Bowie 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 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 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.
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