‘I’m coming out with a cold sweat because I just can’t think of a plan’: A day in the life of David Bowie’s publicist
When David Bowie announced he was coming out of assumed retirement to release a new album in 2013, the world was shocked – and that includes his long-time publicist.
On a new episode of Mumbrella’s one-on-one podcast, “the godfather of modern music PR”, Alan Edwards, shared some of his most memorable stories having repped some of the world’s biggest names including Prince, The Rolling Stones, the Spice Girls, and of course, David Bowie.
On the back of his newly-released book, I Was There: Dispatches from a life in Rock and Roll, Edwards discussed an excerpt detailing a phone call he received from Bowie, who made the surprise announcement that he was going to be releasing a new album – his first in 10 years.
Bowie was in New York recording the album – The Next Day – when he called Edwards in on a Wednesday to reveal he wanted to drop the record the following Tuesday.
