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Nicky Horne

Nicky Horne

Radio presenter

Jun 30, 2026

24:49
That's probably actually more or about the same as the cost of that double espresso today.
24:55
Yes.
24:58
And I went to Top of the Pops when David Bowie did that famous performance of Starman.
25:07
which became iconic because of the kind of well I mean he was with Mick Ronson Mick was dressed in this gold it looked like bako foil jumpsuit and Bowie with this incredible makeup and and purple hair I seem to remember There was one point in that video where David Hepworth, the venerable music journalist, said this was the point that David Bowie actually became a superstar.
25:45
when he pointed to the camera on the lines, and I had to call someone, so I picked on you.
25:55
And he pointed at the camera like that.
25:57
And I was in the control room, and Stanley Dorfman, director, who'd seen so many different bands, when Bowie did that, even Dorfman went, wow.

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39:26
All right.

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