David Bowie: Best Dressed Mainman at The Twilight Zone Ball
Nick Kent, Creem, August 1973
SOME SAY THAT the only reason Mick Rock got that job as Mainman's official photographer/sometime designer was because Angie Bowie fancied his wife. That's a solid maybe – you know how these kids like to dish the dirt around – but Rock was nonetheless given his chance to shine for one fleeting moment, being at the right place at the right time, his lens gleaming, for the summit-meeting of the O-minds.
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