Film director Tim Pope is most well-known musically for his long relationship with The Cure, having been behind the lens for over 20 of Robert Smith & co.’s promo clips throughout the 80s and 90s. But whilst Pope was making videos for the goth-pop superstars, he also had a long-running relationship with David Bowie that culminated in him directing the broadcast for Bowie’s star-studded 50th birthday gig in New York, 1997. Speaking to this writer as part of an anniversary piece for the show a few years ago, Pope explained how they first met.
"I got introduced to David by Iggy Pop,” Pope said. “I met him one night in a restaurant in uptown New York. I didn’t know I was going to meet him – Iggy took me to a gig and he said, ‘I’ve got a couple of mates turning up who turned out to be Bowie and Jagger. They all went to a restaurant and Iggy said to me, ‘Do you want to come up?’.”
