The man who toured the world with David Bowie – BBC News…

“I toured the world with David Bowie and performed at Live Aid.”

It was July 13, 1985, in the morning. As guitarist Kevin Armstrong made his way to the helipad at Battersea power station, the streets were unusually quiet.
Where would he end up? Live Aid.
Kevin, a well-known guitarist in the British music industry, had been working with David Bowie in a south London recording studio a few weeks prior, recording the soundtrack for the movie Absolute Beginners.
An accomplishment in and of itself, but these sessions would prove to be the most significant of Kevin’s professional life.

“David said to me ‘look, I’ve been asked to do a charity concert by Bob Geldof, would you like to play with me?’

“I had an inkling that it was a big gig, but the full impact of the day dawned gradually.

“I can’t remember much about the journey to be honest,” said Kevin, who now lives in St Leonards, East Sussex. “But I remember David being very nervous, he hated flying.

“We buzzed over the stadium. That’s when it started to sink in.”

Kevin was armed with a cheap point-and-shoot camera.