And Lady Gaga sang her songs…
Here follows an excerpt from an interview she did with Alexa Chung on MTV this week, wherein LG was describing the various double disc collector editions of her debut album, The Fame, which are due in a couple of weeks.
She became quite animated describing the different versions and so Alexa asked her if she collected stuff herself…
AC: Are you like that about anything? Are you an avid collector of any musician’s…
LG: David Bowie!
AC: Oh really? Amazing. I’ve got an amazing print of him. It’s his old passport photo, don’t know if you’ve seen it, someone took it in the sixties.
LG: I used to sit in my apartment for hours and do his make up on myself over and over again.
AC: Awesome!
You can see the full interview
The sixties passport print that Alexa mentioned was in fact taken by Ray Stevenson in Beckenham following the instruction from David: “Everyone looks so bad in their passport photos, so lets do a really bad one!”.
In Ray’s book, Photo Past, there’s a frame from the same session where David is looking far more manic than the shot eventually chosen for his passport, above.
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Let’s be honest though, would you shell out almost one and a half grand for a bloody great big print of that scruffy, unshaven sod? I know I would.