“I remember going to get a pizza with David Bowie while we were recording the album at Trident…His record ‘Starman’ was one the jukebox while we were waiting, and he said, ‘Yours will be on soon.’ I said ‘Yeah, great, but for some reason I’m not as excited as I would have been if it had come from the band.’ And he said, ‘I know what you mean.’”

Verden Allen, cited in The Complete David Bowie (2004 edition), p.23