![]() ![]() ![]() “It was flattering,” he told Rave-Up fanzine’s Devorah Ostrov in 1983. Not many those associated with glam rock got a free pass in the punk era, but Bowie’s transition from psychedelic folk-rock to harder, heavier and generally spikier sounds saw him respected and guaranteed him safe passage – much to the surprise of Mick Ronson, Bowie’s early ’70s guitar foil. He was an absolute Bowie fan of the highest order.” “That was what was so odd for him, when he adopted the Ramones image, because that was two steps down for him. ![]() “Sid was such a Bowie fan,” Lydon recalled. One of the frontrunners for that honour was Sid Vicious, who would go to parties dressed up as Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust creation – spending hours beforehand to get the makeup across his face and glitter in his hair just right. The 1969 track sees Bowie still in psychedelic folk-rock mode, but with its dig at hippies and their ‘slack attitude,’ some of the ground for the first wave of UK punk was already starting to be laid.Īnd yet, with his shock of orange hair and capacity to shock, it might be surprising to find the former Johnny Rotten wasn’t the main Bowie fan in the Sex Pistols camp. J ohn Lydon marked David Bowie’s January 2016 passing by posting to his website a video of Cygnet Committee. A key influence on many of the 1977 generation, Bowie offered bands like the Sex Pistols, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Joy Division an escape from the drabness of ’70s Britain. ![]()
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