When was hunky dory released

To make up for the headlines that his life of drug-free monogamy have deprived them of, the tabloids have taken to exhuming ever-more outrageous stories from Bowie's past.

As indifferent as he is to what's written about him, there must be a temptation to clear up any confusion over his relationship with Mick Jagger, or whether that was really a Nazi salute he delivered at London's Victoria Station.

The one thing that's a possibility, if I can find the time, is taking all the apocryphal stories and turning them into a stage piece. Y'know, create a new person out of the myths and rumours. Even in my out-of-my-nut stages I seem to have not thrown anything away. I probably have more than anybody else around if that definitive book would ever come out. I think it's much more likely that I'll end up archiving completely on the net. Just assemble the stuff that's collected over the years. Like a presidential library but for rock stars.

How does he rate the current crop of fly-on-the-walls, kiss-and-tells and never-met-him-in-my-lifes? It's got to the point where the cut and paste is being cut and pasted, which makes for some really strange juxtapositions.

I've yet to read one that's made me go, Yeah, they've got it. There will be, though, I'm sure. Bowie is equally dismissive of Velvet Goldmine, Todd Haynes' retelling of the Ziggy story which was mainly noteworthy for the way it bombed at the box-office.

A third of the way through the script, it had lost me completely. I didn't understand what was going on. There's an old axiom in film which is, If it's not on the page, it ain't on the stage.

There was a real problem with the writing, so I was quite happy to let it pass. Not even remotely. There wasn't anywhere near enough shopping, which was a fundamental part of the early 70s. They were such humourless bastards in that film. Perleeeeese, get a life. The good news for fans who still get a stiffy when they hear the strummed intro to Starman, is that Bowie is currently working on no fewer than three Ziggy spin-offs. The internet piece is like, 'who's his mum? We"ll do a massive casting call for the lucky lad, but I'm going to remain on the other side of the camera.

I don't think I'm being unduly nostalgic when I say that Bowie performing the aforementioned 'Starman' on Top Of The Pops rates as one of rock 'n' roll's defining moments. Indeed, you only have to look at Suede and Gay Dad to see that Ziggy is still alive and walking among us.

Does his creator reckon that there's anybody around today who's worthy of such slavish adoration? I'm quite sure that if I was in that 13 to 16 age-bracket, I wouldn't have time for anything else. It's such a Pandora's Box that I d be absolutely glued to it. I'd be a hacker, probably.

This is something really exciting! We got off on that. David would always get Ken to push the record button without Mick knowing. In the months prior to the sessions, he had been studying music theory and arranging with a teacher back in Hull.

That bit of knowledge, combined with his innate musicality, made for the stunning string arrangements on songs like Life On Mars? Much like The Beatles.

Very full of respect for each other. They were young and very sweet, well-mannered, trying to be as professional as they could. There were no drugs. They were just doing this wonderful album and everyone was thrilled at having a chance to participate instead of having to work horrible jobs. Bowie says he had been fixated on the Velvets since the first time he heard their single Waiting For The Man.

This is the new Beatles! For me it was a whole new ball game. It was serious and dangerous and I loved it. As for the song Andy Warhol , Bowie wrote what he thought was a tribute. That is until he returned to New York in September and played it for Warhol. I was kind of left there. It was my shoes that got him. He absolutely adored them.

Then I found out that he used to do a lot of shoe designing when he was younger. That kind of broke the ice. I always teased him about that one, because it was a big, autobiographical confessional song.

Just down the street from Trident, there was a tobacconist which apparently gave him the inspiration for the name. I was never quite sure what real position Terry had in my life, whether Terry was a real person or whether I was actually referring to another part of me.

From start to finish, the album took two weeks to record and two to mix. With a sleeve image suggesting a George Hurell portrait of Veronica Lake, Bowie seemed ready for his close-up.

Despite glowing reviews, first-quarter worldwide sales barely reached 5, Not that Bowie noticed. But those close to Hunky Dory , while acknowledging its vital role in opening the space hatch and clearing the way for Ziggy, secretly prefer it as the stronger work.

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