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MONDAY 14 JANuARy L RECORDING Studio 2 Olympic Studios WEDNESDAY 9 ! 117 Church Road JANUARY FRIDAY 11 JANuARy Barnes L TUESDAY 1 RECORDING South West London, England Olympic Studios ‘DIAMOND DOGS’ ALBuM L RECORDING 117 Church Road ‘Rock’n’Roll With Me’ Studio 2 Barnes ‘Candidate’ Olympic Studios South West London, England ‘Big Brother’ 117 Church Road ASTRONETTES ALBuM ‘Diamond Dogs’ Barnes Andy Morris: Engineer South West London, England TUESDAY 8 JANuARy MSOCIALISING Photographer Kate Simon was at ‘Take It In Right’ (demo) 1005418kt ‘Candidate’ (demo) To celebrate his 27th birthday, Amanda Olympic on assignment for Disc, taking Lear took Bowie and George Underwood pictures of Stomu Yamashta, who Keith Harwood/Andy Morris: out to an afternoon screening of was recording in a room adjacent to Engineers Image to come Metropolis at the Everyman Cinema in Studio 2. After the session she ventured This early version of ‘Take It In Right’ Hampstead. next door. (later retitled ‘Can You Hear Me’) was a basic acoustic recording with lyrics still Kate Simon (2011) in progress. Bowie wrote it as a I can see David clearly now, sitting potential follow-up single for Lulu. behind the huge desk in the main room, ‘Candidate’ was written for the in a long green synthetic fur coat and projected musical based on Nineteen a green felt hat, singing and playing Eighty-Four. acoustic guitar. FRIDAY 11 JANuARy T Released on Diamond Dogs reissue I SINGLE RELEASED I was overwhelmed at how good he (Ryko 1990) and (as ‘Alternative LuLu was, just accompanying himself. And he Candidate’) on 30th Anniversary 2 CD ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ (3:58)/ was lovely, gave me absolute freedom Edition (EMI 2004). ‘Watch That Man’ (5:11) that day. He kept calling me ‘Bette’ – he UK (Polydor 2001 490) believed I looked like Bette Midler – and TUESDAY 1 ! Chart Peak No.3 once I was done, said: “Bette, do you ABOVE: Bowie listens to a SATURDAY 5 JANuARy Amanda Lear (1978) need a lift back into town?” THURSDAY 24 JANuARy David Bowie/Mick Ronson: Producers Diamond Dogs playback at L RECORDING It was a real big thing for him. He was so He was heading to Oakley Street and L RECORDING Olympic. Studio 2 paranoid about going out in daylight Bowie supplied the backing track and so I got a ride in this huge limousine to Studio 2 LEFT: Lulu back in the top 10 with and being recognised. We saw Fritz supervised the sound for Lulu’s my flat in Fulham. He was very, very Olympic Studios Olympic Studios the single Bowie produced and Lang’s Metropolis and David was in appearance on BBC’s Top Of The Pops, nice, but all the way – on what was 117 Church Road played on. 117 Church Road Barnes awe of it. He rented the film and ran it performing ‘The Man Who Sold The quite a long journey – he didn’t say a Barnes over and over again in his house. And World’ wearing a suit and fedora. word, until I got out. Then he said: “I’ll South West London, England WEDNESDAY 16 JANuARy South West London, England that’s where Diamond Dogs came from, see you again.”Maybe he was kind of ASTRONETTES ALBuM T Reissued on Oh! You Pretty Things: L RECORDING ‘DIAMOND DOGS’ ALBuM the whole staging and album and wistful thatday. [410] The Songs Of David Bowie (Castle 2006). Studio 2 everything Bowie got from Metropolis. Visitors to the Diamond Dogs sessions MONDAY 7 JANuARy Olympic Studios [194] ASTRONETTES ALBuM included Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend, ABuSINESS Lulu (2009) 117 Church Road With his days at Olympic numbered, Ron Wood and Rod Stewart, who After two years of overspending, It was very Berlin cabaret. ‘The Man Barnes Bowie used the German expressionist Bowie shelved the Astronettes project donated an uncredited sample from MainMan was running out of money. Who Sold The World’ saved me from a South West London, England film as a key reference point in the stage to concentrate on finishing his album. the opening track of Coast To Coast: The London office had no cash flow and certain niche in my career. [298] design of the new Diamond Dogs show. He promised Ava Cherry that they ‘DIAMOND DOGS’ ALBuM Overtures And Beginners – The Faces’ Corinne Schwab was fending off the would make her solo album later in ‘We Are The Dead’ live album released two weeks before. creditors. Olympic Studios threatened ABOVE: Amanda Lear: model, Bowie (1976) the States. Bowie sampled the roar of the crowd to ban Bowie from further sessions until muse, aspiring actress and later a It was hard for Lulu to do anything