Competition! Win copies of Spider From Mars by Woody Woodmansey!

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For many fans, Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust era remains the most extraordinarily creative period in his career. As a member of Bowie’s legendary band at the time – The Spiders From Mars – Woody played drums on four seminal albums: The Man Who Sold The World, Hunky Dory, The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars and Aladdin Sane.

Woody’s memoir, which he started work on in 2014, focuses on this key period and brings it to glorious life. With the confidence of youth, Woody always thought he’d be in a famous band but the nineteen-year-old rocker from Hull never expected to be thrust into London’s burgeoning glam rock scene, and also into a bottle-green velvet suit and girl’s shoes. Playing with Bowie took him on an eye-opening and transformative journey. In Spider From Mars he writes candidly about the characters who surrounded Bowie, recalling the album sessions as well as behind-the-scenes moments with one of the world’s most iconic singers. The result is an insightful, funny, poignant memoir that lovingly evokes a seminal moment in music history and pays tribute to one of the most outstanding and innovative talents of our time.

With a foreword by legendary music producer Tony Visconti and an afterword from Def Leppard’s
Joe Elliot.

Spider From Mars, My Life With Bowie by Woody Woodmansey is published on November 3rd in the UK and January 3rd in the U.S.

Competition!

For your chance to win one of five copies of Spider From Mars by Woody Woodmansey, simply answer the following question,

What Yorkshire town was Woody born in?

Email your answer to competitions@davidbowienews.com with ‘Woody competition’ in the subject line.

One entry per person, multiple entries will not be counted.

And the winners are…

Phil Calvert, John Carroll, Debbie Taylor, Jane Hughes and Matt Day who all correctly answered Driffield.

Please can you all email your address to competitions@davidbowienews.com

Congratulations to you all and thanks to the hundreds of you who entered.

The competition closes on Friday 21st October at midnight (UK time)

The five winners chosen at random will be notified by email shortly after.

(This competition is open to UK residents only)

Good luck!

The book is also available to pre-order now: