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Daily Mirror
2 days ago
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- Daily Mirror
Can you guess the location of each album cover?
David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust cover was shot as monochrome and vividly coloured afterwards but it's of a real location can you guess the place and for the locations for seven other iconic album covers Fans were stunned when American pop-rock band Haim featured a photo of themselves on Portland Street near Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens on the front of their new single, Take Me Back. They are far from the only band to put a UK street firmly on the uber-cool place map by using it on a record cover. The Beatles did it, as did Oasis, The Clash, The Jam, The Streets and Madness - to name but a few - as this great gallery of album covers shows. Now it's time to put your musical and geographical knowledge to the test. Take a look at the album covers and the photographs and see if you can name that street! 1. Manchester's Oasis went down south to film the cover of this iconic album, which celebrates its 20th anniversary. The setting was a popular location for record shops in the 1990s. 2. The Jam's 1977 masterpiece This Is the Modern World shows Paul Weller, Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler, lurking under an overpass. That same year The Clash refers to the same road in their song about a certain city burning. 3. And pigs might fly … according to Pink Floyd's 1977 Animals album cover. But where is the landmark, that has recently had a very impressive facelift? 4. David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust cover was shot as monochrome and vividly coloured afterwards. The K West sign that hung above a furrier in 1982 has now been removed, but it remains an iconic street for Bowie fans 5. In 1977, The Clash released their debut studio album with a cove true to the spirit of punk rock—in a bohemian area popular with rebels young and old and home to iconic music venues like The Roundhouse. 6. The Beatles made this zebra crossing famous worldwide when it was used on the cover of their1969 studio album. Fans still flock here to recreate the image, outside the recording home of the Merseyside beat. But where is it? Lamar's 2015 Pimp A Butterfly album cover was shot in atmospheric monochrome and features a large group of black men and children, plus a baby cradled by Lamar himself on this US lawn, belonging to possibly the world 's most famous house. 8. English rapper Mike Skinner from The Streets chose this building in East Anglia for his 2011 Computer and Blues album after playing a student gig here. Answers: What's The Story Morning Glory, Berwick Street. Soho, London. The Westway, West London Battersea Power Station 23 Heddon Street, Soho, London, Alleyway directly opposite the band's 'Rehearsal Rehearsals' HQ in Camden Market, North London Abbey Road, near Abbey Road Studios, North West London The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. Norfolk Terrace halls of residence at the University of East Anglia.
BBC News
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Photos of David Bowie in Dorset in the 1970s on display in Poole
An exhibition has been showcasing candid photographs of David Bowie, including some taken by a close friend during a trip to a seaside town in the MacCormack captured the images of Bowie when he had a gig at Winter Gardens Bournemouth on May 25, had been friends with the star since their schooldays and went on tour with him as a backing vocalist and exhibition at Canvas Gallery in Poole will run until Saturday before it moves to Canvas Gallery Winchester from 24 May. "I certainly got shots of him that a professional photographer, doing a gig, clicking away, wouldn't have got," Mr MacCormack said he recalled the day the Ziggy Stardust tour reached Dorset."I remember Bournemouth because I took a couple of snaps of fans. There was a Rolls Royce there," he said."You've got to remember that almost overnight he became a sensation through Ziggy Stardust. That was the point at which his image exploded onto the world." 'Holiday snaps' Another photo captures Bowie sleeping on the Trans-Siberian Express during the Ziggy Stardust tour, which visited Russia. Mr MacCormack said: "I was up earlier than him and I just saw this picture and I thought 'how fabulous, what a great composition.'" The collection, called Canvas to Canvas, reveals a different view of Bowie, only seen by those who knew him personally. "We had costumes made for us, which were outlandish, and we were taught how to dance and apply makeup, but it was all a fantasy thing. I travelled with David because he was my friend."I wasn't taking photographs for anything other than holiday snaps." You can follow BBC Dorset on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
BBC News
27-04-2025
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- BBC News
Why David Bowie slept on platform at Stockport train station
As commuters pass through Stockport railway station, many of them will not ever realise that they could be waiting for a train on a platform with a claim to fame like no is because 55 years earlier, it was graced by none other than singer David five star hotels, the Ziggy Stardust performer spent the entire night under the stars (sort of) in Greater a plaque is being unveiled to commemorate the exact moment Bowie missed his last train home after a sell-out at the Poco A Poco club in Heaton Chapel on 27 April the trio who booked David Bowie for a gig as sixth-formers have been reminiscing on the "incredible" Acton, 72, admits she had never heard of Bowie when the Stockport Schools Student Union (SSU) booked him, while Bill Frost recalled being called out of class when Bowie's agent called the school office to rearrange the gig. Ms Acton said of the artist, who went on to global success with hits including Let's Dance, Changes, Space Oddity, Starman, Modern Love, Heroes, Under Pressure, Rebel Rebel and Life on Mars, "To be quite honest I didn't know who David Bowie was. "That sounds incredible