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Episode: 111. Creating Superstars: Geoffrey Marsh on David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane and Dave Robinson on Bob Marley’s Legend
Description: We talk to Geoff Marsh, one of the curators of a new exhibition about the 1973 album Aladdin Sane and to Dave Robinson, aka ‘Robbo’, legendary co-founder of Stiff Records.Â
Geoff tells us how photographer, the late Brian Duffy, created the lightning flash image of David Bowie. That album cover has gone on to remain one of the world’s three most instantly recognisable images - the other two are John Pasche’s Hot Lips logo for the Rolling Stones and Hipgnosis’s cover for Dark Side of the Moon. Â
Aladdin Sane: 50 Years, which runs at Southbank unti...