He still often dons a cross around his neck. Bowie was at one time heavily into the esoteric arts, but had a very, very scary experience in conjuring and went screeching back to the Christianity of his youth. The Dynamic Duo of late 70s hard rock, Iggy Pop and David Bowie, perform together on this classic live album - with Pop on vocals and Bowie on keyboards - available on both CD and 12' vinyl- Recorded live at the Agora Ballroom in Cleveland OH, March 21, 1977, the show includes wild performances of Iggys classics such as 'Raw Power, ' 'I. They stopped for an infamous seven hours, eating a caviar lunch and taking in some tourist highlights, including Lenin’s tomb, before heading to Helsinki. Bowie has always been big on black women, as was his ex, Angie, both bedding Eva Cherry, Bowie's background singer in the 70's. Ostensibly in order to slightly deflect attention from his fiery hair, he put on a dazzling yellow jacket with a zipper, a bright yellow scarf, orange pants and shoes with three-inch heels.” Bowie also wore a “feminine large soft cap” to GUM.īowie’s second trip to Russia was in April 1976 when he invited Iggy Pop, photographer Andrew Kent and acting manager Pat Gibbons on a trip to Moscow from Zurich during a tour hiatus. MacCormack would go on to write in his book Station to Station: Travels with Bowie 1973-1976 that Bowie was the “wildest spectacle in the city. The former reflected upon Pop’s relationship with his Asian girlfriend Keulan Nguyen, and Bowie would later re-record it for his multi-platinum 1983 album, Let’s Dance. Bowie visited Iggy and invited him on tour. It was strange to be sitting in a train, which is the product of technology - the invention of mankind, and travelling through land so untouched and unspoilt by man and his inventions.”īowie and MacCormack stayed for three days in Moscow, watching the May Day parade, checking out the GUM department store and visiting the Kremlin. The intervention Iggy refers to occurred in 1976, after the Stooges breakup, when Pop spiraled out of control and checked into a UCLA mental hospital. Of the week-long rail trip Bowie later wrote like a natural philosopher in teen magazine Mirabelle: “I could never have imagined such expanses of unspoilt, natural country without actually seeing it myself, it was like a glimpse into another age, another world, and it made a very strong impression on me. The intervention Iggy refers to occurred in 1976, after the Stooges breakup, when Pop spiraled out of control and checked into a UCLA mental hospital. En route from Yokohama to Nakhodka aboard the SS Felix Dzerzhinsky, Bowie performed an impromptu gig which reportedly included Jacques Brel’s Port of Amsterdam while MacCormack played the congas. ![]() Whether it was the Starman’s fear of flying that prompted the adventure, or his desire to see Russia, the always unconventional Bowie took the Trans-Siberian railway from Vladivostok to Moscow with his childhood friend and backup singer Geoff MacCormack. In April 1973, after finishing the Japan leg of his Ziggy Stardust tour, David Bowie returned to Europe by land.
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