Sleeve Notes — David Bowie · Hunky Dory

David Bowie — Hunky Dory

28 January 2027 · Doors 7:00pm · Sleeve Notes — The Listening Salon · Nº.006
Wonder Room presents · hosted at the Circle & Star, Hampstead
Hosted by Jonathan Wingate

A view from inside Bowie's world. Jonathan Wingate was David Bowie's spokesman. No other Sleevenotes night has had this. Every salon so far has had Jonathan telling the story of a record. This one has him telling his own.

The story first. Then the record, in full. One album an evening — opened up, talked through, then played end to end. Lights low. Phones away. Fifty-five seats, listening together. This is not a gig. It's a salon, where the album is the star of the evening.

Side A · Discussion — a guided deep dive into Hunky Dory: the man who spoke for him, the piano at Haddon Hall, Rick Wakeman and the Bechstein.
Interval — a short break, a light refreshment.
Side B · Listen — David Bowie's Hunky Dory, in full, in the dark, in company.

1971. Written at the piano in Haddon Hall, in the spring his son was born — the record where David Bowie stopped trying on other people's voices and found his own. Changes, Life on Mars?, Kooks, Quicksand. Fifty-five years old in December; fifty-five seats in January, three weeks after what would have been his eightieth birthday.

Your host — Jonathan Wingate
Jonathan Wingate spent years as the spokesman for David Bowie and Sir Bob Geldof before turning to journalism. He writes for The Times, the Daily Telegraph, Mojo and Rolling Stone, and has interviewed everyone from Sir Paul McCartney, Sir George Martin and Robert Plant to Björk, Smokey Robinson and Tony Bennett. A regular voice on BBC television and radio.

🗓 28 January 2027 · Doors 7:00pm · Side A 7:30pm · Out by 10:00
📍 28 Heath Street, Hampstead NW3
🎟 55 seats only · £22

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