Starman

The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, 1972

TOMMY SHAW, Styx

“I’m tempted to say Blackstar, because that album blew my mind, but I’m going to go with Starman. It came out forty-five years ago but it still sounds so current. It starts one way and goes off in another direction. It’s typical Bowie – it could have been released yesterday. He was a guy of so many different flavours.”

LUKE MORLEY, thunder

“It still resonates with me because it was the first Bowie song I heard.

I saw that legendary appearance on Top Of The Pops, seeing him and Ronson and thinking: ‘Fucking hell, what’s that? Is it an alien?’ My mind was completely fused by it and I knew he would be absolutely enormous. It made me into an enormous fan.”