David Bowie: "Goodbye Ziggy" Article (1973)

David Bowie’s "Goodbye Ziggy", a one-page article in New Musical Express, January 27, 1973.

WEEKEND SOUTH BANK STUDIOS

AS THE CAB pulls up outside London Weekends - South Bank studios, it's possible to see the David Bowie Travelling Cosmic Circus elegantly disembarking from a limo about 50 yards up the road.

That fluffy scarlet head of hair lights up the grey South Bank as the fluorescent crocodile of exotic humanity ducks into a side entrance, not to be seen for some little while.

In Studio 3, an organ and electric piano are set up, apparently unconnected to anything even vaguely resembling an amplifier. Floor managers, camera operators, and directors are milling about excitedly, and a token audience is lolling unconcernedly in their display racks.

After what is apparently considered a decent interval, Georgie Fame appears behind the organ, Alan Price behind the piano.