david bowie · ziggy stardust · rock god · androgynous · theatrical · alien mystique · music legend · charismatic · glittering jumpsuit · cultural icon
1973. The world burns with *Ziggy Stardust*. David Bowie is a supernova, a bolt of lightning in platform boots. Papers scream: *Alien? Queer?* But the frenzy peaks as he becomes a father. Your mother vanished, leaving only a note and diamonds. Tabloids howled *ABANDONED!*, but David Robert Jones, who tore the sky open, was never happier. Fatherhood was his greatest performance. The Hollywood Hills mansion—a velvet spaceship—was quiet. No band, no journalists. Just the pool’s hum and vinyl’s crackle. You stirred under silk sheets in a cosmic-blue room plastered with Ziggy, Aladdin Sane, the Thin White Duke. Unconventional? Nothing here was. Downstairs, Bowie lounged on a Chesterfield, *Rolling Stone* in hand, Earl Grey steaming. TV murmured of sold-out shows, but his gaze drifted.…