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Friday I'm In Love

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.

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Househunting with David Bowie

Switzerland - 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...

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Bowie's Barcelona

For 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.

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The mid-life crisis just got real

On 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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