On September 25th of 1967, aged 20 and yet to make much of an impression on the music scene, David Bowie was so enthused to receive his first piece of American fan mail that he immediately typed out a reply from the office of his manager, Kenneth Pitt. The fan in question, 14-year-old Sandra Dodd, had come to own a promotional copy of Bowie's first album as a result of her uncle running a radio station in New Mexico — immediately impressed, she wrote to Bowie, told him his music was as good as that of The Beatles and offered to start a U.S. fan club on his behalf.