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From Station to Station is the untold story of three years writing, recording, performing, living and travelling with David Bowie. Friends since childhood, Geoff MacCormack joined Bowie's band as a backing singer following the release of Ziggy Stardust. He stayed by his side through six albums, five tours, one film and numerous adventures.
Illustrated with personal and previously unpublished photographs, this limited edition book offers a rare glimpse into life with music's greatest chameleon.
'Bowie wearing only his underwear while playing to adoring fans in Tokyo, meeting Russian villagers after stepping off the Trans-Siberian Railway or the filming The Man Who Fell to Earth in New Mexico… McCormack's years with Bowie seem to have been "the freakiest show" - but it's clear that he had the time of his life.' BBC News
'During the part of 1973, I had two huge strokes of luck and good fortune. Firstly, while working in a London office I got a call from a childhood friend called David Jones. David Jones was now David Bowie and he invited me to join his band, The Spiders,
'The second piece of luck was that David wouldn't fly. Thus we would have to travel the thousands of miles around the world by ship, train and road.''
'We were every inch the freakiest show in town'
From Station to Station captures this 'freakiest show' in over 200 photographs and items of memorabilia, including tour programmes, tickets and letters, from the author's personal archives, nearly all of which are being published for the first time.
Geoff MacCormack first met David Jones at Burnt Ash Primary School in Bromley when they were just eight years old.
Schooldays behind them, David Jones metamorphosed into David Bowie while Geoff worked at a string of clothes boutiques and even as a runner and occasional singer for the BBC Radio One DJ Emperor Rosko. But the two remained friends.
When David asked Geoff to join his band as a backing singer and percussionist, he was already well on the way to superstardom. The album Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars had conquered the UK charts six months previously in June of 1972. Bowie had played to a sold-out Carnegie Hall in New York in September and followed his debut US tour with a packed-out homecoming gig at London's Rainbow Theatre on Christmas Eve.
Published in a limited edition of only 2,000 copies, each book is individually numbered and signed by both Geoff MacCormack and David Bowie, who also provides the foreword.
David Bowie has signed a facsimile reproduction of an original 'While You Were Out' memo collected from the time he spent on the road, the sea and on the rail with school friend and companion Geoff MacCormack from 1973-76. The hand-signed bookplate is pasted onto the inside front cover of your limited edition book.Select from the following editions:
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Introduced and signed by David Bowie. Three years writing, recording, performing, living and travelling with The Man Who Fell To Earth.
Since 1974 Genesis has created signed limited edition books on behalf of authors and artists ranging from the Beatles to Buckingham Palace.
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