"After our short portrait session was finished and we were packing our equipment away, his assistant came back into the lounge area of the studio and said,

‘David says that if you’d like to go through into the studio you can spend a bit of time in there taking photographs while he works with the other musicians.’ What can I say that hasn’t already been said?

He was funny, he laughed a lot, he sounded like he was doing an impression of himself. You could hear Bromley, he smoked constantly, and he told indiscreet tales about other famous people. Surgically sharp observations on the nature of fame and ego. He noticed me humming his song ‘The Laughing Gnome’ ever so quietly to myself as I was photographing him, cocked his head and said, “I’ve got better ones than that y’know.”CHRIS FLOYD

David Bowie, photographed at The Chung King House Of Metal Studio, NYC, July 1999