Any Day Now: David Bowie - in pictures

Bowie (then David Jones) with his first professional band, the King Bees. Front row from left: Roger Bluck, Robert Allen, Dave Howard and George Underwood, 1964 Photograph: Dezo Hoffmann/Rex Features

After Bowie split from the King Bees he joined R&B outfit the Manish Boys. Davie Jones and the Manish Boys are pictured here in the band’s hometown of Maidstone, 1965 Photograph: Bob Solly

Bowie models John Stephen clothes for a Fabulous magazine feature in 1965. He is photographed with model Jan De Souza in Soho’s Kingly Street Photograph: Fiona Adams/Redferns

Bowie with the Pretty Things. He is waiting for the ferry to the Isle of Wight, where he supported one of his favourite bands. From left: Graham Rivens (Lower Third bassist), Bowie, Pretty Things' Phil May and Brian Pendleton, unknown and Phil Lancaster (Lower Third drummer), August 1965 Photograph: Denis Taylor

Two months after the release of his first album, Bowie is photographed on the roof of 39 Manchester Street, September 1967 Photograph: Kenneth Pitt

Bowie, then girlfriend Hermione Farthingale and John Hutchinson become mixed-media trio Feathers, November 1968 Photograph: Ray Stevenson/Rex Features

Bowie in Paddington Street Gardens, Marylebone in 1969 Photograph: Kenneth Pitt

Bowie at Foxgrove Road, the morning after the moon landing, July 1969 Photograph: Ray Stevenson/Rex Features

The last performance by David Bowie and Hype. The Roundhouse, July 1970 Photograph: Any Day Now

Bowie performing at a party in Los Angeles in 1971 Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty

Bowie and Mick Ronson at the former's RCA signing in New York, September 1971. During the same trip, Bowie met Andy Warhol for the first time Photograph: Any Day Now

'The idea of fame was an obsession – until it happened.' Ziggy’s first photocall, January 1972 Photograph: Brian Ward/David Bowie

Bowie preparing for a show. Ziggy mania had just started to sweep the UK in 1972 Photograph: Byron Newman

Prior to his famous Starman appearance on Top of the Pops, Bowie and the Spiders performed the song for children’s TV show Lift Off With Ayshea, June 1972 Photograph: ITV/Rex Features

Performing My Death on Russell Harty Plays Pop, January 1973 Photograph: ITV/Rex Features

Pictured with Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore after the duo's Behind the Fridge show at London’s Cambridge Theatre in May 1973. In 1971 David had asked Moore if he would play piano on a Hunky Dory track, though there is no record of a response Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images

In 1974, Bowie asked Belgium artist Guy Peellaert to create a half-man/half-dog Dr Moreau type album cover image. Peellaert’s work generally involved heavily airbrushed, manipulated images Photograph: Terry O'Neill/Getty Images

Limited-edition copy of Any Day Now Photograph: Adelita