And once there were sun birds to soar with…
When I set this contest last week, (12.04.2008 NEWS: WIN SIGNED OFFICIAL ZIGGY STARDUST OUT-TAKES CALENDAR) it wasn’t for no reason that I used the song title It Ain’t Easy for that day’s lyric quotation.
I can honestly say though, that I didn’t think it would drive quite as many of you to the edge of madness in quite the way it did and I received more desperate and pleading e-mails from suicidal types than I care to count.
And all because of that elusive little diamante bird brooch that the fledgling Ziggy first sported in January 1972.
When I set the contest I mentioned a news piece back in October regarding the hitherto unreported brooch that was just about visible in a couple of the Ziggy out-take shots. (10.15.2008 NEWS: DB REMEMBERS ZIGGY STARDUST BIRD BROOCH)
As I said last week, this wasn’t the only time Ziggy wore the brooch, as BowieNetter KarmaMan proved when he sent in one of the shots from the above session.
The session was conducted in DB’s hotel room by 16 Magazine?s editor in chief, Gloria Stavers, during Bowie’s first American tour in 1972. Indeed, this is the session that the majority of you sent in a picture from as your entry.
However, Bowie had already worn the brooch publicly way back at the start of the year for his famous Melody Maker front page interview, see below. (
This interview was conducted within days of the Ziggy Stardust album cover session.
Admittedly, Melody Maker reversed the picture and the brooch isn’t immediately apparent until you actually know it’s there…just about where the left nipple would be.
In fact, only one entrant mentioned this session, and that was the first of our five winners, who are…
2lips
excelsiordivine
jackie_c
mooch
webwolf
Well done folks, I guess you’re all in need of an appointment at the optician now. Still, trawling through gazillions of Bowie pix is hardly a chore, is it?
Send in your name and address and we’ll have your signed 2009 Ziggy calendar with you before you need it.
Stay tuned for the second of five weekly contests that will take us into the new year.