“In Japanese myth, the rabbits on my old costume - which Kate’s wearing today - live on the moon. Kate comes from Venus, and I, from Mars... Scotland, stay with us.”

And lo, David Bowie spake, and the deal was sealed.

Well, not quite. He didn’t speak (or even spake) at all. He doodled down an oddball note for a deadpan Kate Moss to drawl at this year’s BRIT Awards crowd; a moment of restrained weirdness so incongruously absurd amongst ...