So I’d slip out into the audience and watch him from the front row. During the Ziggy tour, at the very beginning, I didn’t play every song. “I knew after a few gigs that he was brilliant. Your first tour was the US leg of the Ziggy Stardust tour. I’ve played with other people since then who have sort of pulled me back: ‘Can you play less notes, can you do this?’ ‘Fuck you, David didn’t mind!’ If he hired you, he trusted you.” ![]() He gave me free reign to do anything I wanted. Starman (The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, 1972) I ended up playing over 600 gigs with him.” I was hired for a week – it was just a gig that meant I could pay my rent. The only other person I’d seen like that was Elvis Presley.” You knew you were in the presence of a star. He was beautifully sculpted – his face, the make-up, the clothing. What were your very first impressions of him when you met him? ![]() “It’s a deep song, and the meaning was different when he wrote it when he was a kid compared to when he sang it later. ![]() Rick Wakeman played beautifully on it, I just expanded on it with my jazz sensibilities. It’s a great set of chord changes, which is funny because the song’s called Changes. And the last piece I ever played with him, at a benefit show in 2006 with him and me and Alicia Keys, was Changes. ![]() MG: “My audition song for David was Changes.
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