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invited him back to the eighteenth-century Château,
set in the rolling countryside of the Oise valley, an
hour’s drive out of Paris. Enticed by Calamel’s offer
of ‘some peace – and some French cheese’, Bowie
arrived that afternoon, wearing a flat cap,
accompanied by Iggy, and deployed his natural
gentlemanly charm, inhaling deeply to take in the
distinctive smell of the grand old building and
announcing to Iggy, ‘This is a great rock ‘n’ roll
studio.’
After a long lie-in – although David woke up in the
night and was found wandering the grounds,
confused and naked but for a forties-style Burberry
Macintosh – Bowie called a meeting with Laurent
Thibault. He’d brought a huge case over full of
albums, which he played through, critiquing each of
them, including a couple by Thibault’s previous band,
Magma, before announcing that in a couple of days
he was taking a trip to his new house in Switzerland,
but he’d return in a matter of weeks to produce
Iggy’s solo album, and would use Thibault as
engineer. Later, it transpired that a crucial sweetener
for using the Château was the prospect that David
and Iggy’s living costs would be picked up by a
record company: David had no cash for day-to-day
expenses. With the flow of MainMan-era royalties
staunched, and imminent legal disputes with Michael
Lippman, he was forced to watch every penny. Over
subsequent weeks, onlookers would be astonished
to see Corinne reprimanding David for spending
100 francs on a new jacket; when he came to settle
the bill for Iggy’s recording, David’s cheque