John McEnroe told a nice David Bowie anecdote on this week’s Desert Island Discs, after picking Suffragette City as one of his tracks:
“When I started to learn how to play guitar, I was here in London getting ready for Wimbledon and it turned out we were staying in the same hotel. So I’m playing Suffragette City, I’m butchering it very badly, and after a period of a few minutes I get a a knock on the door, and I open the door and it’s David Bowie. And he looks at me and says: “Hey, John, I heard you were here, great to meet you, would you like to come up for a drink?” And I thought, ‘Oh my God, David Bowie’s asking me upstairs for a drink, and I said: “Yeah, I’ll come,” and he goes: “Don’t bring the guitar.”
