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

© Evening Standard/Getty Images

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

© Alain Dejean

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

© Christian Simonpietri

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

© Kevin Cummins

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Yes, I’m back. This is still quite a low-activity blog, though.

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

Fan photos © Hunter Desportes.

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

Fan photos © Sten Emerot.

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Definitely worth a listen. Many listens.

Oh, now here’s a beautiful Bowie cover! Time, from Bowie Songs One, with Linda Hergarten’s vocals and Clifford Slapper on piano. Enjoy.

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DB & Romy Haag

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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

A wonderful live rendition of one of my favourite songs of all. I do wonder whether he kept the mispronunciation of “Crowley” on purpose. I think he did.

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… 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.

For the visual and the full thing, please head over here.

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DB, 1977 (photograph: Carlo Massarini)

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An interview with David Bowie and Cameron Crowe, Rolling Stone No. 206, February 12th 1976.

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1977, I think.

Hansa Studio, Berlin…

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“someone must have said, ‘let’s slow him down.’”

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I’m so much in love like the ragged soldier catching butterflies