Woody Woodmansey reflects on his time in the Spiders From Mars including the moment David Bowie announced his retirement as Ziggy Stardust: Woody Woodmansey on David Bowie
Woody Woodmansey by Mick Rock
Yeah, it was a total surprise. I kind of thought he was going to make some changes, but not that drastic. [laughs] And we didn’t even know, really, if he was joking, because we got used to the fact that he would often do things that were unpredictable that he hadn’t told he was going to do and you had to ride with it, so it could have been one of those. It was only later when we found out now he didn’t want to do the Ziggy thing anymore.
