A woman walking up the street toward her office greets Bowie with a genial smile. Whatever Bowie may say about wearing glasses and keeping his head down, he is still a face that few people fail instantly to recognise. The woman informs him that the photographer has moved on and so has the company, K.West, under whose sign Bowie stood with his foot up on a rubbish bin twenty-one years ago. At home, Bowie has got hundreds of photographs of fans who sent him pictures of themselves with their foot on a dustbin under the K.West sign. It's such a shame that sign went.
People read so much into it.
It took on all these sort of mystical overtones. We did the photographs outside on a rainy night. That was a really heavy book that had come out in about 1970, and it was a cross between that and Clockwork Orange that really started to put together the shape and the look of what Ziggy and the Spiders were going to become. They were both powerful pieces of work, especially the marauding boy gangs of Burrough's Wild Boys with their Bowie knives. I got straight on to that.