David Bowie had fundamental butties on his BRITs rider.
Pet Store Boy Neil Tennant – who featured on a re-make of Bowie’s ‘Hallo Spaceboy’ in 1996 – has recalled bumping into the late music legend backstage on the then-notoriously boozy bash, the place the ‘Life on Mars’ hitmaker was chowing down on a ham baguette.
Neil spilled on ‘Dermot O’Leary’s Reel Tales’ on BBC2: “Bowie was enjoyable and weirdly not pretentious.
“I keep in mind him backstage on the BRITs consuming a ham baguette.
“You think about him to have Indonesian sardines, however there he was with a ham baguette.
“I liked Bowie. We went to see him at Newcastle Metropolis Corridor (within the Seventies).
“I’ve nonetheless bought his autograph.
“That was an enormous affect.”
Neil’s Bowie story comes after Moby not too long ago admitted he wished to fall on the ground and worship the ‘Let’s Dance’ hitmaker once they performed his 1997 traditional ‘Heroes’ in his lounge.
The dance hitmaker, 57, turned such good associates with the singer earlier than his dying aged 69 from liver most cancers on in 2016 that they went on holidays collectively, however Moby admitted he ended up feeling like Mike Myers’ character in ‘Wayne’s World’ when he met his hero Alice Cooper within the movie.
He advised Metro’s 60 Seconds column: “He was my favorite musician of all time. I used to work simply lengthy sufficient to save cash to purchase his albums. Once we turned associates, ostensibly we have been friends, however then once more very ostensibly as a result of he was David Bowie – and I used to be not.
“However we have been neighbours, we went on tour collectively, we had holidays collectively. I attempted to maintain it collectively however your complete time we have been engaged on music collectively, like after we performed ‘Heroes’ on acoustic guitar collectively in my lounge, I wished to fall on the ground like Mike Myers in ‘Wayne’s World’ does when he meets Alice Cooper.”
