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  A Bowie Celebration review – a starry tribute concert for a mind-blowing talent

  A Bowie Celebration review – a starry tribute concert for a mind-blowing talentFive years on from David Bowie’s death, bandmate Mike Garson leads an epic lineup, from Billy Corgan to Adam Lambert, in three hours of livestreamed sound and vision

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  A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day, review: the only thing missing was the star man

  There was something suitably sci-fi about this weekend’s A Bowie Celebration, broadcast from Los Angeles in the middle of a dystopian pandemic (delayed 24 hours “due to difficulties in the world”). Musicians were projected onto life-sized screens arranged around other socially distanced musicians on a sound stage, then beamed by the power of the internet into the computer devices of a global audience. Somewhere, in another dimension, you could imagine Ziggy Stardust nodding his approval. All the

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  Bowie’s piano man, Mike Garson: ‘My jazz friends excommunicated me for working with David’

  In the autumn of 1972, Mike Garson was earning five dollars a night playing piano in a club on 69th Street and Broadway, in Manhattan. Despite being part of a group that featured saxophonist Dave Liebman and bass player Steve Swallow, later to work with Miles Davis and Stan Getz respectively, the musicians’ lengthy sets were usually seen by fewer than 10-people. Schlepping home to his wife and baby daughter in Brooklyn, the 27-year old realised that he needed a new gig. Luck was waiting in the w

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  2020 would have inspired trilogy of Bowie albums, says collaborator

  Pianist Mike Garson first played with the late star in 1972.

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  The Telegraph

  'You naughty boys': how David Bowie was tricked into playing Glastonbury 2000

  In May 2000 David Bowie was sitting in his New York apartment wondering what he’d done. “I find my present situation more than a little confusing actually as I really don’t remember why I agreed to close this year’s Glastonbury Festival in the first place,” he wrote in his diary. “It couldn’t be more inconvenient in a way, now knowing that our pregnancy is well and truly for real. It means losing a clutch of days away from home. Days that I get more and more precious over.” Bowie, then 53, and h

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  The Independent

  Cocaine, no sleep and deep soul: The story of David Bowie’s Young Americans

  It wasn’t just the alien eyes, the golden disc embedded in his forehead or the shock of Martian mullet – the creature known as Ziggy Stardust had a strange pulse too, a vibration in his veins that no earthly drug could have given him. Pianist Mike Garson, drawn from the jazz world to bring jagged avant-garde shapes to 1973’s Aladdin Sane, saw it in him as they travelled together on Ziggy’s farewell tour, gazing out at America through tinted glass with a mixture of awe, infatuation and hunger. Zi

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  Evening Standard

  Meet Chas, he's been mad about Bowie since he was a lad

  “You’ve got to talk to Chas,” says my friend Natasha. “He was there the time David got out of the car!” I go and talk to Chas, who can barely contain his excitement. “Yes,” says Chas breathlessly, keen to continue his story.

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