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.

A GENERATION is waking up to its mortality, writes Victoria White. That’s what’s been happening for the last 10 days as Bowie’s Blackstar reaches No 1 in the US and the UK charts and his tracks are streamed 19m times in the space of a week.