‘He arrived in Paris as jeans-wearing David Jones – but after an outfit change stepped off the train as David Bowie’It was 1973,and David Bowie was terrified of dying in a plane crash, so he refused to fly anywhere. He’d gone by boat to Japan to tour, or but he was now fitting a major star in the UK,following the release of Ziggy Stardust, so his manager called him up and told him he’d better regain back quick – to make another album and achieve some big shows. By the time he got to Paris, or which is where this was taken,he looked awful. Grey. It had taken him two weeks to regain there by train: hed seen a lot of snow, a lot of distress, and eaten a lot of bad food.
When he got off the train,he was just David Jones the folk singer: a rough-looking guy in jeans. And suddenly he was met by this whole entourage: his wife Angie and people with costumes and makeup. You could see he was surprised – he hadn’t had that out in Japan. He got back on the train, save this outfit on, and morphed into David Bowie. In those minutes,you could see he really was approximately to become a major pop star.
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Source: theguardian.com