8/1/2023 0 Comments Biff rose give yourselfIt’s a haunted house of hard rock and Hammer Horror-folk, monster riffage shreds speakers, ghostly Moogs and Stylophones chill spines in a Magickal Mystery Tour through mythological gay sex, madness, power-hungry computers, Nietzschean supermen and men who aren’t really there at all. Spurred on by Angie, Bowie acquires Mr Fish dresses, he’ll be captured wearing one reclining on a chaise longue on another sleeve for the record he’ll later describe as ’all family problems and analogies put into science fiction form’. It’ll find itself on the original cover of ‘The Man Who Sold The World’, looming ominously in the background of Mike Waller’s cowboy comic-strip art. Burns’ home is a 30 minute drive away, Croydon’s Cane Hill psychiatric hospital. A mid-Victorian gothic lair in leafy suburbia surrounded by huge gardens, Haddon Hall has a regular visitor, Bowie’s half-brother Terry Burns. The Hype move into Flat 7, Haddon Hall, 42 Southend Road, Beckenham, Kent, the Bowies’ residence since October 1969 (by April Cambridge will be replaced by another Hullensian, Woody Woodmansey). June brings a remake of last year’s Memory Of A Free Festival, now split in two parts, sprinkled with stardust from Ronson’s Les Paul and Ralph Mace’s Moog, a hippy predecessor to 1972’s ‘Starman’. New guitarist Mick Ronson is Gangsterman, Tony Visconti on bass is Hypeman and drummer John Cambridge has become Cowboyman. With a band billed as The Hype, Bowie takes to the stage of Camden’s Roundhouse as Rainbow Man. A delicately orchestrated love letter to Angela Barnett whom he marries that spring, it features friend-rival Marc Bolan on guitar. ‘A star shoots upwards,’ proclaims the paper’s pages and when Major Tom’s odyssey scoops an Ivor Novello that May who can disagree? Except March’s follow-up 45, ‘The Prettiest Star’ sinks without trace. In February, readers vote him Disc And Music Echo’s Brightest Hope, receiving his award he’s resplendent in a double-breasted caramel cord suit at London’s Café Royal, rubbing shoulders with Cliff, Lulu and Cilla. January comes with a Mirabelle cover, his dreamy eyes and golden locks hurtling towards teen walls. Last year’s ‘Space Oddity’ seemed to be his lift-off into the pop stratosphere. Her play, JAMAICA FAREWELL was optioned and produced by Rita Wilson (Tom Hanks wife) and Oscar-winner, Garry Marshall at the Falcon theatre and is currently optioned for film by Oscar winning Producer, Jeremy Thomas in London.It’s 1970 and David Bowie is spinning in a very strange orbit. Previous solo productions include Mango, Mango which received two NAACP Awards and Invisible Chairs, produced by David Strasberg at the Marilyn Monroe Theatre in West Hollywood and later optioned as a situation comedy by Fox and Cock Tales: Shame on Me! which garnered rave reviews. Instead, she decided to write and perform her own stories based on her colorful life in Jamaica and has performed all over the world. After graduating drama school in New York, she was advised by Producers and agents to lose her strong Jamaican accent as that would limit work for her. As she grew up, she dreamed of coming to America to study theatre. At the tender age of seven, Kingston, Jamaica native, DEBRA EHRHARDT started telling stories in a Mango tree to entertain herself and her friends.
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