FILTER BOOKS
My name is Earl
Breezy memoir from Bowie’s key guitarist.
By Mark Paytress.
Young American: Bowie guitarist Earl Slick cherished any opportunity to subvert rock’n’roll.
Getty/John Kisch Archive
Guitar: Playing With David Bowie, John Lennon And Rock And Roll’s Greatest Heroes ★★★
Earl Slick with Jeff Slate
PENGUIN MICHAEL JOSEPH, £25
ASTRUGGLING YOUNG guitarist gets the nod in 1974 to attend a big-name audition. He is met by an inscrutable young PA named Coco, invited into a darkened studio and asked to play along to several backing tracks.
Twenty minutes later, in walks a skinny, pale figure, “dressed the way an English rock star might think a Harlem pimp would dress”. It’s David Bowie, in need of a guitarist for his first touring band since the Spiders.