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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David Bowie, includes in-depth personal insights about touring, hotel life, groupies, fans and Bowies personal life, unpublished photographs of Bowie on stage and behind the scenes and insider account of recording with Bowie, Eno and Visconti.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.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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.......take your protein pills and put your helmet on!,
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This review is from: We Can Be Heroes - Life On Tour With David Bowie (Paperback)
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.
3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Thanks for the memories...,
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This review is from: We Can Be Heroes - Life On Tour With David Bowie (Paperback)
As a fresh faced 19 year old my head was full of girls,clothes, and music. The music of choice was anything by "David Bowie", so when it was announced that "Bowie" was playing his first live shows in 5 years on Scottish soil a big cheer issued from my lips. I had been to one date of the "Aladdin Sane" tour in 1973 when I was 14 the imppression it had made on me has lasted to this day. So I knew the first gig of the Scottish dates was going to be a "cracker" in all there were 4 shows at the "Glasgow Apollo" a now legendary venue as it is no longer with us. After finding out you where limited to 4 tickets per person and I worked in a very poorly paid job at the time. I made the choice of the first 2 dates, all this information came back to me after reading this book. What has been published and put together by "Kevin Cann" using Sean notes and diaries was a great trip down memory lane, bringing back such bittersweet thoughts,like as I boarded the train the following day after the second gig I had tickets for and thinking those shows were superb but there are 2 more shows and I can't afford to go on. I'm sure if "Sean" was still with us the book would have been longer for his notes would have sparked off things that were in his head, so thanks "Sean" for having the foresight to document the tour and reminding me of those days when I still had a fresh face and "Bowie" was more of a cult and not the superstar he is now. This book brought a warm feeling to this middle aged man,so if you were like me and saw any the dates of this tour or like "Bowies" music buy the book it's "Living Nostalgia" to quote the man...
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4.0 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews) 2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Short but interesting tour,
By "turfcat" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: We Can Be Heroes - Life On Tour With David Bowie (Paperback)
This is an intriguing view of David Bowie's life when on tour in 1978. It is an view most people do not get to see. It is especially interesting to see who he was then prior to his mega wealth, but at a very popular point in his career. A must for an avid David Bowie fan.
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Interesting book but it's not all about Bowie,
By A. Jones - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: We Can Be Heroes - Life On Tour With David Bowie (Paperback)
This is a really interesting book about the highs and lows of being on a major year long tour in the late 1970s. Long before the Serious Moonlight tour changed how the game is played. First class travel and high end parties one day, crappy hotels and seedy bars the next. What is unusual and interesting is the constant search for casual sex which runs through the book, with females, but mostly males. It's not done in a seedy way but don't buy if this type of thing bothers you. Also if you are expecting the majority of the book to be about the actual shows and Bowie then again this isn't for you. The shows are discussed and it's interesting but it's mainly in passing (also the photos aren't anything special). It's clear that Bowie enjoyed Sean Mayes company and Mayes admired Bowie hugely and there is lots of interesting anecdotes of time they spent together and how Bowie handled his fans. If nothing else it made we want to break out my copy of Stage and give it a spin.
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