Comments on: The ‘Ziggy Stardust’ phone box, 1972-2009 http://www.retronaut.co/2010/06/the-ziggy-stardust-phone-box-1972-2009/ The past is a foreign country. This is your passport. Sat, 19 Nov 2024 04:13:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Maurice http://www.retronaut.co/2010/06/the-ziggy-stardust-phone-box-1972-2009/#comment-86673 Maurice Mon, 07 Nov 2024 05:58:07 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=4301#comment-86673 As a twelve year old I thought this David Bowie character was brilliantly weird and this album cover had enough strangeness and mystery to write a novel about it. He really did look like he had beamed down from outer space onto a desolate and dying planet. Now, I tend to think that Kanye West should appropriate that cover solely for the ego-aggrandising "K. West" sign. If I ever get to London I will head for Heddon St, not Abbey Rd. As a twelve year old I thought this David Bowie character was brilliantly weird and this album cover had enough strangeness and mystery to write a novel about it. He really did look like he had beamed down from outer space onto a desolate and dying planet.

Now, I tend to think that Kanye West should appropriate that cover solely for the ego-aggrandising “K. West” sign.

If I ever get to London I will head for Heddon St, not Abbey Rd.

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