BROTHERS FROM ANOTHER PLANET
GEOFF MACCORMACK’s new book peeks behind the scenes of a lifetime’s friendship.
By Tom Doyle.
Alien invasion: Bowie sleeps through his journey to Moscow on the Trans-Siberian Express, April 1973;
Geoff MacCormack (4)
GEOFF MacCORMACK HAD BEEN friends with David Jones since they’d met as 8-year-olds at Burnt Ash primary school in Bromley, and became the singer’s near-constant travelling companion between 1973 and ’75, performing backing vocal and percussion duties – latterly billed as ‘Warren Peace’ – on Aladdin Sane, Pin Ups, Station To Station and Bowie’s Diamond Dogs/Soul tour of 1974. To that list of roles he declines to add aspiring professional photographer. Nevertheless, his striking images of Bowie during the period now feature in his photo book-cum-memoir, David Bowie: Rock ‘N’ Roll With Me.