Comments on: Brixton and David Bowie’s early years

By: michael whitehead

michael whitehead — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:40:34 +0000

Great to see Davy with his mum. I was the the drummmer with the Manish Boys. I see you ‘ve got me in the background on the first photo I’ve never seen before. Had a great ecperience did not make any money we were all broke. He was on our gigs for the time we were together until the record, tv show and Gene Pitney tour.

By: Jeremy Langford

Jeremy Langford — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:24:55 +0000

Hello
I have opened a Wikipedia page about Barry Langford- mentioned on your site regarding David Bowies early years. I now face image editors who want to remove pictures because of possible copyright infringements
I have used the image of my Father- Barry- with David Bowie in 1965- see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Langford
Is it possible for you to give me written permission to use this or to connect me directly to the copyright holder- if there is one.
Many thanks,
jeremy Langford

By: Angie Charalambous

Angie Charalambous — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:44:27 +0000

I always wondered why every time I go past Plaistow Road, Bromley, I get so nostalgic; perhaps because mum passed away in an old peoples’ home along this road; the black shiny doors and sad large trees flicker against my windscrreen every time I pass by in my car. I now realise that Bowie’s song ‘Life on Mars ‘ would be the ideal song to play along this road, if you’re ever in the vicinity !

By: fan

fan — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:22:48 +0000

hey, I like your pictures and would be interested in using them. do you have the sources? like their bibliography please?

thank you

By: sue feeney

sue feeney — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:24:21 +0000

I have thoroughly enjoyed all of this. Originally from Dudley (Worcs) and now washed up on Scotland’s beautiful west coast I was at the free festical at Beckenham Rec in August ’69 and remember it well. A magical day and the first time I saw my hero playing live. Living in Penge and working at an ad agency oppsite Beckenham Green I would often see Angie – with her mop of yellow hair – pushing a very young Zowie in his pushchair from my office window. My bank was LLoyds where I often saw Mick Ronson. Blissful days. The festival also featured “Gasworks” and “Chastity” and I remember my (barefoot) walk back to the station for the train to Penge East where I lived then. Years later in September ’74 my late husband John and I were married at St. John the Evangelist, Penge, in the parish of Beckenham. Much water under many bridges since then and I have some lovely memories. Thank you for posting this – I have really enjoyed my trip down memory lane. ) Sue

By: Margot

Margot — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 03:58:31 +0000

This is a excellent article on an excellent man! I love the pictures, especially David, Mum and Angie.
The other side to Hermione dumping David involved fidelity issues on his part, unsurprisingly. He said later that he loved her, but “I couldn’t for the life of me keep it zipped.” Cracks me up every time!

By: Helen

Helen — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:58:05 +0000

Nice pictures of Bowie I have never seen before. Thank you!!!

By: Rich2010

Rich2010 — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:10:26 +0000

Great site, thanks for the education. I thought I knew something about Bowie/Jones, but this has enlightened me. Back in the mid eighties me and a bunch of guys from Nottingham and Sheffield hosted the David Bowie World Convention at the Hammersmith Novotel. At the event was Lindsay Kemp (Bowie’s choreographer) who told me, before he made a pass at me, that he was Bowie’s lover for 7 years (then my mate went off with Kemp to his villa in Spain, I had no idea my mate was that way inclined at the time!). Also at the event was Ken Pitt (Bowie’s original manager) he was only interested in selling his book at the time and didn’t chat much. The event turned out to be a scam and the guys from Sheffield took off with the receipts without paying me out, or some of the creditors. But I did learn a lot about one of my favorite performers of all time, it’s a shame Bowie never showed up at the event but he didn’t endorse it at all, and was right to boycott.

Anyway, thanks for a great site!

Cheers Rich2010

By: calvin mark lee

calvin mark lee — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:46:47 +0000

greaat fotos and info how about stories on the ricky tick eal pie island etc i met the stones at studio 51 (leicester square basement) may 31??? 1963 1 night after i arrived in london after a train trip from new haven ct(yale) to san francisco ca to see my mom and a 20 day trip on the p&o i
liner oronsay ($500) remember arthur fromer wrote the book “europe on $5 a day” !!!!! when ian stewart was playing piano and miraccas (ian was on their early recordings) also neil aspinal was a roadie for the beatlies and later became head of apple corps ltd!!! ungotunatey both died in the last few years and lead me to believe you can only trust people you knew before you were famous unfortunately i have no fotoes from my 10 years in london (63-73)

keep up the ggod work and hook me up with your rss feeds thanks and hang loose

By: Bill Luther

Bill Luther — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:24:53 +0000

Excellent post! Anything David bowie 60′s related is right up my alley.

I did a very long winded bit on his debut long player awhile back:

http://anorakthing.blogspot.com/2008/10/david-bowie.html