David Bowie and Marc Bolan in rehearsal at Granada Television in 1977. In the early years of my TV career at one of Britain’s leading independent television companies, Granada, I came across many famous people and soon found…
David Bowie (1947 – 2016) I was truly amazed when I first came across an album by this man with the proudly flaunted chicken-chest and daringly challenging face makeup. I had, of course, loved Major Tom and Ziggy Stardust…
Chris Hadfield – Space Oddity He looks like any other dad who can play a bit of guitar and sing along to a few golden oldies but in Chris Hadfield’s he gave air guitar a whole new meaning by playing…
Where are we now? Indeed. Where are we? For anyone like me who’s grown up with David Bowie, it is an apt question. There were so many hopes when Ziggie first learned to play guitar and when we all thought…
I suspect, from what scientists are discovering, that there really is or was life on Mars – it is certainly the freakiest place and sunsets there are truly eerie – I love the idea of a blue sunset but life…