Courtesy of Rolling Live StudiosLongtime David Bowie keyboardist Mike Garson is organizing a second annual star-studded virtual concert event celebrating the late rock legend on the January 8 anniversary of his birth. The 2022 edition of the event, du.
Courtesy of Rolling Live StudiosLongtime David Bowie keyboardist Mike Garson is organizing a second annual star-studded virtual concert event celebrat.
Courtesy of Rolling Live StudiosLongtime David Bowie keyboardist Mike Garson is organizing a second annual star-studded virtual concert event celebrat.
Courtesy of Rolling Live StudiosLongtime David Bowie keyboardist Mike Garson is organizing a second annual star-studded virtual concert event celebrat.
“Thank God they got David to the hospital, because he could have died that night.”
Mike was a respected jazz pianist when he auditioned to join Bowie’s backing band in 1972, initially just for a US tour. They got on so well that he played on the star’s smash Seventies albums Aladdin Sane, Pin Ups, Diamond Dogs and Young Americans, before working on Bowie’s 1993 album Black Tie White Noise.
They stayed together until Bowie’s final shows. Recalling his mischievous humour, Mike laughed: “I was a year older than David, so he nicknamed me ‘Doc Methuselah’ [a biblical figure who lived to 969]. There’d be 50,000 people in the audience but that didn’t matter to David, who’d quietly joke with me on stage, ‘How you doing tonight, Doc Methuselah?’”