Serious Moonlight tour, 176
Sex Pistols, 91
Sigma Sound, 108
Simms, Frank, 178, 181
Simms, George, 178, 181, 202
Slick, Earl, 105, 118, 126, 179, 181, 207, 210, 213
Sound + Vision, 196
“Space Oddity,” 37, 42
Space Oddity, 86
Spector, Phil, 85
Spiders from Mars, 54, 56
Springsteen, Bruce, 112
St. John, Bridget, 40
Stage tour, 149, 156
Station to Station, 121, 126, 131
Stein, Chris, 141
Stooges, 53, 64
Stopps, David, 70
T. Rex, 48, 59
Talmy, Shel, 22
Taylor, Roger, 70, 170
Taylor, Vince, 69
Temple, Julien, 185, 186, 188
“The Diary of Nathan Adler, or the Art-Ritual Murder of Baby Grace Blue,” 201
Thin White Duke persona, 8, 10
Thompson, Tony, 175, 178
Thomson, Malcolm, 38
Thurston, Colin, 141
Tin Machine, 185, 194
Tin Machine, 196
Tin Machine II, 197
Tonight, 10, 184
Torn, David, 213
Townshend, Pete, 164
Toy (unreleased), 207
Troyna, Gerry, 183
Turner, Tina, 185
“Under Pressure” (with Queen), 170
Underwood, George, 15, 20, 56, 67, 82
Van Hove, Ivo, 216
Vandross, Luther, 108
Vaughan, Stevie Ray, 175, 179
Velvet Underground, 34, 53, 63
Verlaine, Tom, 164
Vernon, Mike, 29
Vincent, Gene, 53
The Virgin Soldiers (film), 36
Wakeman, Rick, 62
Walsh, Enda, 217
Warhol, Andy, 63, 82, 87, 152
Weeks, Willie, 108
“Where Are We Now?,” 211
Who, the, 189
Williamson, James, 160
Wilshaw, Brian, 85, 86
Woodmansey, Woody, 47, 54, 56, 66, 85, 87, 90, 92
Yellowbeard, 176
Yentob, Alan, 108, 111
Young Americans, 108, 109, 113
Young, Roy, 132, 134
Zanetta, Tony, 59, 61, 63, 65
Ziggy Stardust persona, 8, 56, 69, 73, 82, 91
About the Author
PAT GILBERT has been writing about music and film for over twenty-five years. He is a former editor of MOJO, the world’s biggest-selling music magazine, and these days edits its offshoot, MOJO ’60s. Pat is also the author of Passion Is A Fashion, the definitive biography of The Clash, and has provided sleeve notes for the group’s official releases since the late ’90s. In 2002, he had the honor of stepping aside from his MOJO role for a month to enable David Bowie to guest-edit the magazine. Pat lives in London, not far from Bowie’s old family home in Bromley.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Gilbert, Pat, author.
Title: Bowie : the illustrated story / by Pat Gilbert.
Description: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Voyageur Press, 2017. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017010464 | ISBN 9780760352663 (paper over board)
Subjects: LCSH: Bowie, David. | Rock musicians--England--Biography.
Classification: LCC ML420.B754 G55 2017 | DDC 782.42166092 [B] --dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017010464
Acquiring editor: Dennis Pernu
Project manager: Jordan Wiklund
Art director: Cindy Samargia Laun
Cover illustration: Clémence Rolland
Cover design: Laura Drew
Interior design and layout: Brad Norr
Endpapers: In concert at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, on July 3, 1973—the last gig he performed as Ziggy Stardust.
Title pages: A young Bowie in London, 1966.
Copyright page: Performing “Rebel Rebel” on the Dutch TV show TopPop, Hilversum, the Netherlands, February 1974.
Table of contents: Onstage at Madison Square Garden, New York City, on the Serious Moonlight tour, July 27, 1983.