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JANUARY 1971
Bowie at Haddon Hall, April 20 • photograph © Dennis Stone With a new publishing contract, Bowie continued to write, primarily on an old grand piano he had acquired near Haddon Hall and installed in Visconti's old room overlooking the garden. The switch from guitar to a piano (with a stuck key) produced a new way of writing.
Wednesday January 6
Friday January 15
Holy Holy 3:13 • Black Country Rock 3:32 Monday January 18 Six-Oh-One Newsday Holy Holy Bowie performed the new single solo on acoustic guitar. On the set at Granada, Bowie met Roger Damon Price, who told him about an idea he was working on The Tomorrow People – a television show featuring a master race called The Homo Superior. Tuesday January 19 Demo recording sessions Oh! You Pretty Things At four in the morning Bowie woke up with a song in his head – a melody and a phrase, Gotta make way for the Homo Superior. He quickly worked it out on the piano and called Bob Grace who was due to attend the MIDEM a music trade fair in Cannes the next day. He told Bowie, “Come up [to the studio] – I can record an interview with you and we can do the demo.” Wednesday January 20 At the MIDEM festival Bob Grace approached hit producer Mickie Most with an acetate of Oh! You Pretty Things.
Saturday January 23 London to Washington DC
Bowie and Ron Oberman at Dulles Airport Bowie arrived in Washington alone (DeFries chose not to accompany him and Angie was heavily pregnant) to begin the promotional tour arranged by Ron Oberman. Dressed in a blue maxi-coat and white chiffon scarf, Bowie was whisked off to the Dulles Airport customs hall for questioning by bemused officials for 45 minutes. A guard muttered ‘fag’ as Bowie walked off to be greeted by Ron Oberman and his parents.
Michael and Ron Oberman at home with Bowie Bowie met Michael Oberman at the family home in Silver Spring and they took him for dinner at Emerson's in Washington.
Monday January 25 Washington DC Following interviews with a local underground paper and a radio station, Bowie and Ron Oberman boarded the train to Philadelphia for the next round of interviews. Tuesday January 26 94 WYSP, Philadelphia Wednesday January 27 New York
At the Holiday Inn, New York • Photos © Jeffrey Mayer After checking in to a midtown Holiday Inn, Bowie went sightseeing in Manhattan, visiting Nat Sherman (‘Tobacconist to the World’), record shops, the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art and East Side antique stores. In the evening he and Mercury Records’ Paul Nelson watched Tim Hardin play a Greenwich Village coffee house and The Velvet Underground at the Electric Circus in St. Marks Place.
The Velvet Underground: Doug Yule, Willie Alexander, Maureen Tucker, Walter Powers, October 1971, Hilversum, Netherlands • photograph © Gijsbert Hanekroot Friday January 29
• 4th Hour of My Sleep (Zimmerman) 3:08 Ronno single released in UK Mick Ronson (guitar), Tony Visconti (bass),
February 1971 Monday February 1 – Tuesday February 9 Detroit • Minneapolis • Chicago • Detroit • Milwaukee • Atlanta • Houston Tuesday February 2 Detroit Bowie interviewed by Dave Marsh for Creem magazine
Bowie in Detroit • photograph © Charlie Auringer Wednesday February 10 Houston • KSAN-FM San Francisco • San Jose Bowie’s provocative choice of dress was too much for one Houston local, who called him a ‘fag’ and pulled a gun on him. Bowie flew to San Francisco where Mercury Records’ Lewis Seigel introduced him to Rolling Stone writer John Mendelsohn who was covering Bowie's West Coast visit.
