I'll help you with the pain

"Time takes a cigarette puts it in your mouth"

So Marc was wanking his Fender with his tambourine and young girls were wetting themselves all over Britain. But Bowie took fellatio and masturbation to an artistic level hitherto unknown in mainstream culture. If ever you needed a diversion from the 3-day week and power cuts this was it! And I was the only one with a copy of Starman in April - so I could be heard singing "Wham! Bam! Thank you ma'am!" for weeks with impunity. (Suffragette City was the flip). Most people thought I'd come from Mars!

I was warning my best mates that Marc had some serious competition. And RCA thought Bowie was a novelty act and were still hedging their bets on their old stable-favourites, The Sweet!! (How did they get away with nicking the riff from 'The Jean Genie' for 'Blockbuster?' Especially after Bowie had pinched it already!)

"Gimme your hands!.......coz you're wonderful!"