The death of David Bowie - He changed our world for the better

BIOGRAPHERS assure us that Elvis Presley was born in sweaty, bluesy Tupelo, in Mississippi, (January 8, 1935) and that Bob Dylan was born in America’s cold, wind-bitten, Minnesota mining town of Duluth (May 24, 1941).

They also assert that David Robert Jones was born in Brixton, London, just after WWII (January 8, 1947 — the same birthday as Presley), but it does not require the total suspension of reality to imagine that the person Jones became — David Bowie — was, like another of his alter egos, Ziggy Stardust, born, or at least conceived or discovered, on Mars.

David Bowie, the Thin White Duke, died peacefully yesterday, aged 69, after an 18-month battle with cancer.