David Jones knew Geoff MacCormack for most of his life, as the two met at school when they were 8 years old. They’d both become professional rock musicians, and both under stage names — David Bowie and Warren Peace, respectively. In the 1970s, MacCormack acted as a backup singer on five Bowie LPs, including “Aladdin Sane” and “Station to Station,” and he was part of the traveling ensemble in the 1974 tour in support of “Diamond Dogs,” an album that contains a song he co-wrote, “Rock ‘n’ Roll With Me.”
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In 2023, MacCormack looked back on a lifetime of memories to reflect on the big-picture meaning and impact of Bowie. “I think, like any huge artist who’s had that longevity and that array of work, I think he’s pretty well cemented himself a place in music history. Because there’s something — even if you’re not a fan of everything he did — there’s something admirable about the way he got through that and reinvented himself so many times and kept you guessing that other artists just don’t have,” MacCormack told Ultimate Classic Rock. “You think of a band or an artist, you kind of think of that genre, whereas it’s difficult to stick that on him and go, ‘Which genre? When he did that? Or when he did that?’ So it’s that force of a body of work, rather than a style. So I think on that basis, he’ll always be huge. Hugely respected.”
