The weekend I stalked DAVID BOWIE in Switzerland. An emotional journey!

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Do you love David Bowie? Me too! In 1976 I was studying Spanish in Malaga, Spain, and I decided to take a weekend to search for David Bowie in Vevey, Switzerland. So I bought a plane ticket and away I went looking for David!
Follow me on this emotional journey of my youth when I desperately looked for the singer I loved, David Bowie, in the most beautiful small city I had ever seen, Vevey, on the Swiss Riviera.
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@sputnikwar 4 месяца назад

I’m glad you found him, because that’s the David that will live forever. ⚡️ x

@kjzone101 3 месяца назад

So pleased to have discovered your channel. You know your stuff and speak with real joy and enthusiasm

@WhyNotGoPlaces 3 месяца назад

Thank you! I try not to get teary-eyed, but it always seems to happen. That was an emotional video because I remember that time really well, wandering the streets of Vevey looking for David.

@MrLetmein2011 12 дней назад

Such a beautiful intimate telling of your love for David . It’s like a love story . I was a gay kid in Ireland in the 70s who was absolutely obsessed with David Bowie , he understood me and as far as I was concerned he was talking directly to me with his music. When I was 14 I shaved my eyebrows and started wearing mascara lol It didn’t go down too well in an all boys catholic school but I was a devotee and I felt I had to show my devotion to David. Thank you 🙏🏻 💕💕💕

@WhyNotGoPlaces 10 дней назад

Thank you for your kind words! I'm glad you enjoyed my video. It was a very emotional time, searching for Bowie in Vevey. My heart ached for him! I think Bowie was talking directly to you at 14. I felt like he was talking to me too, telling all of us it was ok to be different, to not be in the mainstream or what our parents expected us to be. So glad you enjoyed my video. He's still speaking to us in his music.

@stephanieamy3721 2 дня назад

I am a little late to this party however loving your channel. In the early 70's my uncle would go to a club called Friars in Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire and tell me about David Bowie. He also did his first show as Ziggy before letting Ziggy and the Spiders from Mars loose on the world. There is a bronze sculpture of David Bowie in Aylesbury's market square. I also remember watching on TV the news reporter saying that David had done his last show as Ziggy I cried and cried, my mum was horrified that I was so upset by this pop star announcing no more Ziggy Stardust. oohh to be 13 again lol. Love Punk, Pistols and really enjoying your channel.

@WhyNotGoPlaces День назад

Thanks for tuning in! How legendary that he launched Ziggy Stardust in Alylesbury. I'm glad they honor him with a sculpture. That's fantastic. I was 15 when I saw the Ziggy tour at the Hollywood Palladium and I'll never forget a few months later when he announced his retirement, my mother said something like "well at least you won't be wasting your time listening to him anymore." How wrong she was!

@turquoisecapricorn 3 месяца назад

You are a true Bowie-fan! Respect! OOo I wished he would have sat himself next to you there at the Geneva Lake. I collect all of his records. For me David Bowie is the artist of the 20th Century! I have an electronic album of the musicmaker who had that chateau with a modern recording studio for that time in it. Also Pink Floyd did an album there ( Obscured by clouds ) and Elton John ( he even called his album Honky Chateau (1972) ). greetings Jason

@WhyNotGoPlaces 3 месяца назад

Thanks for that info! That Chateau sure did have a history. Bowie and Iggy had to leave it while they were making The Idiot in July 1976 because Bad Company were coming, in starting in August. Busy place! Glad you enjoyed my video. I still get emotional when I think of that trip looking for him in Vevey in July 1976. He sure was the artist of the 20th Century. Thanks for watching, Jason.:)

