Rick Wakeman on working with David Bowie, turning down The Spiders From Mars, and why the rumour that he got the Sex Pistols ...

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bassist Trevor Bolder and drummer Woody Woodmansey went on to form David Bowie’s “Spiders from Mars”. The rats are dotted around the Hull and East Yorkshire area for you to find with the aid ...

During the earthly sojourn of Ziggy Stardust, Woody Woodmansey laid down the rhythm for David Bowie's mercurial backing band The Spiders From Mars. Here he talks Valerie Siebert through his 13 ...

If you watch footage of David Bowie’s performance at Live Aid, stood to one side of the great man was guitarist Kevin ...

Dan's dad, Laurie Burnett, was a guitarist in Woody Woodmansey’s ‘U-Boat’ (ex David Bowie ‘Spiders From Mars’) as well as local bands ‘The Strollers’, ‘Blues Power’, and ‘The L ...

Woody Woodmansey is someone who knows exactly what this was like in the most important and pivotal moments of Bowie’s career, as the drummer for his most esteemed backing band, The Spiders from Mars.

To witness that phenomenon would be one thing, but to actually be at the heart of it was another – and the memories of this life still stop The Spiders from Mars’ Woody Woodmansey in his tracks.

Revisiting the great man’s music with an all-star band, Holy Holy features Woody Woodmansey, legendary Spider from Mars & David Bowie’s drummer from 1970-1973, and Tony Visconti, Bowie’s long-time ...