Ziggyology

by Simon Goddard

  Burroughs, William S., The Wild Boys (Penguin Classics, 2008)

  Cann, Kevin, Any Day Now: David Bowie – The London Years 1947–74 (Adelita, 2010)

  Carey, Hugh, Duet For Two Voices: An Informal Biography Of Edward Dent Compiled From His Letters To Clive Carey (Cambridge University Press, 1980)

  Cato, Philip, Crash Course For The Ravers – A Glam Odyssey (S.T. Publishing 1997)

  Chusid, Irwin, Songs In The Key Of Z (Cherry Red Books, 2000)

  Clark, Stuart, The Big Questions: The Universe (Quercus, 2010)

  Condon, Dr Edward, Scientific Study Of Unidentified Flying Objects (Bantam, 1969)

  Conway, Michael with Dion McGregor and Mark Ricci, The Films Of Greta Garbo (Citadel Press, 1974)

  Coren, Michael, The Invisible Man – The Life And Liberties of H. G. Wells (Bloomsbury, 1993)

  Crowe, Michael J., The Extraterrestrial Life Debate: Antiquity To 1915 (A Source Book) (University Of Notre Dame, 2008)

  Dawson, Jim and Steve Propes, What Was The First Rock ’n’ Roll Record? (Faber & Faber, 1992)

  De Saint-Exupéry, Antoine, The Little Prince (Wordsworth, 1995)

  Dickson, Lovat, H. G. Wells – His Turbulent Life And Times (MacMillan, 1969)

  Edwards, Frank, Strange People (Pan, 1966)

  Edwards, Henry and Tony Zanetta, Stardust – The David Bowie Story (McGraw-Hill, 1986)

  Elson, Howard, Early Rockers (Proteus, 1982)

  Ernst, Earle, Three Japanese Plays From The Traditional Theatre (Oxford University Press, 1959)

  Ferguson, Kitty, Pythagoras: His Lives And The Legacy Of A Rational Universe (Icon, 2010)

  Foxe-Tyler, Cyrinda with Danny Fields, Dream On – Livin’ On The Edge With Steven Tyler And Aerosmith (Phoenix Books, 2009)

  Geller, Larry and Joel Spector, ‘If I Can Dream’ (Century, 1989)

  Gillman, Peter & Leni, Alias David Bowie (New English Library, 1987)

  Glitter, Gary, Leader – The Autobiography (Warner Books, 1992)

  Good, Timothy, Need To Know: UFOs, The Military And Intelligence (Pegasus, 2007)

  Gordon, Robert, The King On The Road (Hamlyn, 1996)

  Gosling, John, Waging The War Of The Worlds (McFarland & Company, 2009)

  Greene, Richard, Holst: The Planets (Cambridge University Press, 1995)

  Guralnick, Peter, Careless Love: The Unmaking Of Elvis Presley (Back Bay Books, 2000)

  Guralnick, Peter, Last Train To Memphis: The Rise Of Elvis Presley (Back Bay Books, 1994)

  Hammond, J.R., H. G. Wells – Interviews And Recollections (MacMillan, 1980)

  Heffer, Simon, Vaughan Williams (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000)

  Heinlein, Robert A., Grumbles From The Grave (Orbit, 1991)

  Heinlein, Robert A., Stranger In A Strange Land (Berkley Medallion, 1969)

  Holst, Imogen, Gustav Holst (Oxford University Press, 1938)

  Holst, Imogen, Holst (The Great Composers) (Faber & Faber, 1974)

  Holst, Imogen, The Music Of Gustav Holst And Holst’s Music Reconsidered (Oxford University Press, 1986)

  Hopkins, Jerry, Elvis (Warner Paperback Library, 1972)

  Hunter, Ian, Diary Of A Rock ’n’ Roll Star (Panther, 1974)

  Ikegami, Eiko, Bonds Of Civility: Aesthetic Networks And The Political Origins Of Japanese Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

  Kerouac, Jack, On The Road (Penguin, 1999)

  Kiedrowski, Thomas, Andy Warhol’s New York City (The Little Bookroom, 2011)

  Leupp, Gary P., Male Colors: The Construction Of Homosexuality In Tokugawa Japan (University of California Press, 1995)

  Lewis, Jerry Lee and Charles White, Killer! (Arrow, 1996)

