1. David BowieHunky Dory
Edwyn Collins: Hunky Dory! I bought that when I was a teenager.
Grace Maxwell: At about 14 years old.
EC: I bought Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars and Aladdin Sane, and I liked them immensely, so I investigated David Bowie after that. Hunky Dory is fantastic. It’s got ‘Changes’ and… what is it, with the piano?
GM: ‘Life On Mars’.
EC: ‘Life On Mars’. Rick Wakeman on the piano. And…
GM: ‘The Bewley Brothers’?
EC: Yes! The last song on the album.
GM: You became obsessed with Bowie at the time, didn’t you? You were a completist at fourteen.
EC: I really did. Of course, on the front cover, he’s got long hair. He was my idol. And there was a sheet of paper with the lyrics on, and they were so strange.
GM: You properly studied them!
EC: Yes.
Did your friends like Bowie?
EC: No, not really, but my friend Paul Quinn, a singer in Dundee, was into Marc Bolan. I was into Bowie.
GM: He picked a side.
EC: I did! I’ve liked lots of his albums, and the last one. Blackstar? Yes. ‘Lazarus’ was so fantastic. In secondary school in Dundee, in Morgan Academy, the other guys were into Yes and prog, and I was into glam rock, then Bowie.
GM: You were in a metal band briefly.
EC: Onyx!
GM: He came up with the name and then got chucked out.
EC: Musical differences!