Holiday Inn, San Francisco • Photographs © John Mendelsohn At a San Jose radio station interview Bowie was invited to play some records. Mendelsohn found The Stooges’ I Wanna Be Your Dog in the racks. Bowie was transfixed by Iggy Pop and began to formulate his next project – the 'leper messiah' rock star. Saturday February 13 Los Angeles
With Rodney Bingenheimer, Mercury’s California publicist and Bowie’s guide in Los Angeles Bowie stayed with RCA executive/producer Tony Ayres, on whose recording equipment he made a demo of Moonage Daydream. He told Bingenheimer and Ayres he was writing about an imaginary character called Ziggy Stardust. He also recorded a demo of Hang On To Yourself and asked Ayres to give it to Gene Vincent, who was also there recording demos. Bowie mentioned disappointment with Mercury Ayres suggested signing to RCA and arranged a meeting with its West Coast Publicity Head. RCA was then relying mainly on Elvis Presley who, as Ayres said, “can’t last forever”. Bowie, Bingenheimer and Mendelsohn attended a Valentine’s Day party at the home of attorney Paul Feigen. Bowie sat cross-legged on a waterbed playing All The Madmen, Space Oddity, Amsterdam and Hang On To Yourself to the guests. (Bingenheimer recorded the performance and later played part of it on his radio show in the Nineties). The party was Bowie's sole performance of the US promotional tour, as he hadn't arrived without the correct visa necessary for public performances.
Photograph © Earl Leaf In Los Angeles they did the rounds of the radio stations KMAC, CMIS and KYMS and watched a performance by Biff Rose, a songwriter known as ‘the hippy Randy Newman’. Bowie had been performing his songs Buzz The Fuzz and Fill Your Heart. Thursday February 18 Los Angeles to London After a direct flight from Los Angeles, Bowie arrived home on a high.
Thursday February 25 The Arnold Corns recording session Moonage Daydream David Bowie (vocal, guitar) Bob Grace arranged more sessions for Bowie to test out the new songs with Rungk. As he was still contracted to Mercury, Bowie called the project The Arnold Corns – a prototype for the Ziggy Stardust concept. Fred Burrett now Freddie Burretti, was the nominal lead singer, but his real function would be to design Bowie’s clothes and facilitate his assimilation of the Kensington gay scene and Angie’s plan to scandalise straight Britain. March 1971 Tuesday March 9 Demos recording session Lady Stardust Saturday March 20 Disc publishes Mr. 'Bangers' Bowie plans his return... in a stereo wedding car by Rosalind Russell Friday March 26 Peter Noone single recording session Oh You Pretty Things
Peter Noone (vocals) Mickie Most had told Herman’s Hermits singer Peter Noone, “I think I found your first solo record.” Noone heard the demo and said, “That’s it, it’s perfect!” He changed “the earth is a bitch” to the more radio-friendly “the earth is a beast”. Bowie later told Chris Welch, “Although I really wanted Leon Russell to sing it, I suppose Herman has done it quite well.” Bowie's Right On Mother was held over to back Noone’s second single, Walnut Whirl in October. April 1971 Thursday April 1 “David Bowie? Pantomime Rock?” published in Rolling Stone
John Mendelsohn’s feature on Bowie in America gave American readers their first impression of Bowie – charming, clever and outrageous. Saturday April 10
The Man Who Sold The World album released in UK Almost a year after completion, the album was finally released in the UK. The cover art, a Dante Gabriel Rossetti parody, followed Bowie’s specifications, printed on linen textured stock to simulate a painting. Promotional copies of The Man Who Sold The World were sent out to the press with 500 press kit folders made up with fresh photos, biography and cuttings. Bob Grace had also called in publicist Bill Harry to restart Bowie’s stalled career. Bowie requested Chrysalis photographer Brian Ward – on the strength of his work with Jethro Tull – for a session to photograph Bowie’s new look. Friday April 23 Mickey King’s All Stars demos Rupert The Riley
Mickey King (vocals) Bowie produced this side-project to test some new songs. The significant outcome was a conversation Bowie had with engineer Ken Scott during a break in recording.
Saturday April 24 ‘Dressed For The Bowie Life’ by Don Short published in The Daily Mirror
Angie and David at Haddon Hall • photograph © Dennis Stone Friday April 30
Oh You Pretty Things 2:55 Peter Noone single released in UK
May 1971 Saturday May 1 Bowie launched Freddi Burretti as Rudi Valentino, ‘the new Mick Jagger’, adding that Freddi's band Arnold Corns will be the next Rolling Stones. Curious magazine's cover image was one of a series that Brian Ward shot for the story, including Burretti holding a boa constrictor, which Bowie later claimed was the origin of Alice Cooper’s snake act.