  MacCormack, Geoff, From Station To Station – Travels With Bowie 1973–1976 (Genesis, 2007)

  MacDonald, Ian, Revolution In The Head: The Beatles’ Records And The Sixties (Pimlico, 1998)

  MacKenzie, Norman and Jeanne, The Time Traveller – The Life Of H. G. Wells (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973)

  Marcus, Greil (et al), Rockabilly: The Twang Heard Round The World (Voyageur Press, 2011)

  McAleer, Dave, Hit Parade Heroes (Hamlyn, 1993)

  McEvoy, J. P., A Brief History Of The Universe (Robinson, 2010)

  McLenehan, Cliff, Marc Bolan: 1947–1977 A Chronology (Helter Skelter, 2002)

  McVeagh, Diana M., Edward Elgar – His Life And Music (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1955)

  Mitton, Simon, Fred Hoyle: A Life In Science (Cambridge University Press, 2011)

  Moore, Scotty with James Dickerson, That’s Alright, Elvis (Schirmer, 1997)

  Murray, Andy, Into The Unknown: The Fantastic Life Of Nigel Kneale (Headpress, 2005)

  Nash, Alanna, Elvis Aaron Presley: Revelations From The Memphis Mafia (Harper, 1996)

  Newman, Ernest, The Unconscious Beethoven (Victor Gollancz, 1968)

  Ortolani, Benito, The Japanese Theatre: From Shamanistic Ritual To Contemporary Pluralism (Princeton University Press, 1995)

  Orwell, George, Critical Essays (Secker & Warburg, 1946)

  Parrinder, Patrick, H. G. Wells – The Critical Heritage (Routledge, 1972)

  Paytress, Mark, Bolan – The Rise And Fall Of A 20th Century Superstar (Omnibus Press, 2002)

  Pegg, Nicholas, The Complete David Bowie (Titan, 2011)

  Pierce, Patricia Jobe, The Ultimate Elvis (Simon & Schuster, 1994)

  Pitt, Kenneth, Bowie: The Pitt Report (Omnibus Press, 1980)

  Pound, Ezra and Ernest Fenollosa, The Classic Noh Theatre Of Japan (New Directions, 1959)

  Pryce-Jones, Alan, Beethoven (Collier, 1966)

  Redfern, Nick, A Covert Agenda: The British Government’s UFO Top Secrets Exposed (Paraview Special Editions, 2004)

  Repsch, John, The Legendary Joe Meek (Woodford House, 1989)

  Richie, Donald, Japanese Portraits (Tuttle, 2006)

  Roberts, David (editor), Top 40 Charts (Guinness Publishing, 1992)

  Robertson, Alec and Denis Stevens, The Pelican History Of Music Volume 3: Classical And Romantic (Pelican, 1968)

  Rock, Mick and David Bowie, Moonage Daydream: The Life And Times Of Ziggy Stardust (Universe, 2005)

  Sachs, Harvey, The Ninth: Beethoven And The World In 1824 (Faber & Faber, 2010)

  Sagan, Carl, The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2000)

  Sagan, Carl, Cosmos (Abacus, 1995),

  Sagan, Carl with F.D. Drake, Ann Druyan, Timothy Ferris, Jon Lomberg and Linda Salzman Sagan, Murmurs Of Earth – The Voyager Interstellar Record (Random House, 1978)

  Sagan, Carl, The Varieties Of Scientific Experience: A Personal View Of The Search For God (Penguin, 2006)

  Sandford, Christopher, Loving The Alien (Time Warner, 1997)

  Santoro, Gene, Myself When I Am Real: The Life And Music Of Charles Mingus (Oxford University Press, 2000)

  Savage, Jon, England’s Dreaming (Faber & Faber, 1991)

  Savage, Jon, The England’s Dreaming Tapes (Faber & Faber, 2009)

  Schilling, Jerry with Chuck Crisafulli, Me And A Guy Named Elvis (Gotham Books, 2006)

  Scott, A. C., The Kabuki Theatre Of Japan (George Allen & Unwin, 1955)

  Sheehan, William, The Planet Mars (University of Arizona Press, 1997)

  Shipman, David, Cinema – The First Hundred Years (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993)

  Smith, David C., H. G. Wells – Desperately Mortal (Yale University Press, 1986)

  Sobel, Dava, The Planets (Penguin, 2006).

