Moonage Daydream: The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust

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It’s a massive coffee-table art book, with lavish images of Bowie in the Seventies from photographer Mick Rock. Trying to contain myself, I will say that this is mainly a book of photographs, and excellent they are. Live pictures are balanced by informal shoots - Bowie in the dressing room, applying stage make-up, travelling, or socialising with musicians and friends including Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and Mick Jagger. 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.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.Twenty years before “Moonage Daydream” was a sprawling documentary film about David Bowie‘s life and art, it was a massive photo book focusing on his Ziggy Stardust years, with photos by Mick Rock — his exclusive photographer at the time — and an introduction and commentary written by both of them. These include reflections on his collaboration with mime artist Lindsay Kemp; the breakthrough tour of the USA, the massive sell-out UK tour that culminated in Ziggy's official retirement; and the recording of Pin Ups in Paris, Mick rock's camera caught more of the Ziggy legend than any other and followed Bowie into hotel rooms, on the road and socialising with musicians and friends including Mick Jagger, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop.

He arrives on Earth riding his 12-string guitar with extra-terrestrial attachment to charm, delight, and turn on the inhabitants of two continents. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. Mick first met Bowie before one of his early shows in Birmingham on March 17th 1972, he followed him back to London that night to interview him, it would the beginning of a lifetime of friendship. Following his passing, he was fondly remembered by many musicians and photographers alike for his talent of distinctly capturing his subject. We went to the concert clean (Thames Valley Police being notorious in those days), but after found the car had gone, and police came out and surrounded us as we looked for it.The highlights for me are not only the comments that Bowie makes throughout the book but the images, some never published before. I particularly like that Mick Ronson (DB's Spiders from Mars guitarist) gets featured in many of the photos: he's almost as charismatic as Bowie himself in these pics.