They told me – ‘This is just a welcome.’ It was real bizarre!”Ĭulture The David Bowie V&A exhibition could be the last of its kind - our memories are digital now Read More When I got back to my hotel room, there was a chicken stabbed into my door with blood dripping down. “Some guys came over to us and said, ‘Whatever you want drugs-wise, anything you want sexually, doesn’t matter what it is – we can get it. And we also pulled the freaks.” He tells me a story about when the band reached Los Angeles. “He had a sphere of craziness around him,” the Spiders From Mars drummer Mick “Woody” Woodmansey tells me. It was a big thing for him to go and experience it.”īut Bowie found a strange and foreign land far from a comic book, and the sexually charged androgyny of his alien alter ego Ziggy Stardust – not to mention Bowie’s star quality – attracted the weird and wonderful at every turn. Everything seemed bright and brash and sexy to us. “It was the music we liked, the comics we loved. “As kids, Americana was our thing,” Bowie’s lifelong childhood friend Geoff MacCormack tells me. For David Bowie, this was another lifelong dream newly realised: not only had his recent album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars made him a pop star after several failed attempts, he was now going to play in the US. It’s September 1972, and Ziggy Stardust is heading to America.
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