Newly discovered material explores the early oddity that was the genius David Bowie

As a new box set of Bowie material from the 1960s pays homage to the late genius and Richard Purden spoke to some of the people who worked with him in that era.

ON July 3, 1973, an exhausted David Bowie informed auxiliary Spider From Mars John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson to wait for his signal before strumming the opening chords of the much-loved torch song and set-closer ‘Rock N’ Roll Suicide’.