And how could this not be the right time for him Jeff McCormack. When she was eight years old, she met a little boy at Burnt Ash Primary School in Kent. David Jones. The boy grew up to be for all of us David Bowie however, for McCormack, he continued to be a childhood friend he met in the early grades of elementary school, someone with whom he shared his passion for music as a teenager.

Even when Bowie called him one day to say “You will go on tour with me.” An offer McCormack couldn’t refuse. The calendar was 1973, and lightning flashed across Bowie’s face, asking, “Who will love Aladdin Sein?” His childhood friend quit his job as an advertiser to join his band under the pseudonym Pun. Warren Peace.

Together they toured the world in his decade ’70, stepping from Japan to the Soviet Union, overcoming endless nautical miles on a ship. Jeff McCormack continued to be the British musician’s studio companion even during filming. “The Man Who Fell to the Ground” from Nikolsky reg.

He always had a camera in his hand (just over five minutes). Some of what he recorded with her is collected in his new book. “David Bowie: Rock and Roll with Me” – after all, they wrote the title track from “Diamond Dogs” together. In this episode, Jeff McCormack attempts to tell in words and images the story of a sixty year old friendship and a musical phenomenon that will live forever.

David was my second oldest friend, we met when we were both eight years old. My oldest friend is George Underwood, whom I met when I was four years old. In this sense, they are both different.

“Humble is putting it mildly. It was terribly modest, I remember him standing in line to get into MoMA with everyone until someone from the museum came and let him in. And, as you know, he refused all honors and titles offered to him, such as the title of “master”, when the majority could not resist them.

He never liked being called a chameleon. The chameleon becomes invisible.

I didn’t have any expectations, just fear of the unknown. However, when a person is young, he feels ready for anything.

Japan was the most alien and impressive experience, it was almost creepy.

Yes, it’s completely unrealistic. You lose all sense of normalcy and it takes an awful long time to adjust. In fact, some are never rebuilt.

– Photography was purely a hobby for me for about five minutes – it just so happened that five minutes were needed.

– It is very difficult for me to choose a favorite photo of him from my collection, but it touches me that people like these photos.

“He has clearly always been the boy at school in terms of our friendship.

– His humour.

“It gave me courage. As the others.

Jeff McCormack’s David Bowie: Rock and Roll with Me is published by ACC Art Books.