Mojo (UK)

THERE IS APPARENTLY A COCKTAIL

- JOHN MULVEY, EDITOR

called Tiger On Vaseline available in a London bar these days: a remodelled Piña Colada that, among other things, involves roasted pineapple juice. Perhaps you don’t have one to hand? No matter – a pint of milk will do just as well, as you’ll hopefully join us in raising a glass to one of our very finest.

Auspicious birthdays demand auspicious celebratio­ns, and that’s what we’ve tried to arrange for this special edition of MOJO to mark Ziggy Stardust turning 50. His conception date is a little hazy, as is the way of these things. But Ziggy was delivered in physical form to British record stores on June 16, 1972, precipitat­ing a short life and epic afterlife that has resonated more than those of most real superstars over the last five decades.

Our guestlist is illustriou­s, featuring as it does two Spiders, a rock’n’roll-ready producer, an accommodat­ing roadie, key eyewitness­es from Detroit’s Masonic Temple and Aylesbury’s Friars Club, an ultra-ambitious manager and, more ambitious still, Ziggy’s elusive “interprete­r, negotiator and head mistress”, Angie Bowie. “If you don’t want to conquer the world, don’t waste my fucking time,” she remembers. The thing is, he didn’t waste anyone’s time…

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