David Bowie

Geoff MacCormack Collection

Mon Nov 02 2020 – Sat Apr 03 2018

Geoff MacCormack, AKA Warren Peace, was one of David Bowie’s oldest and closest friends, their relationship dating back to their childhoods’ in Bromley.

MacCormack toured with Bowie for three years as a backing vocalist, dancer and percussionist.

During this time he recorded with Bowie on five albums — from Aladdin Sane to Station to Station, also co-writing the track Rock ‘n’ Roll With Me on Diamond Dogs, and Turn Blue with Bowie on Iggy Pops album Lust for Life.

As Bowie preferred not to fly, he and MacCormack travelled together by boat, train and road. The photographs from these travels explore this period, and give a rare insight into their friendship.

MacCormack said: “Just suppose your Brilliant Pal said: “Will you join my band [The Spiders from Mars] and come on a tour? And would you mind awfully if we travelled [first class] by sea to New York, and then sailed from Los Angeles to San Francisco, Canada, Hawaii and on to Japan? And then, from Japan to Siberia, through Russia [Trans-Siberian Express] to Moscow [for May Day Parade], Poland, East and West Germany, just in time for tea at the George V Hotel in Paris? Followed by a relaxing holiday in Rome, just to chill out?

And then, just suppose, when you thought all the fun had finished, your Brilliant Pal said: “Would you mind being a dog [Diamond], and coming back to New York on an even better ship, eating caviar every day and joining another band, then another band, helping out on a few albums [six], and generally hanging out and having the time of your life for a couple more years?”

Supposing all that happened…Wouldn’t it be fantastic to have kept a photo or two?”

His photographs have been exhibited world wide, and are currently on exhibition at the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery

 

Print Prices are:
A3 £395 Signed Edition 100
A2 £595 Signed Edition 100
A1 £950 Signed Edition 100
A0 £1,800 Signed Edition 100‍

Geoff MacCormack – David Bowie, New Mexico 1975 (MAC023)

Geoff MacCormack – David Bowie Fenton Lake New Mexico, 1975 (MAC015)

Geoff MacCormack – David Bowie in Make-up 1975 (MAC025)

Geoff MacCormack – David Bowie in front of Trans-Siberian Express,1973 (MAC 001)

Geoff MacCormack – David Bowie Fenton Lake New Mexico 1975 (MAC005)

Geoff MacCormack – David Bowie Hammersmith Odeon, 1973 (MAC004)

Geoff MacCormack – David Bowie on Trans Siberian Express, 1973 (MAC008)

Geoff MacCormack – David Bowie – Fenton Lake – David laughing with some of the team (MAC006)

Geoff MacCormack – David Bowie – The Man Who Fell to Earth 1975 (MAC 011)

Geoff MacCormack – The Man Who Fell to Earth 1975 (MAC 009)

Geoff MacCormack – David Bowie Sleeping on Trans Siberian Express, 1973 (MAC 003)

Geoff MacCormack – David Bowie writing the Lyrics to “Station to Station” Los Angeles 1975 (MAC024)

Geoff MacCormack – David Bowie, Los Angeles 1975 (MAC 0020)

Geoff MacCormack – The Man Who Fell to Earth Black 1975 (MAC012)

Geoff MacCormack – David Bowie Cherokee Studios Hollywood USA, 1975 (MAC019)

Geoff MacCormack – David Bowie on Set with Pistol (MAC 054)

Geoff MacCormack – David Bowie White Sands (MAC 022)

Geoff MacCormack – David Bowie Robin Bell Edition

Geoff MacCormack – Filming Los Angeles 1975 (MAC 016)

Geoff MacCormack – David Bowie on Set Bedroom Scene 1975 (MAC 056)

Geoff MacCormack – David Bowie, Chicago 1973 (MAC 057)

Geoff MacCormack – David Bowie on the Set of The Man Who Fell to Earth, 1975 (MAC 053)

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