steel on the skyline

Bed head Ziggy. David Bowie, February 3rd 1973. Well-dressed as always.

David Bowie on the set of Just a Gigolo, 21st December 1977. Exact same tweed jacket I always wear!

David Bowie on the set of his video for Be My Wife, 28th June 1977.

David Bowie playing keys on Iggy Pop’s The Idiot tour, Manchester Apollo, 3rd March 1977.

David Bowie at the Capital Centre, Washington DC, 11 November 1974.

David Bowie at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, May 1 1978.

David Bowie - Quicksand (Live at the John Labatt Centre, London, Canada, 2004)

I’m frightened by the total goal Drawing to the ragged hole And I ain’t got the power any more

… and all at once, the outward appearance of meaning is transcended; and you find yourself struggling to comprehend a deep and formidable mystery:

I’m dying. You’re dying.

Second by second, all is transient. Does it matter? Do I bother?

Yes, I do. Life is fantastic. It never ends. It only changes. Flesh, to stone, to flesh, and round, and round.

Best keep walking.

In 1998, for the BBC, David Bowie made a mini-series titled „Conversation Piece“, where celebrities discussed their favourite sculptures. He himself did David Bowie - In Stillness and in Silence (Sacred) by British artist Richard Devereux. This is the most poignant part of the two minute piece and a really rare insight to what kind of thoughts art provoked in Bowie.