The Konrads, The Riot Squad, psychedelic folk, glam rock, soul, funk, The Thin White Duke, Berlin, the pop years, Tin Machine, electronic music... The musical chronology of David Bowie (1947-2016), which spans almost six decades, shows a rare few. In June 1972, at the height of glam rock, Bowie pulled out of his sleeve a alter ego: Ziggy Stardust, the alien rocker who brought him eternal fame with the album Rice and Ziggy ruling Stardust and Spiders from Mars. That one look Bowie's flamboyant and androgynous style—one of the first to break gender barriers—captivated the public. So did a Japanese photographer who was passing through London, where he had gone to do a photo shoot with Marc Bolan, the singer of T-Rex. But Masayoshi Sukita (Nogata, 1938) couldn't get a poster he had seen on the street out of his head. "At the time, I didn't know who he was. So I asked the concierge at the hotel where I was staying who Bowie was. I was so impressed by that image that I knew I had to attend one of his concerts," explains Sukita, 87, via email from Japan. What he didn't know then was that the poster would change his life.