The iconic Miles Davis covered Scritti Politti’s Perfect Way in 1986. So began an unlikely friendship that saw Gartside asking Davis to play trumpet on Oh Patti (Don’t Feel Sorry For Loverboy). “He came to the studio for a day, and it was just David [Gamson], Miles and I there. Miles didn’t bring anyone else with him, which I thought he would. I filmed a lot of that day, and nobody has seen it, but it’s interesting. Miles was quite nervous almost in a way, cautious, he spent quite a lot of time going over the changes at the piano, and then going back to the trumpet and back to the piano, figuring things out.”
Subsequently, Gartside used to visit Davis in his New York apartment. “People would say he was kind of bonkers, but he wasn’t, and it was a privilege to go to his apartment. He had a wall of tapes of him playing live shows and would go through them, and say: ‘Listen to this,’ and pull out Munich in 1970-whatever to listen to. And then he showed me all of his paintings.” A picture of the duo exists, showing them touching hands. Gartside says: “I’m wearing sunglasses in the picture because I have a hangover, which was not uncommon during those very hedonistic times…”
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