Around the dawn of the decade, Simon Goddard, one of the finest music journalists that these isles has to offer, embarked on a truly gargantuan task - kicking off his epic Bowie Odyssey series, chronicling the life of David Bowie against the cultural and social history of the 1970s, year by year. Book four, Bowie Odyssey 73, was released just last month, and a fascinating tome it is too, exploring the final days of Bowie’s status as accessible-pop-star-approaching-untouchable-icon, amidst a flurry of drug abuse and swirling chaos.

This episode was an absolute pleasure to record. Simon’s 2002 Smiths book, Songs That Saved Your Life, is a book I consider amongst the finest music publications I’ve ever read. And his Bowie books? A remarkable, awe inducing, thrilling, maybe even borderline mental undertaking! 

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