Cover stars Freddie Burretti and Bowie
Bob Grace, Freddie Burretti and Bowie • Photographs © Brian Ward Friday May 7 Ronno at London Temple Club Bowie took Bob Grace to Ronno’s showcase set at London Temple Club. The support act Beggars Opera, a prog-rock group (also on Vertigo) included guitarist Ricky Gardiner, who later worked on Low and Lust For Life.
Moonage Daydream 3:52 • Hang On To Yourself 2:51 The Arnold Corns single released in UK Both tracks reissued:
Chrysalis Music's sheet music for Oh You Pretty Things highlighted Bowie as the writer of Noone's hit, Bowie's own album and the Arnold Corns single. Wednesday May 12 George Underwood and Birgit Graversen's wedding
Angie and David with George and Birgit Underwood at the wedding party George Underwood and Bowie were friends since school, where they once had a fight over a girl.
Bowie was rushed to Moorfield Eye Hospital and after months of operations, he was left with poor depth perception and a permanently dilated left pupil. As a result he appeared to have different coloured eyes.
Despite this, the two remained lifelong friends and played in the King Bees. Their single Liza Jane, released June 1964 on Vocalion Pop, was Bowie’s first commercially released recording. By 1971 Underwood was an illustrator but Bowie encouraged him to guest on the upcoming radio session and organised some sessions at Advision Studios for Underwood to record three Bowie songs for DeFries to shop around the labels for a deal.
Friday May 14 Ronno played The Cavern Club in Liverpool, supporting the band Tear Gas, but Ronson was at his lowest ebb, living with his parents in Hull. Live work was drying up and the Ronno single had been unsuccessful.
Ronson jumped at the offer and took the next train to London. He restarted Ronno with Woody Woodmansey and a new bass player Trevor Bolder, another of his Hull friends. Mercury Records execs Robin McBride, Irwin Steinberg and Charlie Fasch came to the Londonderry Hotel expecting Bowie to sign with Mercury for another three years. DeFries stated unequivocally that the contract was to be terminated forthwith and that Bowie would not record another note for Mercury. DeFries reimbursed Mercury for all costs associated with The Man Who Sold The World and the other recordings made under the contract. He now had two albums to sell on to the highest bidder.
Bowie and Dana Gillespie, May 17 • photograph © Michael Stroud DeFries began planning his own management empire Gem. He had recently begun a relationship with Dana Gillespie and signed her. She was an old flame of Bowie’s, having met him at the Marquee Club in 1965 when she was a folk singer, recording singles for Pye and Decca. In between Hunky Dory sessions, Bowie and Ronson would produce her recordings at Trident Studios, starting with her version of Bowie’s Andy Warhol, which would be previewed on the next BBC session. Sunday May 30 Angie gave birth to Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones at Bromley Hospital after a drawn-out labour, suffering a cracked pelvis in the process. Bowie wrote Kooks to commemorate the arrival of his son, telling listeners of John Peel’s radio show a week later: “I'd been listening to a Neil Young album* and they phoned through and said that my wife had had a baby on Sunday morning, and I wrote this about the baby. It’s called Kooks.” June 1971 Thursday June 3 In Concert: John Peel David Bowie (vocals, guitar, piano)
Queen Bitch Bowie's planned preview of the forthcoming album became a ‘community thing’ as Peel noted with approval, as ‘an astonishing number of friends’ from Bowie’s neighbourhood took turns on vocals. Bowie and his band were nervous before the show – the new material was unfamiliar and Bowie had not performed live for some time.
Bolder had problems during rehearsal, earning a rebuke from Bowie. He returned to the dressing room to relearn his parts and played the whole show without mistakes. Friday June 4 Bolder and Woodmansey joined Ronson at Haddon Hall, later moving to a flat nearby in Beckenham. The band rehearsed in the basement then moved up to the hall, near the living room where Bowie had his piano by the window. Tuesday June 8 Hunky Dory recording session Trident Studios, St. Anne’s Court, Wardour Steet, London Song For Bob Dylan Wednesday June 9 Top Of The Pops television appearance with Peter Noone Oh You Pretty Thing Bowie played piano, wearing a dress.
