by Gavin Friday
“People stared at the make up on his face
laughed at his long black hair, his animal grace
the boy in the bright blue jeans jumped up on the stage,
Lady Stardust sang his songs of darkness and dismay”
David Bowie
As a teenager it was David Bowie who turned me onto music and Oscar Wilde to literature, “The rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust” and “The Picture of Dorian Gray” from the seductive and ruthless charms of Dorian Gray’s Faustian pact to the tragic romantic chaos of Ziggy Stardust selling his soul to rock and roll. To be totally honest I hadn’t a clue at the time what Bowie and Wilde were going on about but deep down in the subliminal I understood everything, and with all the typical teenage angst in the world I was hooked. It was all or nothing! From then on my whole world revolved around three things, Music-Books-Art.