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"The show itself and Mick Ronson's guitar performance were both great and it was a blast for all the Japanese fans. I asked Kansai-san, who designed the costumes, what he thought about it and he just said… 'People are the most beautiful when naked!'" Masayoshi Sukita
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"My first Japanese tour and what a mad scene that turned out to be. I got carried away enough to perform an impromptu strip and gave my best shot as a 120lb sumo wrestler." David Bowie
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"6-12th February 1973, rehearsals at RCA Studio, New York, USA. Working out a riff on my Mini-Moog, the best little synthesizer in the West." David Bowie.
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This photograph has special significance for Sukita because it was chosen by David Bowie to blow up to a very large size and display in the foyer of the Rainbow Theatre for his concerts there on 19 and 20 August 1972. As Sukita explains: "I was very pleased about it. It proved that David-san really did like my work, and that was very important to me."
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For this shoot, Sukita rented the studio from a Japanese photographer called Hiroshi Yoda and they did the session a week before David's show at The Rainbow Theatre. Immediately beforehand, Bowie had been at a shoot with David Bailey. The whole session lasted just two hours. Some photographs from the shoot were featured in a popular Japanese fashion magazine, an-an, receiving a great deal of response from the readers.
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For this shoot, Sukita rented the studio from a Japanese photographer called Hiroshi Yoda and they did the session a week before Davids show at The Rainbow Theatre. Immediately beforehand, Bowie had been at a shoot with David Bailey. The whole session lasted just two hours. Some photographs from the shoot were featured in a popular Japanese fashion magazine, an-an, receiving a great deal of response from the readers.
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"Bowie had come to Japan to film a commercial for a drink called Crystal Jun Rock Sunita received a call from Kyoto, where Bowie was staying for 10 days, and off he went with Yacco to make a one-day documentary of Bowie. Bowie had already made himself a local and drove them everywhere himself. We went to a local shopping area, rode the local trains and went out to a disco night. Most of the people around him were unaware of who he was, which perhaps gave him more freedom than usual." Masayoshi Sukita