after The tapes of The Astronettes’ and Rod Stewart’s “Hey!” greeting they were paid £4,935 in outstanding queen of Euro disco. that with the particular thing that I sessions were retained by Tony DeFries for the opening of ‘Diamond Dogs’. fees. Cherry Vanilla contacted DeFries in LEFT: Bowie recorded most of gave her, and she started dressing up in Diamond Dogs at Olympic and eventually released as People New York asking him to pay Olympic so these funny suits and looking like a boy. Studios in Barnes, despite the From Bad Homes (Golden Years 1995). SATURDAY 26 JANuARy Bowie could complete the album. She was trying to get lost in my identity owners' threats to ban further % PRESS of her, so when I’d done Lulu I thought, sessions due to unpaid bills. (2008) NME reported that Bowie was working “I’d better stop doing this” because I felt Geoff MacCormack They were just demos that we on tracks ‘Big Brother’ and ‘Are You somewhat like a Svengali and it was abandoned to come back to at another Coming? Are You Coming?’ for the very easy for me to do that, fall into time. He had the tapes and without Nineteen Eighty-Four stage show, now that role. I was again giving vent to my asking anybody just put them out. renamed The 1980 Floor Show, “to avoid cinematic pretensions and creating To my ears, the music wasn’t good. any copyright problems which might little pastiche filmlet things for people They were just demos, just ideas being otherwise arise”. and casting them in roles and sort of thrown around. [280] directing the whole thing. [332] 19 74 WEDNESDAY 13 FEBRuARy FEBRUARY % PRESS Amstel Hotel I MIXING Amsterdam, Netherlands Good Earth Studios 9 Melrose Terrace Accompanied by Angie and Zowie, Shepherd’s Bush Bowie attended a press reception where London, England Ad Visser, host of Dutch music show Top Pop, presented Bowie with the Tony Visconti: Engineer Edison Award for the Most Popular With Olympic Studios no longer an Male Vocalist. option, Bowie had to look elsewhere Visser then poured them glasses of to finish the album and called up Schelvispekel, recalling they had drunk Tony Visconti for advice. it a few years before at Bowie’s house in London. Visser toasted the Bowies’ Tony Visconti (1982) health, explaining it was an old He said, “I’m having trouble mixing and fishermen’s drink. Bowie quipped, “It finishing this album, so why don’t we tastes like old fishermen.” get together again?” and he asked if I Bowie’s Burretti-designed outfit was could recommend a good studio. I said I inspired by Carmen, the flamenco rock was building my own, so he wanted to group who had appeared on The 1980 come and see it, and when he did, it Floor Show in October. obviously felt right, and he decided he must finish the album there. Bowie (1993) We didn’t even have chairs at that I had conjunctivitis so I made the most time, but he said it didn’t matter, and of it and dressed like a pirate. Just the next day he went to Habitat or some stopped short of the parrot. I had this place like that, and this big van showed most incredible jacket that I was up in front of my house, and out came wearing that night. It was a bottle-green tables, chairs, lounges and all that, and bolero jacket that Freddie made for me, he completely furnished my studio so and he got an artist to paint, using the that he could finish his album there. appliqué technique, this supergirl from We actually did our first day’s work, a Russian comic on the back. But I took before all the stuff arrived, sitting on a the jacket off during the press carpenter’s horse – we were sitting on conference and somebody stole it. [111] this horse mixing, and it was the following day, when everything arrived, that he % TELEVISION said, “Well, we couldn’t spend another AVRO Studio day sitting on this wooden horse.” [015] Hilversum, Netherlands TUESDAY 12 ‘TOP POP’ ‘Rebel Rebel’ ABuSINESS Since Bowie had to leave England for T Broadcast: February 18 (AVRO). tax reasons, RCA organised a short T Released on Best Of Bowie (EMI 2002). promotional tour of Holland for Bowie N AWARDS to promote ‘Rebel Rebel’, receive an That evening Bowie and Angie attended award and put the final touches on the Edison Awards ceremony in the album. Amsterdam. The Edisons – the Dutch equivalent of the Grammys – included a performance by Tony Orlando and Dawn singing their hit ‘Tie A Yellow Ribbon’. Orlando broke off singing the last verse when he spotted Bowie and LEFT AND ABOVE: With Angie Angie in the audience: “I can’t believe and Zowie at the Amstel Hotel, what I see… Is that you? Is that really Amsterdam.