This intimate account of life on tour with David Bowie, includes in-depth personal insights about touring, hotel life, groupies, fans and Bowies personal life, unpublished photographs of Bowie on stage and behind the scenes and insider account of recording with Bowie, Eno and Visconti.
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* Touring, hotel life, drugs, groupies, fans, and Bowie’s private life.
* The recording of the classic albums Lodger and double live LP Stage.
* Never-before-seen photos of Bowie, both on stage and behind the scenes.
* The legendary recording sessions with Brian Eno and Toni Visconti.
* Full 1978 tour chronology.
* The recording of the classic albums Lodger and double live LP Stage.
* Never-before-seen photos of Bowie, both on stage and behind the scenes.
* The legendary recording sessions with Brian Eno and Toni Visconti.
* Full 1978 tour chronology.
About the Author
Sean Mayes was the keyboard player in Fumble during the early Seventies. It was during an appearance on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1972 that he met and formed a long lasting friendship with David Bowie. Sean has also written biographies of Kate Bush and Joan Armatrading.
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If you're a Bowie nut and are over thirty you probably saw Sean Mayes play. He tickled the ivories on Bowie's STAGE tour in 1978, and went on to play on the LODGER sessions and notable singles such as MOON OF ALABAMA. This is the most inimate glimpse of rock's prettiest star, a diary of that tour from the inside out and the outside in. Bowie comes across as a very ordinary guy.........and simultaneously the most out-of-this world extraordinary superstar. Truly the most creative explosion in seventies rock, he was here coming down from the excesses of earlier years and appears as both the boy in the band and the star out front. Mayes writes with a candour and a sense of fun that puts this in a class with Ian Hunter's DIARY OF A ROCK'N'ROLL STAR (- if you ain't read that one, read it tomorrow!!!!) as a crystal-clear snapshot of seventies rock at its very best.
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Sean Mayes, and also his family were good friends of mine, we all moved away and eventually lost contact, so, it has been an emotional read.
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I didn't love this book and it wasn't quite what I expected, but I did like it. There is actually very little about Bowie himself, but it is an excellent first hand account of life on tour with a mega star.
I was surprised (I'm sure I shouldn't have been) by how little time Bowie spent with the individual band members (I'm sure he has much more important things to do).
Sean speaks about Bowie in quite a reverential way, and is unfaillingly kind about him. I found it quite touching how in awe of Bowie he seemed.
Overall, a very enjoyable read. Well written, with a nice pacey style. Just don't expect any revelations about The Duke!
I was surprised (I'm sure I shouldn't have been) by how little time Bowie spent with the individual band members (I'm sure he has much more important things to do).
Sean speaks about Bowie in quite a reverential way, and is unfaillingly kind about him. I found it quite touching how in awe of Bowie he seemed.
Overall, a very enjoyable read. Well written, with a nice pacey style. Just don't expect any revelations about The Duke!
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