Terry Wogan once admitted that talking to David Bowie on his BBC chat show was one of the toughest interviews ever.
Bowie's band at the time, Tin Machine, appeared on the thrice-weekly Wogan show in 1991 to perform their single You Belong in Rock and Roll.
According to the BBC, Terry later admitted that the singer, who died earlier this month aged 69, was one of his more difficult guests. "Keep an eye on their promising young vocalist," Wogan said wryly in his introduction.
Bowie, dressed in a fetching lime green suit, was then interviewed with the rest of the band.
Wogan asked Bowie, "It's new for us to see you as part of a band rather than fronting a big spectacular, why did you decide to do it?"
"It gives me a new insight in to washing habits," he replied, while distractedly calling out "Ron!" to the studio audience and then explaining, "Ron is a friend of ours in Dublin."
Wogan later wrote in his autobiography Is It Me? "For some reason best known to him he came on the show unwilling to talk."
Meanwhile Morrissey has paid tribute to the late broadcaster. Writing on the website True to You, he said: "Time is not as it was. I only met Terry Wogan once, and he approached me (which makes all the difference), and was as genuine and charming as the entire world, today, is saying that he was. So very witty, yet never hurtful ... razor-sharp yet respectful - and, incredibly, one of the few radio DJs with no qualms about playing the Smiths or Morrissey. I am thankful to him."
