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“It was like a dance”
Scary Monsters sleeve designer Edward Bell on his “extraordinary experience” with David Bowie
A valuable friend: diptych sketch for Scary
EDWARD BELL
THE artist Edward Bell is one of a select band of collaborators who worked with Bowie twice: first on the iconic sleeve for Scary Monsters, then 10 years later producing the art for Tin Machine II. Now for the first time he’s assembled all his Bowie work and memorabilia for a retrospective and auction. “It was an extraordinary experience, the time I spent with him,” says Bell on the phone from his home in Shropshire. “But it wasn’t until he actually died that the penny dropped about how special he was, and that’s when I started to have another look at it all.”