The one and only is 63 today. Here’s the ever-luminous Space Oddity, by way of celebration:

And, as a special bonus, an audio-only clip of  one of his very early songs, ‘The Gospel According to Tony Day’. Been humming this a lot over the last few days. All the fault of this week’s Patricia Hewitt/Geoff Hoon anti-Brown publicity. It mentions “Pat Hewitt”, see.

Happy birthday David, you magnificent creature.

David Bowie in 1969