  Suchet, John, The Friendly Guide To Beethoven (Hodder, 2006)

  Sudhalter, Richard M., Stardust Melody – The Life And Music Of Hoagy Carmichael (Oxford University Press, 2002)

  Sullivan, J. W. M., Beethoven (Pelican, 1949)

  Tevis, Walter, The Man Who Fell To Earth (Penguin Classics, 2009)

  Thompson, Dave (editor), Beyond The Velvet Underground (Omnibus Press, 1989)

  Tremlett, George, The David Bowie Story (Futura, 1974)

  Trynka, Paul, Iggy Pop – Open Up And Bleed, (Sphere
, 2007)

  Trynka, Paul, Starman (Sphere, 2011)

  Turnill, Reginald, The Observer’s Spaceflight Directory (Frederick Warne, 1978)

  Unterberger, Richie, White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day (Jawbone, 2009)

  Verma, Surendra Verma, Why Aren’t They Here?: The Question Of Life On Other Worlds (Icon, 2007)

  Vermorel, Judy and Fred, Fandemonium (Omnibus Press, 1989)

  Visconti, Tony with Richard Havers, Bowie, Bolan And The Brooklyn Boy (HarperCollins, 2007)

  Warhol, Andy and Pat Hackett, POPism: The Warhol Sixties (Penguin Classics, 2007)

  Webster, Patrick, Love And Death In Kubrick: A Critical Study Of The Films From Lolita Through Eyes Wide Shut (McFarland & Company, 2011)

  Wegler, Franz and Ferdinand Ries, Beethoven Remembered (Great Ocean, 1987).

  Wells, H. G., Experiment In Autobiography Vols I & II (Faber & Faber, 1984)

  Wells, H. G., Star-Begotten (Sphere Books, 1975)

  Wells, H. G., Tono-Bungay (Modern Library, 2003)

  Wells, H. G., The War Of The Worlds (Penguin Classics, 2005)

  Wertheimer, Alfred, Elvis ’56: In The Beginning (Pimlico, 1994)

  West, Anthony, H. G. Wells – Aspects Of A Life (Hutchinson, 2007).

  Whitcomb, Ian, Whole Lotta’ Shakin’: A Rock ’n’ Roll Scrapbook (Arrow Books, 1982)

  White, Charles, The Life And Times Of Little Richard (Pan, 1985)

  Wood, Sir Henry, My Life Of Music (Victor Gollancz, 1938)

  Zak III, Albin, The Velvet Underground Companion (Omnibus Press/Schirmer, 1997)

  Of the above titles concerning David Bowie, three deserve special mention. The first is Kevin Cann’s Any Day Now: The London Years 1947– 74, a lusciously detailed and elegantly illustrated day-by-day catalogue of his life and career from birth until Diamond Dogs. The second is Nicholas Pegg’s repeatedly revised The Complete David Bowie which as a thumping great databank of impassioned Bowie analysis, information and trivia is no less biblical a reference. If Cann is Boswell to Bowie’s Johnson then Pegg is Watson to Bowie’s Holmes. Theirs are the paper ministries of Bowiedom to whom all authors staggering blindly down similar corridors will forever owe endless gratitude.

  Last but by no means least is Moonage Daydream, David Bowie’s own account of ‘The Life And Times Of Ziggy Stardust’ as he remembers it, published in conjunction with his friend, the legendary stardust lensman Mick Rock.

  Beyond the above bibliography, Ziggyology was collated from too many vitamin-sapping hours subsisting on the ventilation system of the British Library, Euston Road and more so the lonesome Orwellian fortress that is the British Newspaper Library, Colindale. To cite every individual source would be to burden this book with an extra hundred pages of needlessly academic quibble-settling footnotes which would dull the lustre of the spirit in which Ziggyology was written. For sake of brevity, the list of periodicals consulted included: Aberdeen Evening Express, Battersea News, The Blackshirt, Brixton Advertiser, Bromley Advertiser, Catford & Lewisham Journal, Croydon Advertiser, Curious, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Daily Telegraph, Disc & Music Echo, Dundee Courier, Evening News, Evening Standard, Fabulous 208, Fulham Chronicle, Glasgow Evening Times, the Guardian, Hammersmith & Fulham News & Post, Honey, Jackie, Kent and Sussex Courier, Look-In, Melody Maker, Mirabelle, Mojo, New Musical Express, Press And Journal (Aberdeen), Radio Times, Record Mirror, Sounds, The Sun, the Sunday Mirror, The Sunday Times, The Times, TV Times, Uncut, Vanity Fair, Vogue, West London and Hammersmith Gazette, West London Observer and Woman’s Journal. With particular thanks to the period interviews of Ray Fox-Cumming, Henry Edwards, Timothy Ferris, Martin Hayman, Roy Hollingworth, Nick Kent, Pete Lennon, Robert Muesel, Charles Shaar Murray, Sandie Robbie, Lisa Robinson, Mick Rock, Rosalind Russell, Annie Tipton, Andrew Tyler, Cherry Vanilla and Michael Watts.

