Mick came from Hull. You know, he was very down to earth. BOWIE LAUGHS But when I first...
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NORTHERN ACCENT:
Mick came from Hull. You know, he was very down to earth. BOWIE LAUGHS But when I first heard him play,
I thought, "That's my Jeff Beck! "He is fantastic,
this kid is great." And so I sort of hoodwinked him
into working with me. He'd get a song and he'd sit there and he'd just play it on the
acoustic guitar, singing. I kind of just watched him and kind
of played through everything and I guess everybody
kind of liked it. I'd played classical piano,
you know, and I played violin and with David kind of pushing you
into doing these different things, that was really good, too, because he encouraged you
to do those things
Mick came from Hull. You know, he was very down to earth. BOWIE LAUGHS But when I first heard him play,
I thought, "That's my Jeff Beck! "He is fantastic,
this kid is great." And so I sort of hoodwinked him
into working with me. He'd get a song and he'd sit there and he'd just play it on the
acoustic guitar, singing. I kind of just watched him and kind
of played through everything and I guess everybody
kind of liked it. I'd played classical piano,
you know, and I played violin and with David kind of pushing you
into doing these different things, that was really good, too, because he encouraged you
to do those things
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NORTHERN ACCENT:
Mick came from Hull.
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You know, he was very down to earth.
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BOWIE LAUGHS
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But when I first heard him play,
I thought, "That's my Jeff Beck!
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"He is fantastic,
this kid is great."
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And so I sort of hoodwinked him
into working with me.
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He'd get a song and he'd sit there
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and he'd just play it on the
acoustic guitar, singing.
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I kind of just watched him and kind
of played through everything
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and I guess everybody
kind of liked it.
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I'd played classical piano,
you know, and I played violin
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and with David kind of pushing you
into doing these different things,
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that was really good, too,
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because he encouraged you
to do those things.
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Movie Summary
Documentary following five years of Bowie's early career, from the late 1960s through to the on-stage death of Ziggy Stardust in 1973 and features never seen before archive interviews with some of Bowie's earliest collaborators.
