As we approach the anniversary of his death, I remember my time spent with him.
David Bowie, musician, composer, actor and personality has left us a legacy of such a remarkable compositions and an eclectic array of his stage characters.
I was the sound recordist on the Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence in 1982 and was confronted with working with David the legend for quite a few weeks in the Cook Islands and then at several locations in Auckland.
The director Nagisa Oshima San had cleverly cast David against Ryuichi Sakamoto so on set we had famous rock stars from the East and the West.
David was not a skilled actor but just right for his role, always keen to suggest ideas and anxious to please Oshima San, a director with a very stern nature.
David free from paparazzi was totally at ease in Rarotonga, would offer you a drink from the bar, and we were both South-East Londoners - he was from Brixton and knew the roller-skating rink that I regularly went to as a teenager.