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As every week I sat in front of the television to watch the popular Dutch TV programme Toppop. They showed the Rebel rebel clip with Bowie in his pirate outfit.
From that moment, 7-2-1974 between 19.00 h. and 20.00 h., I became addicted to Bowie`s music.
When Diamond Dogs was released on 14-4-1974 I rushed to the music store and bought the album (although I did not have a record player).
In May 1974 I went to Belgium on summer camp and bought (for a nice price) the album David Bowie. One of the guys had brought a record player to the camp, so we could listen to the album over and over again.
Back home I bought a record player and listened for the first time to the album Diamond Dogs. That was the second time Bowie really hit me. From that day on I was a Bowie-freak and started collecting all his albums.
The next days I bought Hunky Dory and The rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars and The man who sold the world.
Outside was a killer and I started to collect live tapes from the Outside Tour. In 1995 I did not have the intention to write 2 books but as I collected more and more audio it became harder and harder to prevent buying and copying things twice, so I started making all kinds of lists. As I read more and more Bowie books, all the published errors in dates and tour schedules started to annoy me and I thought I could do better.
My wife and I have a bookkeeping office at home and we don`t have children, so I can listen to Bowie music most of the time when I`m working. It also gives me every day the opportunity (and the time) to add new facts to my manuscript or copy tapes and CDR`s.
Writing the books was done as a hobby, a work of love. But I am glad I can share them with you, so you get the opportunity to use them as a reference.
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