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Opinions on Bowie

Real or fake? Any opinions gratefully received.

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Permalink Reply by Stepeanut on July 30, 2021 at 9:26am

It’s a no from me. The angle is wrong for David, who was left-handed, and there’s no year. He would occasionally skip adding the year, if he was in a rush, but those examples are quite infrequent.

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Permalink Reply by David Gough on July 30, 2021 at 10:34am

Thanks for your help

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on July 30, 2021 at 10:17am

Very poor fake. He did sometimes sign at this angle, and he did skip the year occasionally, but this is not his signature. This placement is off and the form is a bad simulation - the "B" is way off and the paraph does not sit well.

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Permalink Reply by David Gough on July 30, 2021 at 10:36am

Thanks for your help Eric, there is another I'm about to post I would value your opinion.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on July 30, 2021 at 11:02am

Most welcome. I just commented on it.

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Permalink Reply by Stepeanut on July 30, 2021 at 11:26pm

I do have a couple of upward-slanting signatures from David that are genuine, but, in my experience, those tended to occur on smaller items, like ticket stubs. It usually came down to his angle of approach, or how he took hold of the item. It would be highly unusual for him to sign a poster, like the one in the OP, at such an angle.

Here is an IP that I obtained at the recording of Later … with Jools Holland, at the BBC, in November 1995:

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Permalink Reply by David Gough on July 31, 2021 at 12:07am

That must have been a wonderful experience.

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Permalink Reply by Stepeanut on July 31, 2021 at 2:22am

One of many. I saw David around 100 times, including quite a few television recordings. I was in the studio audience for the BBC Radio Theatre show in 2000 and the A&E Live By Request special in 2002, amongst others.

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Permalink Reply by David Gough on July 31, 2021 at 3:25am

Did you get to speak to him? I would know what to say if I had!

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Permalink Reply by Stepeanut on July 31, 2021 at 3:35am

I was on first name terms with him. I still remember the first time he called me by name without me offering the information first. It came as a shock and a surprise because I never went out of my way to be noticed, particularly. I’m not an extrovert.

Thinking too hard about what to ask is the mistake that most people make when meeting a personal hero. I don’t think I ever asked David anything deep and meaningful about his past. I wouldn’t have gotten a sensible answer, anyway. I always kept it light, good-humoured, and current, as did he.

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Permalink Reply by David Gough on July 31, 2021 at 3:51am

Thanks for your reply, thats a great thing to have had in your life, I have met some of my heroes and its not always a nice experience but he always sruck me as someone who had a great sense of humour and appreciation of his incredible talents. Wonderful :)