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Cigarettes and Cycling

David Bowie, Cycle touring, AdventureJames BriggsSeptember 16, 2021David Bowie, thin white duke, gitanes, cigarettes, Bike touring, cycle touring, life on mars, Beckenham, beckenham bandstand, Baix, France, ViaRhôna, Eurovelo, Bike packing, music, camping, cheese

Bowie and Bullfighting

MEET IGGY

“Every bike needs a good name” says friendly local Yolanda. Introducing Iggy…

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.

It's a god awful small affair

In 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.