@2000spqr 12 дней назад

13 of age I awoke to golden years. THAT VOICE! WHO THE HELL IS THAT?? I had to call the DJ to get the info... ordered the STATIONTOSTATION album in 78. I then got STAGE and in 79 LODGER. THAT VOICE!!! How I appreciated the works. I paid dearly in middle school and high school BOWIE MUSIC WAS AN INVITATION TO A BEATING! In the summer of 83 I was somewhat vindicated- a brief time. At 59, I don't listen to music or bowie as much however I know every lyric to any BOWIE SONG. His music saved me from taking life and preserving my own. The teenage years are the most painfull during school or after graduation YES THE JOCKS AND POP-KIDS suffer after graduation because they are back to square zero. (lol)

@WhyNotGoPlaces 10 дней назад

How wonderful that Bowie saved you at the age of 13. What a wonderful story! I think Bowie taught all of us that it was ok to be different and not fall into the high school categories of jocks and cheer leaders. It was ok to be on the outside of the mainstream. And it's still ok! Thanks for your inspirational story of the power of music to lift all of us into a better world outside of high school. I hated high school myself and couldn't wait to get out and moved to Hollywood, where the "weirdos and freaks" lived. Thanks again for watching!

@bas4241 4 месяца назад

Wow! Great video. That was so profound when you described the private versus public David Bowie. That could apply to a lot of things in life! There was an interview on Letterman that I saw somewhere on RU-vid where Letterman was trying to get Bowie to say the lyrics of some song surreptitiously and it was hilarious. I’ll have to try to find it again. Anyway I remember looking at this shy, famous young kid not much older than me at the time and I was just blown away. I am up here in Santa Barbara, so I was able to make it down south for several of his shows in the 80’s and 90’s. Sorry for the long post…keep up the good work!

@WhyNotGoPlaces 4 месяца назад

Thanks for watching and subscribing! It was an emotional 2 days that I spent as an 18 year old "looking for David" in Switzerland, so when I made the discovery of the private David versus the public David, it cleared everything up for me. My David was in the records, as I said in the video. Glad you enjoyed the video. Your comment meant a lot to me. Thanks again!

@AugustMoon67 3 месяца назад

I was also in Geneva in the second half of July 1976, so if you were there for the weekend 23rd-25th or 30th-1st we were there at the same time. Maybe you didn't follow the Montreal Olympics as keenly as I did, so won't associate those dates with any such competitions. A year later my classmate suddenly got a fascination with Vevey, but I wasn't sure why. Since I had lived in Geneva in 1974-75 he asked me about it. Then when Bowie passed away another classmate of ours mentioned on FB how she bumped into Bowie in a ski resort in Switzerland much later, and exchanged a few nice words with him. I'm glad it was her rather than me, as I would have been too nervous to say anything. (Nice video about the Bromley Contingent too. Close to me as I live in that borough now.)

@WhyNotGoPlaces 3 месяца назад

Thanks for watching both videos! I'm not sure of the dates in July 1976, but it could have been that time. It was such a beautiful place. Even though I was filled with angst searching for David, I still remember that trip fondly.

@AugustMoon67 3 месяца назад

@@WhyNotGoPlaces Thanks so much for the reply! Another coincidence was that my elder sister, born in 1959, was in Philadelphia that summer. But her host family was as uninterested as yours, and despite being there for the bicentenary they didn't care. (But she could visit the fountain next to Independence Hall our uncle had helped design.) A present English friend of mine was possibly in Spain when you were there. He could experience Franco dying there anyway. As you might recognise, this is screenshot of where the Bromley Contingent were filmed in 1976: www.bjornpatricks.com/BP2/HighStreet285.jpg With Siouxie Sioux proudly announcing her recent debut. But I can't find that place, in Bromley or anywhere else. In the 1990s I once bumped into Siouxie and Budgie in the middle of Wardour Street. Literally in the middle. None of us cared about any cars or anything. Very anarchic...

@tommymaguire2839 4 месяца назад

Thank you for sharing such a personal story with us. You've unintentionally made me tear up on another freezing winter day outside of Philadelphia. PLEASE keep these coming. You have a gift. Your warm delivery is absolutely lovely. I'll lift a glass of Malbec to you and your "Pain Killer". Hugs and warm vibes, Tommy.

