Bowie and Uluru (Ayers Rock)

"The first time I had seen Ayers Rock was as on the cover of a Stravinsky album.

It was a Music for Pleasure series put out by Woolworths and they were real cheap albums but the sound was really good and they had pretty big orchestras and did all the classics and stuff. And I bought that particular one - I was only about 12 - because of the picture on the front and I thought -what a fantastic looking mountain or whatever that is.

It looked really exciting and subsequently when I read the sleeve notes, I realised it was this place in Australia and I always wanted to see it because of that.

I've seen it a couple of times now. It's a childhood image that stays in your mind, and it became an ambition of some kind."

- David Bowie, 2004.





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