Achtung, achtung, these are your orders

So, as it all starts tomorrow, its only right that today we lay down a few ground rules, to make it incredibly clear what we are doing.

The plan is to listen to David Bowie's career in microcosm, over the space of a year. This means that as from tomorrow morning, in the mind of myself and Ben the music of David Bowie never existed. Basically, tomorrow sees the release of a brand new album from an exciting new artist, and hey, he's named that album after himself. Lucky for us, the follow-up album Space Oddity comes out on the 21st January, thats neat.

So once Space Oddity is in my possession, I can go back and listen to tracks from David Bowie if I wish. But I can't go "hey, I really fancy giving Fame a spin", because in our new world that song doesn't exist yet. Or rather, does not exist until around about July when it is "released".

Through this, we will see his musical career slowly unwind in front of our ears. We can't listen to a new album until its fortnight comes up. We must listen to it at least three times to really let it sink in. And we can look back at Bowie, but never forward.

So in preparation for these rather Nazi-lite rules, I have just listened to Hallo Spaceboy twice, Ziggy Stardust whilst doing the washing up and watched this clip - possibly my favourite Bowie clip on the whole of Youtube, an amazing rendition of Ashes to Ashes performed for the BBC in a show originally broadcast in 2000. ENJOY!