At his 50^th party Bowie said “I don’t know where I’m going from here. But I promise it won’t be boring.” Something he seems to have stood by from the day he set foot on our earth, rather than fifty years down the line. Surprising, daring, amusing, charming, yes, but boring – Bowie has never been. Some of the classic video parts mentioned here can only become more iconic and surely there will be more to join them in due course. There is no doubt that some variation of Aladdin Sane will remain either half boardslid away on our decks or immaculately adorned on walls for years to come also…

There are a final few words of wisdom worth bearing in mind from David Bowie though. The world at large might present us with another dubious use of skateboarding to market hair products or a ‘celebrity’ claiming they skate. Meanwhile we’re still booted out of spots by security guards often with zero interest in being reasoned with. You’ve probably been asked ‘aren’t you too old for this?’ and ‘isn’t there something better that you could be doing?’ more times than you can recollect. We might be ‘cool’ in one sense, but we aren’t really. The uninformed, the ignorant, the masses still don’t understand what it is we do and why we love it. Then again…

Rebel, rebel, how could they know?