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David Bowie once planned to relaunch Ziggy Stardust from outer space

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David Bowie once planned to relaunch his alter ego Ziggy Stardust in space.According to video games designer Phil Campbell, the late icon discussed buying up old satellites orbiting the Earth during the late 1990s.At the time Bowie was scoring the music to 1999 video game Omikron: The Nomad Soul.Campbell told The Mirror: “We talked about buying up a bunch of old satellites that were circling the Earth and he was going to relaunch Ziggy from space.“The idea was that Ziggy would beam us transmissions – ‘Are you receiving me…?'”He also revealed that Bowie wanted to make an appearance in the video game.

Campbell added: “One day David said, could he leave his Bowie persona in Omikron, and come out as David Jones? It was a delicious thought – did.

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