Few good things ever happen in Milton Keynes. It will be forever associated in my mind with painful waits for coach transfers, crimes against football and a thoroughly miserable afternoon traipsing around IKEA.
But for three nights in 1983, the city - typically a cultural wasteland - played host to David Bowie's Serious Moonlight tour. To mark the fortieth anniversary of those shows, the BBC's Vanessa Pearce - herself an attendee - spoke to some of those who were there.
One interviewee is Denis O'Regan, who - as Bowie's official photographer - was fortunate to see him perform in numerous other cities all around the world, and have backstage access. When I talked to him five years ago for this Buzz feature, he spoke fondly of the time he spent on the road with Bowie - and in conversation with Pearce he says more about what it was like to be in the daily company of a global superstar who he came to consider a friend.
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