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Moonage Daydream: The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust

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He arrives on Earth riding his 12-string guitar with extra-terrestrial attachment to charm, delight, and turn on the inhabitants of two continents. 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.

It is quarter bound in blue leather with a photograph foiled on the front and rear and gold/silver blocking. An extravagant coffee-table book that collects Mick Rock's photographs of the chameleon rock star as Ziggy Stardust . In 2002, David Bowie and Mick Rock created Moonage Daydream, the defining document of the life and times of Ziggy Stardust. I rarely pre-warned the band of things that I might get up to, as many interesting ideas were shot down before they were even hatched, such was the conservative disposition of those particular arthropods, Mick usually the main offender.The images are a backstage pass look at what occurred during tour performances, on the road, and promotional photo shoots for magazines and albums. The added dimension is that DB has written notes for many of them, explaining what was happening, how he felt at the time or identifying other people in the frame. which] features a 15,000-word text by Bowie, who's hardly ever gone on record, certainly not at such length and with so much detail, about Ziggy and the glam era. 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. The closest we'll ever get to a straight up Bowie autobiography -- but who'd ever want anything straight-up from Bowie?

A very consciously created persona by Bowie that was representative of the celebrity cycle of a rockstar. The highlights for me are not only the comments that Bowie makes throughout the book but the images, some never published before. This the blurb from the dustwrapper: "Moonage Daydream is the most complete detailed exploration of one of rock'n'roll's greatest creations: Ziggy Stardust.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,” Bowie wrote of the first edition. 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 beautiful limited edition.

Published in a new larger format, this uncut edition keeps to Bowie and Rock's original vision, allowing us to explore Moonage Daydream the way the authors intended. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie was widely regarded as an influential innovator, particularly for his work through the 1970s. Folio, original quarter leathers over illustrated boards, photographic endpapers, all edges silver, illustrated with photographs by Mick Rock.For some reason they thought we were big time dealers rather than 3 stupid 17 year olds up from sticks. 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.

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