  Prologue heading Arthur C. Clarke quote from the documentary Stanley Kubrick: A Life In Pictures directed by Jan Harlan (Warner Bros, 2001). Epilogue heading ‘songs and trousers’ quote as told to Paul Du Noyer for Mojo magazine, July 2002.

  Thanks to Katie Ankers at the BBC Written Archives Centre for her help in accessing the production notes of the July 1972 ‘Starman’ Top Of The Pops broadcast.

  A last starry salute must also go to Michael Harvey who between 1996 and 2007 lovingly curated the fan website ‘The Ziggy Stardust Companion’, still accessible at the time of this book’s publication at www.5years.com.

  INDEX

  The page references in this index correspond to the printed edition from which this ebook was created. To find a specific word or phrase from the index, please use the search feature of your ebook reader.

  Aladdin Sane (album), 256, 276, 285, 287, 303

  ‘Aladdin Sane (1913–1938–197?)’, 250, 257

  ‘All The Young Dudes’, 206, 209, 226, 231, 234, 249, 252, 290, 298, 300

  ‘Amsterdam’, 101, 134, 196, 273

  ‘Andy Warhol’, 171, 176 Apollo 8, see Borman

  Armstrong, Neil (Apollo 11), 20, 146–7

  Arnold, Kenneth (UFO sighting), 80, 97

  Arnold Corns, The, 170, 191, 197

  ‘Around & Around’, see ‘Round And Round’

  Astronettes, The, 232, 234

  Ayshea, 217–9, 220, 221, 222

  Barnett, Angie, see Bowie, Angie

  Barrett, Syd, 116, 131, 170, 179, 297

  Bart, Lionel, 186, 191

  Batman, 126, 170

  Beatles, The, 34, 105, 132–3, 168, 202, 206, 211, 226, 255, 271, 276, 278, 287, 290; ‘Love Me Do’, 105, 255, 290; Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, 32–3, 135, see also Lennon, McCartney and Starr

  Beck, Jeff, 290, 296

  Beethoven, 11, 27–34, 36, 44, 46, 48, 49, 61, 63, 68, 93, 129, 137, 178, 179, 195, 200, 225, 253, 262, 280, 290

  Berry, Chuck, 34, 93, 102, 129, 146, 197, 199, 255, 290

  Bethel, Barry (‘The Ted From Islington’), 289

  Bewitched, 234

  ‘Bewlay Brothers, The’, 171

  Bingenheimer, Rodney, 164, 245

  Black Tie White Noise, 300

  Boink, 248

  Bolan, Marc, 107–8, 140–4, 145, 146, 147, 148–52, 156, 164, 165–6, 179, 192–3, 197, 198, 199, 202–3, 206, 207, 208, 209, 220, 221, 223, 226, 231, 232, 235, 238, 241, 244, 245, 248, 253, 254–5, 256, 258, 259, 265–6, 272, 286, 302–3; Born To Boogie (film), 254; albums: Electric Warrior, 192; My People Were Fair, 144; The Slider, 231, 238; Zinc Alloy And The Hidden Riders Of Tomorrow, 286; songs: ‘20th Century Boy’, 265; ‘Children Of The Revolution’, 231, 244; ‘Debora’, 140, 143; ‘Elemental Child’, 149–50; ‘Get It On’, 165, 197; ‘The Groover’, 286; ‘Hot Love’, 164, 165, 234; ‘Jeepster’, 179; ‘King Of The Rumbling Spires’, 147; ‘Metal Guru’, 208, 254; ‘Oh Baby’, 151; ‘Ride A White Swan’, 151–2, 165, 303; ‘Solid Gold Easy Action’, 254; ‘Telegram Sam’, 192, 198, 199, 238; ‘The Wizard’, 142

