David Bowie: Rock ’n’ Roll with Me

Geoff MacCormack, David Bowie’s lifelong friend, joined Bowie’s 1973 world tour as an additional back-up vocalist and percussionist, and later as a ‘Diamond Dog’ in '74 and what would be known as ‘The Young Americans Soul Tour’. He also worked on the six albums from Aladdin Sane to Station to Station. After three years of touring, recording and travelling with Bowie, MacCormack started an award winning (Gold Clio, Ivor Novello) music production partnership with Simon Goldenberg who he met, coincidentally, in The Three Tuns pub, home of Bowie’s earlier ‘Arts Lab’. For over 20 years, they wrote music for high-end advertising, films and TV. Geoff now manages the use and sale of his photographs of David Bowie around the world and has exhibited in St Petersburg, the USA and the UK, including the hugely successful ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll with Me’ exhibition at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery from September 2020 through to May 2022.

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"His photographic memoir reveals untold stories and nearly 150 candid photos."

"Intimate and full of references so specific you can almost smell the pub carpets and stage make-up"

"David Bowie's Lifelong Friend Revisits '70s Adventures with Rocker in Rare and Never-Before-Seen Photos"

"There’s even a witty and heart-warming afterword written by Bowie himself in 2007, which makes it all the more poignant."

"The songwriter and producer, who shared a friendship with Bowie for over 60 years, is now unveiling over 150 rare and unseen photos of the late star in a 'photographic memoir.'"

"MacCormack recently discovered more never-before-seen photographs of his time with Bowie, capturing the Star Man in tender, unguarded moments."

"Unseen David Bowie: Rock icon's childhood friend reveals intimate never-before-seen behind-the-scenes photos in memoir charting star's rise to fame and beyond."

"Go on tour with David Bowie in an all-new photographic memoir"

"Geoff MacCormack's new book peeks behind the scenes of a lifetime's friendship."

"Very close to David Bowie from the end of the 1960s, photographer and musician Geoff MacCormack immortalized the rocker's first hours of glory."

"Geoff MacCormack Looks Back on His Lifelong Friendship with David Bowie."

"David Bowie remains a household name all over the world; in this interview, his childhood friend Geoff MacCormack dives into their friendship and beyond."

"[MacCormack's] new book is about what the rock star was really like behind closed doors in an intimate memoir, which contains 150 images of their adventures, some of which are published for the very first time."

"MacCormack was snapping photos the entire time, and those images form the centerpiece of his new book."

"A photographic memoir like no other, David Bowie: Rock ‘n’ Roll with Me published by ACC Art Books chronicles MacCormack’s sixty years of friendship with Bowie, told with wit, humor, and candor."

"Photography was purely a hobby for me for about five minutes - it just happened to be the right five minutes."

"Geoff MacCormack’s candid photographs seen for the first time in new book."

"an amazing story told with humor and candor..."

"And now David Bowie: Rock ‘n’ Roll With Me is out in the world — perhaps the closest you’ll get to being on tour with Bowie in that era without a time machine and a backstage pass."

"Expect loads of candid backstage photos and early snapshots in this book."

"Celebrating a lifetime of friendship with David Bowie, Geoff MacCormack - aka Warren Peace - looks back on his childhood and early years with the late music icon, as he rose to become one of the biggest stars on the planet."

"In MacCormack's remarkable photo memoir from ACC Art Books, he charts his lifelong friendship with Bowie, showing the places he and Bowie inhabited, the people they met and the adventures they shared, beginning at Burnt Ash Primary School in the '50s."

"David Bowie: Rock ’n’ Roll with Me, recalls his relationship with Bowie (that lasted from their meeting at eight years old until Bowie’s death in 2016) in text and gorgeous, intimate photos."

"From life to on the road to just life, MacCormack’s photographs affirm the poignant moments shared by a man venerated by the world but, to a close few, was first and foremost, a dear friend."

"This week on Rockonteurs we welcome lifelong friend of David Bowie, Geoff MacCormack to the podcast….the stunning photographic memoir ‘David Bowie: Rock n Roll with Me’ – which includes a wonderful afterword from David."

"Alongside his memories, MacCormack opens up his archive of photography, sharing never before seen images of his adventures with the music legend."

"David Bowie’s photographic memoir like no other."

"…an incredible story, told with wit and candour."

"Geoff MacCormack’s remarkable photographic memoir charts his lifelong friendship with David Bowie."

"Bowie fans will enjoy the graphic display and especially to see the Londoner in his day-to-day life, sometimes posing with a Kansai Yamamoto model and other times looking scared in the Soviet Union, when MacCormack, Bowie and a few other friends meet."

"Rare photos of David Bowie’s train travels through 1970s-era Soviet Union are now on view."

Geoff MacCormack was interviewed by NPR's Press Play on July 3rd 2023.

"The intimate memoir, David Bowie: Rock ‘n’ Roll with Me, reveals rare insight into a friendship where two men shared their love for music from the moment they met to their final goodbyes."

"For readers seeking a slightly more domestic portrait, Geoff MacCormack’s Rock’n’Roll With Me offers the perspective of a lifelong friend who’d shared Bowie’s Wimpy Bar childhood in Bromley, then enjoyed a professional relationship with him during the mid-1970s."

Geoff McCormack was interviewed by Angellica Bell on the BBC's The One Show on 6th October 2023.

"David Bowie’s 1974 album ‘Diamond Dogs’ is set to be reissued later this year to mark the record’s 50th anniversary." This album includes the song "Rock ’n’ Roll With Me", first song on side 2, from which the book is titled, and is the song co- written by author and David’s oldest friend, Geoff MacCormack. The album and tour features heavily in the book.