{"id":2489,"date":"2013-01-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/01\/03\/no-drugs-please-and-keep-it-down-david-bowie-letter-reveals-dos-and-donts-of-putting-on-a-gig\/"},"modified":"2013-01-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T00:00:00","slug":"no-drugs-please-and-keep-it-down-david-bowie-letter-reveals-dos-and-donts-of-putting-on-a-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/01\/03\/no-drugs-please-and-keep-it-down-david-bowie-letter-reveals-dos-and-donts-of-putting-on-a-gig\/","title":{"rendered":"No drugs please and &#8216;keep it down&#8217; &#8211; David Bowie letter reveals do&#8217;s and don&#8217;ts of putting on a gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/b\/b9\/DavidBowiePhilips.jpg\/220px-DavidBowiePhilips.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"155\" height=\"156\" \/><br \/>In a previously unseen letter from David Bowie written in 1969, the rock star reveals his own guide to hosting a concert. As a flamboyant, gender-bending rock star with an extraterrestrial alter-ego, he gave little impression of being overly worried by practical matters.  <!--more-->  <br \/>But David Bowie had his feet on the ground in some respects and knew when to \u201ckeep it down,\u201d it seems.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter seen by the Daily Telegraph but never before made public, he issues some surprisingly sensible advice to a teenage concert organizer on the eve of his first chart hit, Space Oddity.<\/p>\n<p>Writing to the 17-year-old schoolgirl, who had persuaded him to perform at her local arts club, Bowie sets out the \u201cobvious and not so ob. points on putting a Thing on\u201d ahead of the 1969 gig.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsk landlord about the volume,\u201d he cautions her before the event at Croydon\u2019s Gun Tavern in south London, where a group of countercultural youths had set up an \u201cArts Lab.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Source: The Telegraph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previously unseen letter from David Bowie written in 1969, the rock star reveals&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}