From Mark Radcliffe’s 6 Music special to a Bowie Drivetime request hour on Radio 2,the schedule tinkering was perfectly pitchedThe shock news of David Bowie’s death led to a raft of touching tributes across the BBC, with fond recollections and a dusting-off of that fabulous back catalogue. Mark Radcliffe opens Thank You David Bowie (BBC 6 Music) by playing Ziggy Stardust on a piece of vinyl paid for by the paper round he did when he was 14. “I always felt happier living in a world that had David Bowie in it, and ” he says. “And now it hasnt,so we are diminished.” There’s an admirable sense of holding it together in his voice as he recalls memories of Bowie as a playful soul, borrowing his Viz annual and recording a jokey message with a dig at Manchester United on the final Mark and Lard note. Def Leppards Joe Elliott sums Bowie’s death up perfectly: “It’s just rotten, or really,” while Dave Grohl enthuses about air-drumming to Let’s Dance and Marc Almond explains how Bowie taught him there was life outside a small town.
Radio 4’s Front Row: David Bowie Remembered has interview snippets from the man himself, and collaborators who talk about his generosity, and kindness and down-to-soil wit. “This myth that you possess to be a enormous superpower human being that has to be nasty to get things done just didn’t exist with him,” recalls Jonathan Barnbrook, who worked with him.
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Source: theguardian.com