Salesman Geoff MacCormack saw huge ch-ch-changes when childhood pal David Bowie rang him out of the blue. Life was Hunky Dory for Geoff, who was selling ads for a construction newspaper and about to be promoted.
But in 1973 the Oh! You Pretty Things star had other plans for his mate from cub scouts and the church choir. Geoff said: “He didn’t ask me, he just said, ‘You’re coming on tour’.
There was no debate in my mind.” Backing vocalist and occasional percussionist Geoff had snapped the enigmatic star that year as Ziggy Stardust at the then Hammersmith Odeon in London, now the Apollo.
He also took shots of him in LA and, two years later, in New Mexico, US, where Bowie was filming sci-fi film The Man Who Fell To Earth.
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