Bowie rocked up resplendent in a sharp, late 80s exec suit whilst Iman risked clashing with the fabrics in a lime trouser suit and funky white shades. Such was this clandestine affair, unshowy and completely the opposite of their respective music and fashion worlds, not even the press discovered they had gotten married until a full ten days later.
Read MoreBowie created a whole glut of albums in his twenty years in Switzerland. He hung out with Charlie Chaplin, jammed with Nile Rodgers and perhaps most famously of all, recorded ‘Under Pressure’ with Queen. We went to Mountain Studios in Montreux to learn how it was recorded in a haze of squabbles, cocaine and wine.
Read MoreSwitzerland - country number three! David Bowie lived here on and off for twenty years so we thought we'd track down some of the houses he lived in by bike...
Read More“Every bike needs a good name” says friendly local Yolanda. Introducing Iggy…
Read MoreMy David Bowie bike ride From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads continues over the Pyrenees from Spain into France.
Read MoreAfter a sun-scorched ride through Catalonia I land in Figueres, the home of Salvador Dali, to explore how his surrealist art influenced and inspired David Bowie, that and got trapped in a tidal wave of old French women at the Dali museum.
Read MoreAs I leave Barcelona under the blaze of midday sun and set out along cycling along the Costa Brava searching for David Bowie and his legacy
Read MoreFor Bowie’s Bowie first ever gig on the Spanish mainland there was swings, telephones, spoken word song introductions, blinding visuals and backing dancers all embroidered together for the largest touring set ever. Bowie thought of it as taking a musical on the road.
Read MoreOff the plane into 36 degree heat. One faulty water bottle, 13 miles of motorways and one nervous dehydrated wreck later, I channel Bowie’s early bohemian phase and stumble into La Playa, Ibiza’s original hippy campsite.
Read MoreOn 11th September, 2016, aged 36, I did likewise, leaving London to look for the meaning of David Bowie’s Life on Mars? and in doing so, abandoning all sense of reality. On a glorious autumn morning, with the sky as blue as the suit Bowie wore in the song’s video, I loaded up and turned to face the strangest journey I would ever undertake.
Read MoreIn 1969 David Robert Jones went to the Beckenham Recreation Ground bandstand and sat down to write a song. Life on Mars? would go on to become one of his most iconic songs and one of the greatest of the 20th century. It would also inspire me to cycle one of its lyrics, ‘From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads.’ The following pictures and diary entries are the story of that trip.
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