  Bolder, Trevor, see Weird

  Borman, Frank (Apollo 8), 139, 144

  Bowie, Angie, 148, 149, 153, 166, 167, 170, 174, 186, 203–4, 213, 214, 227, 228, 235, 237, 239, 245, 252, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 288, 296, 297, 301

  Bowie, Zowie, 170, 171, 187, 278, 301

  Boy George, 252

  Brel, Jacques, 101, 134, 137, 146, 196, 232, 238, 259, 261, 263, 273, 276, 290

  Brown, James, 201

  Bruno, Giordano, 17

  Buckmaster, Paul, 145

  Buell, Bebe, 264

  Burgess, Anthony, 61, 119, 178, 179

  Burns, Peggy (mother of David Bowie), 54–5, 58, 60, 62, 63–4, 97, 131, 203, 280, 301

  Burns, Terry (brother of David Bowie), 58, 60, 64, 97, 102, 104, 130–1, 149, 171, 262, 283, 301

  Burretti, Freddie, 169, 170, 177, 187, 190, 205, 206, 214, 218, 229, 249, 252, 278, 296, 301

  Burroughs, William, 98, 132, 298

  Buzz, The, 116

  Cale, John, 122–5, 155, 161

  ‘Can’t Help Thinking About Me’,
115

  Captain Marvel, 68, 77, 211

  Carlos, Walter, 179

  Carmichael, Hoagy, 57–8, 61, 71, 299

  Cassidy, David, 3, 208, 248, 266

  ‘Changes’, 172

  Cherry, Ava, 264

  Child, June, 150, 255

  Childers, Leee Black, 174, 213, 238

  ‘Chim Chim Che-ree’, 112

  Clapton, Eric, 130, 149

  Clarke, Arthur C., 1, 128–9, 135, 136, 146, 162, 238

  Clockwork Orange, A, (Burgess novel) 61, 119, 178; (Kubrick film) 4, 178–9, 188, 195, 243, 280, 281

  Cochran, Eddie, 100–1, 102, 110, 169, 197, 234

  Condon UFO Report, 84

  Conn, Leslie, 106–8, 142

  Cooper, Alice, 231

  Copernicus, 16–17, 21

  Cossart, Ernest, 54

  County, Wayne, 174, 213

  ‘Cracked Actor’, 245, 250

  Cracked Actor (BBC Omnibus), 298

  Cream, 130, 149, 200

  Cromie, Robert, 53

  Crosby, Bing, 58, 63

  Crowley, Aleister, 151

  Curious, 170

  Curtis, Ian, 208

  Dali, Salvador, 119, 263, 264

  David Bowie (first album, 1967), 132–3

  David Bowie (second album, 1969, retitled Space Oddity), 149

  David Bowie Extermination Society, The, 235

  Day The Earth Stood Still, The, 81

  Dead Of Night, 12, 41

  Dean, James, 99, 234, 246

  Deegan, Denis, 125

  DeFries, Tony, 166, 167, 175–6, 187, 190, 206, 209, 213–4, 227, 229, 232, 235, 238–40, 242, 245, 264, 267–8, 270, 271–2, 275, 282, 284, 286, 287, 301

  Diamond Dogs, 298, 300

  Dib Cochran & The Earwigs, 151

  ‘Did You Ever Have A Dream’, 118

  Diddley, Bo, 122, 242, 243, 256, 302

  Dietrich, Marlene, 52, 54

  Dion & The Belmonts, 275

  ‘Dirty Old Man’, 126, 132

  Disc (Disc & Music Echo), 190, 195, 207

  Dolce Vita, La, 119

  Donegan, Lonnie, 94

  Dr Strangelove, 128, 132, 157

  ‘Drive-In Saturday’, 246, 250, 251, 257, 271, 278, 297

  Druyan, Ann, 34

  Dudgeon, Gus, 145, 207

  Duffy (Brian, photographer), 257 Dylan, Bob, 106, 109, 113, 119, 129, 132, 141, 171, 287

  Elgar, 45, 46, 48, 179, 281, 292

  Epicurus, 15

  Everett, Kenny, 225