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We often used to play Bowie's Rebel Rebel in sound checks and in early rehearsals. What a riff that song has, and X plays it with the right edge of madness. And of course Ziggy summed up the Sputnik alien image... we truly were his bastard sons, if Ziggy had had sex with Mad Max. Bowie made a life-changing difference to me when I first saw that carrot-haired stage act as a schoolboy. I’ve got every record and I lost count of the times that me, Deg and X would sit and watch the final Ziggy Hammersmith show on a blurry bootleg VHS tape.  

I’ve come close, but never really met Bowie; not in a “had a meaningful conversation” way. Once Magenta and I were at a club called Legends at some event in the early eighties while we were planning Sputnik. We were leaning on the wide chrome spiral staircase that led to the downstairs dance floor when Bowie suddenly appeared in front of us. He just seemed to materialise out of the darkness.  It didn’t take me long to realise that he was studying Magenta - who was always an extraordinary and stylish vision in those days - rather than noticing my obvious genius. Naturally she got chatting to Bowie and his assistant CoCo and she and Madge exchanged numbers - probably planning some later assignation - while I lurked, too nervous to join in.  I suppose I consoled myself that he did at least glance in my direction. God had looked at me. “Would you?” I asked Magenta nervously as we were on our way home?  “What do you think” she said...

I missed my chance to talk again, later in the nineties, when I did get introduced to him and Iman at a party. This time I finally did get a sense that I had been noticed by the man, especially when Bowie actually covered Love Missile F1-11 as a B side. Can you imagine - Bowie sang one of my songs.  How cool is that?
 
It's Mike Rossi from Slaughter and the Dogs doing the John Hurt Elephant man voices at the start. 

This somehow became the start of a desperate period on the recording of the second album where we considered doing a cover version to try and get a hit. Fatal. 

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