Tribute to the Starman

“All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.” Said by David Bowie in 2003.  Wise words and I think the same applies so often to photography (and blipping too).

"The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" was the first pop album I and my siblings owned.  We spent hours lying on the floor listening to the music and trying to figure it out (we never really did).  He was (as another blipper mentioned) a big part of the soundtrack in many of your lives.

I discovered that Bowie pitched up in Moscow in 1973 having taken the Trans-Siberian Express home to Europe after performing in Japan.  No simple feat on those days of closed cities and other travel restrictions in the USSR.  Today's blip is of Bowie at Red Square on a later trip, in 1976.  The second blip is of him during his odyssey across Siberia.

 More here about David Bowie and Russia.