficial website points out, it is not the same version of the track as the 1993 version available on the internet.
Back in 2016, Morrissey notably omitted David Bowie from a list of this year’s celebrity deaths when speaking to the crowd at a Manchester hometown gig.
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eleased on February 19, 2021. On the other side of the single will be a cover of The Jam‘s ‘That’s Entertainment’, though as Morrissey’s official website points out, it is not the same version of the track as the 1993 version available on the internet.
