…..played his first gig under the short-lived name ‘The Hype’ at the Roundhouse Spring Festival? The line-up also featured Mick Ronson (playing his first ever gig with Bowie no less) and Mick ‘Woody’ Woodmansey (who would go onto be in the Spiders From Mars), plus producer Tony Visconti, Benny Marshall and John Cambridge. All band members had a pseudonym (Bowie was Space Star/Rainbowman!) – Sounds great doesn’t it? Obviously not if you were there, the band were reportedly laughed and jeered off the stage – whambamthankyoumamindeed!
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The images in the blog are from 11th March 1970 snapped from Atomic Sunrise, a Living Theatre event where David & Co were supported ‘musically’ by Genesis, billed just as David Bowie.
thank you – got to ask, THE Jeff Dexter?