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There you go, day and night Up in the clouds, flying so high You see things that make your big heart sing Like flowers, trees and pretty things Dream on dreamer, and might life get in your way Release yourself and fly away You feel the need to be free A dreamer, that's what you'll be

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new york on kodachrome by tod papageorge, 1966-1967 (via)

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The rise and fall of ziggy stardust and the spiders from Mars

David Bowie album cover, shot on 13 January 1972 in Mayfair, London.

The back of the album tells you it is "to be played at maximum volume."

The photograph was taken during a photoshoot at Ward's Heddon Street studio in London, just off Regent Street. Suggesting they take photos outside before natural light was lost, Bowie, who was ill with flu, went outside just as it started to rain. Not willing to go very far, he stood outside the home of furriers "K. West" at 23 Heddon Street. The "K" stands for Konn, the surname of the company's founder Henry Konn, and the "West" indicated it was on the west end of London. Soon after Ziggy Stardust became a massive success, the directors of K. West were displeased with their company's name appearing on a pop album. However tensions eased and the company soon became accustomed to tourists photographing themselves on the doorstep. K. West moved out of the Heddon Street location in 1991 and the sign was taken down; the site remains a popular "place of pilgrimage" for Bowie fans. Bowie said of the sign, "It's such a shame that sign was removed. People read so much into it. They thought 'K. West' must be some sort of code for 'quest.' It took on all these sort of mystical overtones". Rolling Stone ranked the cover the 31st best album cover of all time.

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Italian actress Elsa Martinelli during the shooting of the movie 'La risaia' in Casalino, August 1955.

That year, she would breakthrough in Hollywood and be described by the Sydney Morning Herald as “a kind of Audrey Hepburn with sxx appeal”.

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