David Bowie kept original Picasso and Matisse artwork in his car

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'Never Mind The Buzzcocks' guest and Sex Pistols bassist Glenn Matlock remembers riding shotgun with David Bowie in his car – and what he discovered there. The new series of 'Buzzcocks' launches Wednesday October 16 at 9pm on Sky Max and NOW

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00:00Riggy Pop, right, we played, did an extra club gig in New York.

00:03Yeah. And David Bowie came, right? Oh, wow.

00:06And he's got the same car and driver as he has in The Man Who Fell To Earth, right?

00:12And we all bundled in that, going down Madison Avenue,

00:15and I'm sitting on David Bowie's knee, because there's nowhere to sit, right?

00:19Now we're talking!

00:20LAUGHTER

00:21And he's got those big limos.

00:23Yeah, there's supposed to be two vanity mirrors, right?

00:26And he hasn't got a vanity mirror.

00:29He's got a little painting. I went, hang on a second.

00:32That's a Picasso, isn't it? You know, a little one.

00:35Yeah, it is. And I look, hang on, that's a Matisse.

00:38No way. Right? In his car.

00:40And he said, yeah.

00:42I said, well, you're a flash-****, and then he went, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:46LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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