But how exactly didBowiecome up with this iconic look?

“I thought he would probably be cracked by lightning.

As for the accompanying tear drop, that was photographer Brian Duffy’s idea.

David Bowie at the Met

“He put that on afterward, just popped it in there,” Bowie explained.

“I thought it was rather sweet.”

David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane

David Bowie memorial in Brixton