but I hadn't got a clue who he was and the boys said we'll book him." Ms Acton added she soon became a fan of the singer, though."He was drop-dead gorgeous," she Frost, the chairman of the SSU at the time, knew all too well Bowie was on the verge of stardom, though."It was an amazing do," the 73-year-old told BBC North West Tonight. "It was incredible."I remember sitting at the back thinking 'good grief we've put David Bowie on in a concert'."Mr Frost recalls Bowie costing "about £120" to book at the time and remembers leaving class to speak to Bowie's agent. "One of the school secretaries came and knocked on the door and said 'there's somebody on the phone for you, something to do with David Bowie'."It was David Bowie's agent asking us if we could we change the date of the concert because they could not come up to Stockport on that day." Mike McCormack said: "It just all went by us and then in later life and David Bowie became massive."The 72-year-old said people are amazed when he tells them he was part of putting a Bowie concert on. It often leads to handshakes - and sometimes a Acton said it was "great times"."We had no fear. We just thought we could do anything and we did."It was a fantastic time," she added. Bowie, who died in 2016 aged 69, ended up missing his last train to London after the gig famous night in 1970 is being marked at the station with a Stockport Music Story commemorative plaque, the tenth one in the town. John Barratt of the Stockport Music Story said this latest plaque was "very special because I'm a lifelong David Bowie fan". "He was recording The Man Who Sold the World album during the time he came up for the gig and that album and then obviously Ziggy Stardust just launched him as a global superstar," he said."The fact that he was booked by a group for Stockport teenagers on his rise to fame I think deserves commemorating." Listen to the best of BBC Radio Manchester on Sounds and follow BBC Manchester on Facebook, X, and Instagram and watch BBC North West Tonight on BBC iPlayer.
The Independent
30-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Sex Pistols star reveals band stole equipment from David Bowie
Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones admitted to stealing equipment from David Bowie 's final Ziggy Stardust show in 1973. Jones stole cymbals, an amplifier, and a lipstick-stained microphone from the Hammersmith Odeon. He later confessed to Bowie, who found the incident amusing as the microphone wasn't actually his. Jones made amends with the drummer, Mick Woodmansey, by giving him several hundred dollars. The Sex Pistols, now with Frank Carter replacing John Lydon, announced their first North American tour in two decades.
The Independent
30-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Sex Pistols star once confessed to stealing from David Bowie: ‘He thought it was funny'
A member of the Sex Pistols has revealed they once stole equipment from David Bowie during his last Ziggy Stardust show in 1973. Three years before the punk rock band rose to fame with the release of their debut single 'Anarchy in the UK', guitarist Steve Jones snuck into the Hammersmith Odeon to steal supplies from the pop star. Jones, 69, who rocked up to the venue in a stolen minivan at 2AM, managed to drive off with Bowie's band's cymbals, the bass player's amplifier and a microphone with Bowie's lipstick on it. Speaking to The Guardian, Jones explained: 'They played two nights, and after the first night they left all the gear up, because they were playing there the next night. I knew the Hammersmith Odeon like the back of my hand, I used to bunk in there all the time. I was like the Phantom of Hammersmith Odeon.' He continued: 'It was about two in the morning. I stole a little minivan and I got in. There was no one there, other than a guy sitting on the fourth or fifth row, asleep – he was snoring. 'It was dead silent. I tiptoed across the stage, and I nicked some cymbals, the bass player's [amplifier] head – a Sunn amp it was – and some microphones. I got Bowie's microphone with his lipstick on it!' Jones later confessed the crime to Bowie who 'thought it was funny' – because the microphones weren't actually his. It was drummer Mick Woodmansey and bass player Trevor Bolder who truly suffered a blow. 'I actually did make amends with Woody,' Jones revealed. 'He came on my radio show a few years back, and I thought I'd tell him live.' The guitarist asked Woodmansey what he could do to make it up to him for stealing his cymbals, to which the drummer asked for 'a couple of hundred bucks'. 'I think I gave him $300 (£231),' Jones said. 'So, he was well happy.' Elsewhere in the interview, Jones revealed the most chaotic thing that ever happened on stage with the Sex Pistols was during a gig they played at a club in Milwaukee with a 'ridiculously high stage' in 1996. 'It was about 20 foot,' he recalled. 'Some guy walked on the stage, I don't know how he got through John [Lydon]'s security, Rambo, saw him and came running across the stage. 'He grabbed the guy, the guy hit John, and John fell off the stage, head first,' he continued. 'And I thought, that's the end of that. But he got up and carried on!' It comes after the 2025 iteration of the Sex Pistols — Jones, Paul Cook, Glen Matlock and Frank Carter — announced the band's first North America tour in two decades earlier this month. This autumn, the legendary punk band will embark on their first tour of North America without Lydon, at the Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas, Texas — the site of a particularly hostile show for the band when it first toured the U.S. in 1978, where the band had 'pigs' hooves and bottles' thrown at them by cowboys. Jones, Cook, Matlock and Carter revealed they didn't reach out to Lydon to see if he wanted to participate in the reunion tour, which he has been vocally dismissive of in prior interviews. 'The last thing he wants to do is have anything to do with us right now,' Jones said, referencing a lawsuit the singer filed against the band over the use of Sex Pistols music in their TV series, Pistol. 'We wish him the best,' he added.
