Moonage Daydream: The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust

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Deluxe Edition, number 233 of 350 copies bound in full leather, with additional photographic print, from a total run of 2500 copies.

In the process of Mick Rock's start to become a rock photographer we get to see his visual documentation as he follows David Bowie around, annotated by Bowie himself.Bowie adds bits and pieces here and there, as well as filling in some gaps that Rock missed photographical.

A woman has come over and is leaning into Bowie, cutting Jagger out of the conversation - if looks could kill. Bowie's extra-terrestrial Rockstar creation Ziggy Stardust staged one of the most spectacular and innovative live shows to date, expanding the parameters of the live rock show and singlehandedly launching a worldwide glam explosion. Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. We had a black and white television and read Melody Maker and NME, therefore David was not usually available in full colour.

Mr B has never previously gone on record in such detail about the origins, inspirations, mutations and peregrinations of our inimitable idol, Mr Stardust. I'd been fascinated by this fey creature-- an alien demigod of sex and song-- ever since they'd started playing his cuts on the "underground" radio station, and photos of him began to show up in the music press. Ziggy Stardust blazed briefly but intensely, and I am delighted to see his life and times as a rock'n'roll star immortalised in this book. The Publisher’s Copies feature an authentication page stamped by the David Bowie Estate with an exclusive 8″ x 10″ photographic print by Mick Rock (not previously included in Moonage Daydream.

This book took me back to the 11 year old school boy and is a must for a Bowie fan, or even for the mildly curious. The trains themselves had such great names: Texas Chief, St Francisco Zephyr, Broadway Limited, The Wolverine, Abraham Lincoln, National Limited and many more.So when this creature dressed in a kind of multi coloured catsuit and red strange-looking hair walked up the steps of Oxford Town Hall where we'd been waiting all afternoon (we were young) and made some breezy comment, I thought who the fuck is that? He disliked flying and took trains and boats, interacting with others and observing the world around him.