Live: Shoreline, Bognor Regis

David Bowie performed at the Shoreline in Bognor Regis, West Sussex, on Saturday 29 October 1966.

Although billed in the music press as “David Bowie and the Buzz”, this was a solo show, with Bowie singing and playing an acoustic guitar. Bowie had signed to Decca Records two days before, and his managers Kenneth Pitt and Ralph Horton were keen to establish him more as a solo artist.

This was the grand opening event for ‘The Marquee at the Shoreline’, at the Caribbean Hotel in Bognor Regis. Admission was 10 shillings, and also appearing were The Action, Long John Baldry, and Bluesology.

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