@WhyNotGoPlaces 4 месяца назад

Thanks again for watching! I didn't think I would cry, but the emotions are so strong when I talk about that time. I still love Bowie so much. I follow his wife Iman on Facebook. She has some nice personal posts sometimes, like inside the house they shared in Woodstock where she goes still on weekends. It almost makes me feel that he's still alive. Cheers!

@2000spqr 12 дней назад

I seriously hope IMAN watches this vid and invites you privately to spend time with you.

@TomTremayne 3 месяца назад

You are so cool, I love your videos and how unpretentious you are about it all.

@WhyNotGoPlaces 3 месяца назад

Thank you so much! And thanks for watching another video.

@madkingrocker8635 4 месяца назад

Wow Maggie, another Great story....I'm a huge Pistols fan and without "David" I don't think Steve Jones would have been the same "inspired" Musician...Jones loved him. That story you just relayed made me feel alone near the end and totally got the way you felt ..lonely..along way from home ..but you had an uplifting ending which most of us can probably relate to.....their " alive and well in your bedroom"... emotional..yes...karate chop to the throat moments ..thanks again...Ian x

@WhyNotGoPlaces 4 месяца назад

Glad you enjoyed it Ian! I tried really hard not to cry but re-telling the story brought back those strong feelings. Rotten probably loved Bowie too, but I don't think he has talked about it. Thanks again for watching!

@cecile5090 3 месяца назад

Plus, Steve nicked Bowie’s gear after the Hammersmith Odeon show!😄

@derekdykeman9160 4 месяца назад

I saw that Dinah Shore show with Iggy Pop and David Bowie just so you know in the band was Hunt and Tony Sales Soupy Sales sons who years later were in Tin Machine with Bowie.

@WhyNotGoPlaces 4 месяца назад

I remember that. I didn't really like Tin Machine, but I appreciated that Bowie was not trying to be commercial during that time. But maybe I'll try the album again. Sometimes I don't like an album right away, like Blackstar, and then I go back and really get into it later. Thanks again for watching!

@BirdiePierce 4 месяца назад

i know that same David too! ... as well as Iggy & Lou! 🤠

@WhyNotGoPlaces 4 месяца назад

Thanks for watching! Please subscribe for more.

@michaelsursa1487 4 месяца назад

Love the videos, in junior high me and a buddy listened to the fame album always my favorite bowie record! Question 4 you what is the two pieces of artwork on your wall is it native american?

@WhyNotGoPlaces 4 месяца назад

Thanks for watching and subscribing! Those two pieces on the wall in the black frames are more tropical and tiki than anything else. I got them at a garage sale in Hollywood in the 80s (for about a dollar) and I have kept them ever since. I guess I'm sentimental about them and they blend with my tiki room. Thanks again!

@kult23 4 месяца назад

Thanks again for another trip down your memory lane and the conclusion you came to, that Bowie was to be found back home in your bedroom amongst your records & posters. Each year on the anniversary of his death I make a point of posting up on social media a pic of Bowie with the words “He is not dead - just press play!” I was a Bowie boy, before becoming a punk, at the same time you were a Bowie girl. Being into Bowie boy in that early Ziggy to Station to station period, made you stand out as being different. He wasn’t the international superstar he became. I like that diamond dogs cap sleeve tshirt you’re wearing in that photo, cool. Had a few cap sleeve T-shirts myself. Also got myself a three piece flared suit with raincoat during his thin white duke period and wore simlilar bangles and even smoked Gitanes when I found out that’s what Bowie smoked 🤣 Anyway, all the best. Keep em coming. Yrs Trev

@WhyNotGoPlaces 4 месяца назад

I tried smoking Gitanes too! Even though I've never been a smoker. I loved the box. It looked so European and Art Deco. You are so right about Bowie not being mainstream in the 70's. A lot of people barely knew who he was during that time, especially in the U.S. I think it was the Serious Moonlight Tour that sent him into the American mainstream. Thanks again for watching Trev!