Saturday June 12 Peter Noone single Oh You Pretty Things peaks at 12 in UK chart Thursday June 17 Arnold Corns recording session Rudi Valentino/Freddi Burretti (vocals)
Looking For A Friend
A second Arnold Corns recording session for the planned album, Looking For Rudi, produced only two songs, neither of which were officially released. Looking For A Friend was Freddi Burretti’s only vocal appearance. Other mixes and takes of the song have Bowie singing the lead. Man In The Middle was composed and sung by Mark Pritchett, with Bowie on backing vocal.
Bowie in Gem's Fleet Street office • photograph © Marcellus Hudalla Monday June 21 Glastonbury Fayre, Worthy Farm, Pilton DJ/promoter Jeff Dexter had invited Bowie to perform and recommended him to organiser John Coleman. Bowie, Angie, Ronson, Grace, DeFries and Gillespie took the train to Castle Cary station and walked the rest of the way to the site through the country lanes. Bowie stayed with Dexter at the farmhouse of Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis. The schedule was thrown out by cold wet weather, so Bowie’s 7.30pm Tuesday slot was postponed to the Wednesday morning. Wednesday June 23 Glastonbury Fayre, Worthy Farm, Pilton
Bowie at the farmhouse steps (top) and by the equipment trucks (above)
Thursday June 30 ‘Right Then, Which One Is Dad?’ published in the Daily Mirror
Bowie in the Oxford bags and wizard hat that Angie bought him for Glastonbury. Angie in the Hunky Dory jacket • Photos © Ron Burton DeFries formalised the severance of Bowie’s Mercury contract and Ronson's Philips contract. With Dana Gillespie also cleared of obligations, DeFries and Myers planned a promotional album to showcase Bowie and Gillespie.
July 1971 Friday July 9 Hunky Dory / David Bowie & Dana Gillespie
promo LP recording session It Ain’t Easy Bowie’s cover of Ron Davies' It Ain't Easy would be held over for Ziggy Stardust. As on the John Peel radio session, Dana Gillespie sang backing vocals. Rick Wakeman played harpsichord. Wednesday July 14 David Bowie & Dana Gillespie promo LP recording Quicksand Sunday July 18 Rehearsals, London, near Victoria Station
Ronson, Bowie and Woodmansey • photo © Rodney Bingenheimer Wednesday July 21 Country Club, Haverstock Hill, Hampstead Bowie, Ronson, Woodmansey and Rick Wakeman played a set based around the Hunky Dory songs plus The Supermen, Memory Of A Free Festival, Buzz The Fuzz (Biff Rose), It Ain’t Easy, Amsterdam and It’s Gonna Rain Again. Bowie invited Wakeman to join as keyboardist and musical arranger, but later that night, Chris Squire called Wakeman with an invitation to join Yes, which he accepted. Wednesday July 21 David Bowie & Dana Gillespie promo LP production Following a final seven-hour mixing session, the LP was pressed privately with green Gem labels.
David Bowie & Dana Gillespie promotional album Side one: David Bowie Side two: Dana Gillespie Side one produced by David Bowie and Ken Scott Friday July 30 Hunky Dory recording session The Bewlay Brothers August 1971 Sunday August 1 The Marquee Club, 90 Wardour St, London (with Mick Ronson) Monday August 2
Geri Miller and Andy Warhol in London • photograph © Douglas Miller The cast of Andy Warhol’s Pork arrived in London for a 26-night run at the Roundhouse in Camden. Playwright Tony Ingrassia had constructed the play from Andy Warhol's tapes of his phone conversations with Brigid Polk. These deadpan exchanges were reenacted by a Warhol-like Tony Zanetta and ‘Amanda Pork’ (played by Cherry Vanilla), accompanied by unsavoury behaviour from the eight-strong cast. The ensuing media outrage provided enough publicity to fill the Roundhouse for most of the season.
Pork cast and crew at London's Mayfair Gallery, August 8 Friday August 6 Hunky Dory Life On Mars?
With the album sessions complete, Bowie and Grace went to Ken Scott’s home to select the tracks for Hunky Dory. Wednesday August 11 Country Club, Haverstock Hill, Hampstead (with Mick Ronson) Bowie and Ronson again played as a duo, on guitar and piano respectively with Angie on the lighting. In the audience was a contingent from the Pork production. Leee Black Childers and Cherry Vanilla had been doing the rounds of live shows in London since their arrival, gaining free entry posing as journalists from Circus magazine. Both were avid readers of the rock press, and Childers remembered John Mendelsohn’s Bowie profile in Rolling Stone in April.
They were disappointed to find Bowie in his usual baggy pants and floppy hat - not a dress in sight. Bowie noted their arrival and introduced them to the audience, then played Andy Warhol. Cherry Vanilla registered her approval by flashing a breast.
Afterwards as both parties mingled at a club – Yours And Mine – Bowie sat back, watching. Childers observed that, “He was rarely a participant in anything.” Bowie was dazzled by it all but it took Angie to turn it to their advantage. Jayne County recalls her telling Bowie that "he needed to change his image and start getting some attention too.” Thursday August 12 Pork at The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, London
Backstage with Dana Gillespie and Tony DeFries and Angie (below)
Invited by Leee Childers and Cherry Vanilla the night before, Bowie, Angie, Dana Gillespie, Tony DeFries and Freddi Burretti were at the Roundhouse to see Pork and be introduced to the rest of the cast. Bowie and Angie were transfixed and returned several times.
Friday August 13 DeFries flew to New York for ten days of negotiations with record companies, some of whom had shown interest in signing Bowie. DeFries played the Bowie-Gillespie promo to A&R executives at CBS, Bell, United Artists and RCA. He had already sent a Hunky Dory acetate to John Cale who was working in A&R at Warner Bros. Cale loved it and had fought hard for the label to accept DeFries's offer, to no avail. DeFries opted for RCA when their newly appointed A&R head Dennis Katz made a last minute bid to top an offer from United Artists. By 1971, Elvis’ sales were in decline and Dennis Katz was brought in to sign new artists, assisted by in-house producer Richard Robinson and his wife Lisa Robinson, an influential music journalist who edited Rock Scene and contributed columns to New Musical Express.
On the advice of these arbiters of cool, Katz signed The Kinks and Lou Reed, who had left The Velvet Underground. They urged Katz to sign Bowie. Under the contract Bowie would deliver RCA three albums over a two-year period. The advance of $37,500 per album RCA had agreed to pay was, by industry standards, a modest asking price and reasonable, given that Bowie’s previous albums for Mercury had sold poorly. But DeFries knew that once he had the master tapes of those albums, he would be able to lease them to RCA for $20,000. Myers had also included a crucial proviso in the contract. As a precaution designed to give Gem control over the back catalogue, the clause called for the reversion of all of the masters of Bowie’s RCA recordings and the Mercury albums after 15 years. It was a demand, admitted Myers later, which he borrowed from Allen Klein. RCA however agreed to the reversion clause. At that point no one envisaged Bowie’s career lasting until 1986. Saturday August 14 'The Space Oddity Comes Down to Earth' published in NME Friday August 27 Following Gem’s negotiations with Mercury, Bowie is effectively free to sign with RCA. Mercury would return Bowie’s recordings and artwork on payment of $17,844 – representing Mercury’s total investment in Bowie’s career. Saturday August 28 Pork at The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, London Following the last show at the Roundhouse, the Bowies joined the celebrations backstage and at the new Hard Rock Café in Mayfair. September 1971 Wednesday September 8 London to New York Bowie flew to New York with Angie, Ronson and DeFries to sign the RCA contract. Bowie reintroduced Tony Zanetta to DeFries as the actor who played Andy Warhol. DeFries told Zanetta that Warhol’s films were not being handled properly and appointed Zanetta (now called Z as DeFries was ‘Tony’) as New York liaison, instructing him to set up a meeting with Warhol. Z's main job was creating a buzz around Bowie and ushering him through the New York demimonde. Thursday September 9
RCA Records, Sixth Avenue, New York Bowie signed his recording contract and met the RCA executives, including Dennis Katz, Richard Robinson and his rock journalist wife, Lisa.
