1. David BowieDavid Bowie (aka Space Oddity)

I must have been around 12 or so and living in Wellingborough when I first heard ‘Space Oddity.’ I must have heard it on the radio initially and it was like a visitation. It wasn’t just a song, it was a transmission from another realm. This voice, almost alien, floating in orbit above the everyday drabness of terrestrial life. Major Tom wasn’t just an astronaut, he was the archetype of beautiful isolation. I immediately bought this album. Who has not laid back and tried to decipher the lyrics of ‘Memory Of A Free Festival,’ whilst listening and imagining? Before Ziggy came along, this emerging theatrical person was arriving, and I knew something was going to happen with him.