You’re face to face, With The Man Who Sold The World…
Above is the annotation to a full-page mono reproduction of one of
It’s a shot you’re all familiar with and it can be found on page 282 of
As NME correctly states, the series of pix were mainly shot during backing vocal takes for Lulu‘s gorgeous version of The Man Who Sold The World.
So, rather than reproduce the pic they used again, here’s another from the session that never made it into Moonage Daydream, courtesy of Mick Rock.
Just look at that profile…sharp enough to cut diamonds…which is precisely what Bowie did next.