Leee Black Childers, Danny Fields, Cherry Vanilla, Lisa Robinson, Henry Edwards at Max's Kansas City • photograph © William Randolph Lisa Robinson occupied a pivotal position inside the backroom at Max’s Kansas City, the centre of the New York underground music scene. She arranged a dinner at the Ginger Man restaurant on East 36th Street where Bowie met Lou Reed. Reed warmed to Bowie and later that week at the Warwick Hotel, played Bowie demos of his planned album. Bowie played him an acetate of Hunky Dory, and Reed was impressed, particularly (and unsurprisingly) with Velvets tribute Queen Bitch. Responding to Bowie’s Andy Warhol, Reed joked that The Velvet Underground once had an idea to produce an Andy Warhol doll which, when you wound it up, did nothing at all. Later at Max’s Lisa Robinson introduced Bowie to Danny Fields, an Elektra A&R 'house hippy' who had signed The Stooges. Elektra had since dropped them after two albums. Iggy Pop was at a loose end, without a band, addicted to heroin and staying with Fields.
Iggy Pop and Lou Reed at Max's • photograph © Danny Fields Friday September 10 After a long breakfast meeting at the Warwick, DeFries and Bowie discussed Iggy Pop’s situation. He would need to quit heroin so DeFries put him up at the hotel to begin a methadone program. Tuesday September 14 The Factory, 33 Union Square, New York Tony Zanetta invited Bowie, Angie, Ronson and DeFries to the Factory to meet Andy Warhol.
Then Bowie played the acetate of Andy Warhol to him.
At the Factory that day were three other Warhols: Tony Zanetta (who played Warhol in Pork), Bowie (who played Warhol in Basquiat) and Allen Midgette (who would assume the role of Warhol on speaking tours).
Three Warhols: Allen Midgette, Bowie and Andy Warhol Bowie also met Interview editor Glenn O’Brien and took part in a 15-minute ‘screen test’ filmed by Michael Netter. Bowie, used to ‘acting’ when put in front of a camera, performed a mime routine (involving pulling out his intestines). Tuesday September 21 Sounds of the 70s: Bob Harris radio session Bowie and Ronson performed as a duo for his only stereo BBC radio session. Saturday September 25 The Friars Club, Aylesbury
Sunday September 26 Implosion, The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, London
October 1971 Monday October 4 Seymour Hall, London – The Gay Liberation Front benefit concert (with Mick Ronson) Friday October 15 Ziggy Stardust rehearsals Work began on the new album with ten days of at Underhill, a cheap new two-roomed studio opened by Will Palin. Ken Scott will be producer.
Friday October 22
Walnut Whirl (Flowers, Tatham, Banks) 2:45 • Right On Mother 2:32 Peter Noone single released in UK November 1971 Sunday November 7 Alice Cooper at Rainbow Theatre, London Bowie's interest was piqued by reports of the show’s extravagant theatricality, and brought along the rest of the band to witness the effect of the costumes and makeup.
Monday November 8 Ziggy Stardust album recording sessions Trident Studios, London Rock'n'Roll Star
Both takes subsequently scrapped Thursday November 11 Ziggy Stardust album recording sessions Trident Studios, London Star
Having scrapped the first takes from the first session, the two tracks were re-recorded. The other songs recorded on the day (like many others during the Ziggy sessions) would be deemed unsuitable for the album and remained unreleased for several years. Friday November 12 Ziggy Stardust album recording sessions Trident Studios, London Moonage Daydream
[two takes] Saturday November 13 RCA ran a full-page ad for Hunky Dory, with Bowie annotating each song on Warwick Hotel stationery during the September US trip.
His notes were followed by excerpts of glowing reviews from US critics:
Monday November 15 Ziggy Stardust album recording sessions Five Years
Also recorded by this stage: Round And Round By the eve of Hunky Dory’s release, Bowie had recorded enough for the follow up album, and an early tracklist for Ziggy Stardust was drawn up:
The Ron Davies song It Ain’t Easy, left over from the Hunky Dory sessions was still out of the running, since they already had two covers. Even as Brian Ward was preparing US press kits with the recent Hunky Dory photos, Bowie was moving on from his Lauren Bacall/Greta Garbo image, starting with a haircut from Trevor Bolder, who used to be a hairdresser. Bolder feathered the back and sides and emphasised the length by cropping the top – the first stage of the creation of the Ziggy Stardust hairstyle.
December 1971 Changes 2:32 • Andy Warhol 3:03 single released in US Saturday December 4
Hunky Dory album released in US Side one Side two Friday December 17
Hunky Dory album released in UK Sunday December 25 Bowie, Angie and Zowie spent Christmas in Cyprus with Angie’s parents.
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