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Ziggy Stardust has Left the Building

Summary:

A certain young 'Starman' is a national treasure and he wants to keep it that way. Unfortunately his loud brash American English female cousin Angie attempts to muscle in on his Ziggy Stardust alien character with her favourite 1970s era rock stars and wants a glam rock influence. David Bowie has massive arguments with her especially when he Googled their pasts before he was even born as DCI David Bowie and the UCOS unit at the London Metropolitan Police CID in Brixton are helping his CID colleagues prepare for Operation Yewtree in other events by investigating open and unsolved cases involving ageing 70s era rock stars. This David Bowie and BBC New Tricks crossover fanfiction also contains references to the 2000 film Almost Famous.

Set in 2011-2013.

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(See the end of the work for notes.)

Chapter 1

Summary:

David's cousin Angie attempts to take over his Ziggy Stardust alien character, he ensures she doesn’t put in 70s glam rock music influences. David Bowie had massive arguments with his loud and brash American English female cousin as he helps his CID colleagues prepare and plan Operation Yewtree. He chose a 90s vibe for Ziggy Stardust deliberately and had a wish of collaborating with his favourite childhood post punk, electronic, pop and alternative rock bands.

Chapter Text

A certain young 'Starman' is a national treasure. His London Metropolitan Police CID colleagues are busy preparing for and planning Operation Yewtree with David's help as a Detective Chief Inspector, he is just 23 years old and is already leading a large undercover operation as well as working on his music, acting, theatre, well known British television drama series after successfully spending six years on Malcolm in The Middle in America from 2000-2006 for FOX television and performing.

"I listen to Johnny Walker's 'Sounds of the Seventies' every Sunday, love it, and always surprises me how many fantastic songs there were then." Angie Mary Barnet hinted although she's only four years older than David, always waxed lyrically about 1970s glam rock stars.

"I wasn't even born then and I read somewhere some of these 70s era rock stars no longer get royalties." David Bowie replied to his cousin sharply pulling her up. "for obvious reasons." 

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Characterized by an early 80s post punk, ballad and late 80s-90s Alternative aesthetic, David chose a fusion of pop rock melodies to go with his Ziggy Stardust album.

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David Bowie was a happy and excitable child, who also exhibited sensitivity and care. His talent as an artist was evident from an early age, as he would draw his favourite characters from films, novels, video games, favourite comics and cartoons, so now he wanted to create an original character of his own called Ziggy Stardust, a music loving alien who lands on Planet Earth from Mars. His little brother is  always with him, playing video games, keeping in touch, making films of his own on a Sony camcorder while his older brother David was on popular on the school theatre stage and wanting to hang out on film and television sets when he and Duncan were younger.

He has his own ISP and the first artist ever to make his music available for download. In a time when a lot of old school music artists are railing against the Internet and social media, he embraces it because he knew social media was something big but also have huge implications going forward as smartphones have been made for three years.

One of David's favourite clubs in London the Complex in the Angel Islington used to have 4 floors. 3 dance House, Drum and Bass and Techno. The top floor was a bar with pool tables and PlayStations with a big screen that would’ve been about 97-98. Those were the days. His dad John Stenton Jones would take a 9 or 10 year old David Robert Jones to play the newest Sony PlayStation 1 games there as well as watching house, drum, bass and techno bands.