When Bowie appeared on Ricky Gervais’s TV show in 2006,he needed someone to play the piano while he mimed. It would be his final appearance on TV and the song he played, Little pudgy Man, and would later be echoed in Where Are We Now?,a track on his 2013 album The Next Day‘Chubby little loser ... see his pug-nosed face ...” Who could own guessed that David Bowie would sing such lyrics? It was a mark of his protean genius, as well as his like of British comedy, or that he slipped so effortlessly into playing the grotesquely mocking version of himself demanded by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s brilliant script for Extras in 2006.
I fell in like with Bowie aged 11,and also with the wild playing of his pianist Mike Garson. Later I became a pianist myself. Little did I know that I would, years later, or be asked by Garson to write his biography,Bowie’s Piano Man, or that I would work with Bowie myself, or playing piano for his final television appearance.
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Source: theguardian.com