20 Photos of the Kings Road on a Hot August Day in 1976.
20 Photos of the Kings Road on a Hot August Day in 1976.
Take a stroll down the Kings Road on an August day during the long hot summer of 1976.
Extracted from STARMAN: David Bowie ~ The Definitive Biography
STARMAN: David Bowie Extract 1: How Bromley Dave became David Bowie In the first extract from his biography Starman, Paul Trynka describes Bowie’s south London childhood in Brixton, schooldays at Bromley Tech — and the fight over a girl that caused his famously odd-coloured eyes It was a cold, wet November in 1991, like the cold, wet Novembers of his childhood, when David Bowie asked his driver to take the scenic route to the Brixton Academy. The smoke-filled coach pulled slowly down Stansfield Road, and paused outside a large, anonymous three-storey Victorian house. Bowie remained silent for a few minutes as he gazed out of the window. Then he turned around, and guitarist Eric Schermerhorn, sitting next to him, could see tears trickling down his employer’s cheeks. “It’s a miracle,” Bowie murmured. He was unashamed of his vulnerability. “I probably should have been an accountant. I don’t know how this all happened.” Bowie has described himself as a “Brixto...
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