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arrive at that warmer and happier place. David was a boy, cared for by managers and those who found him attractive and charming. This shift was observed by others who knew him then. “I remember when David’s father died he was very solemn, as anybody would be when their father dies, and he took the responsibility of looking after his mother very seriously,” Visconti has said. “David automatically assumed the role of his father in matters of domestic finance. He appeared to grow up instantly …” Within a year, he would be a husband. Within two, a father. And in three, the biggest rock star in England. Angie had been right on. Things were changing fast.
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Introduction T he idea was not even
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photo book, David Bowie has not wri
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that I do own and am currently tryi
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‘David, David, David,’ I do ove
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apartment building and the Modern G
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unlikely was it that someone as sup
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Prologue I T WAS THE SECOND NIGHT o
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darker end of Simon & Garfunkel or
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energized in a way that Fashion Roc
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World War II, this home is static.
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more likely to develop the disease.
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claim the baby but was rebuffed by
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with him,” Hilda Sullivan said,
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early ’46. Once his legal papers
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all accounts, he became the greates
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2. T HE HIGH STREET in the southern
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West Indian immigrants settled and
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imagination and, eventually, by ste
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ads rounds the panel out). Dinah in
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Terry may have been the one who pro
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he finds a patch of yellow marigold
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white tube, with its small screen a
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British space program mission heade
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mother’s generation, once again,
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technically living? Do you age? Do
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other skulking around a small town,
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Studying other people. [Russian act
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jockey Alan Freed (who has a great
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the thirties and the forties becaus
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you can look sharp and still be a b
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dancing and fighting.” Oral contr
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fame or creative expression. “The
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was twelve … I had the bowl cut.
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Mulligan. He was the next best thin
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Burns, the senior Frampton was a
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his classroom and even encouraged h
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got slugged for it. “When I was f
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knowing the details of why he had t
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and American pop history (from Prud
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ecords.” By 1960, the blues had r
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like heroes when they flew to Londo
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Pink Moon album) and author (White
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paintings and was almost never with
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ands for fetes and functions, they
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would spend the rest of the 1960s t
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gigs, then went on to something els
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acting as if he and his combo were
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usiness heights, including … tale
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noted nowadays, remains every inch
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By thirteen Marc too had his first
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penchant for boasting to the eager
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’cause I write great things and I
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other with braggadoccio, David’s
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happy playing the blues, gulping sp
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The Manish Boys promoted the single
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The band still had no real money an
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then a white Russian-peasant-type s
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another marriage of convenience for
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traffic jam. The band rode in the b
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trusting your instincts worked well
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different from the gruff white blue
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thought that he’d made it. It was
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felt they should do, they did it an
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horticultural terraced cottages tha
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laid groundwork for the empowered r
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“A lot of the inspiration started
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unknown new group the Velvet Underg
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intense stage presence were unlike
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little mod racing up-hill along War
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“dreadful.” As he elaborated fo
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Cockney’s prison break. Bowie far
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1600s. During World War I they’d
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care. Bowie was devastated to be in
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In 1967 Tony Visconti, then a twent
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According to Visconti, after leavin
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survival. I amazed and dazzled them
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Pitt at the time.” Kemp says, “
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the young David Bowie. Kemp and Bir
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omantic to starve with these artist
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Bowie-ism. I displayed his compact
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at! But I am also struck by how bra
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There’s a point in most people’
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production of “The Pistol Shot,
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writers Oberman had reached out to,
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when compared to the lives of his n
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tantamount to tracing a line in the
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paid off all the outstanding debt h
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events that caused something amazin
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There was no room for a piano in hi
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will remain the stuff of best-of li
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place of my own. Having said that,
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12. I N THE SUMMER OF 1971, at La M
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Mother’s residence. “What’s t
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or offstage. So David very much cla
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further with their scene. That we w
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as Ziggy Stardust. Buretti, backed
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perfect for the label and as a resu
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Wearing a floppy black hat and bagg
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was more practical and that they we
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couldn’t take it anymore. Iggy wa
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doing. You’re just acting crazy,
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and unpleasant international activi
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had the notion to fashion together
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autobiography to accompany the sing
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London (in this case ordered by boo
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Bowie as well. Magazines were produ
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story was picked up by proper tablo
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interviews and he was a favorite of
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provocative at the same time. He ma
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in a certain mood and I will say th
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“David sensed there was something
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pedestrian, fat, skinny, tall or sh
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theme of transformation from Lady S
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makeup thing by being told the big
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set plagued with technical problems
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Division, Echo and the Bunnymen, th
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felt and still feel that there was
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taking photos of Bowie almost immed
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searching for a guitar move to call
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everything? By Friday? So I wrote t
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Crondston into a small furnished ap
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fatigue and desperation become sexy
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and quips. The event has passed int
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15. I T’S HARD TO BELIEVE NOW, wi
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anticipation. While in New York and
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his Spiders were a leaner, fiercer
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eing America, there was much made o
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to read. The forty-six-person U.S.
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said ‘David would like to have a
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witnessed at the E. Club and the fe
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his late father’s employer, Dr. B
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challenging if not utterly dubious.
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“They weren’t just launching a
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Power had been released in early 19
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perfectly with the loss of equilibr
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Beetle, plays a mean hand of canast
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going on. At the time I had this gi
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a pair of briefs. While the Bowies
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organization or the scene. Defries
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MainMan’s attentions as a solo ar
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sacking offense.” John Hutchinson
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them up Ziggy style. The album’s
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ehind to grab his breasts. It was t
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16. A LTHOUGH THERE’S NO WAY to m
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he bargained for.” Cocaine helped
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hotel, he said to me, in very heate
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technique, as he informed Burroughs
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unattractive at the time.” Diamon
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capers,” Bowie warns on the track
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introduced him to Michael Bennett,
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silk-screened paper skyscrapers, ea
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flared up and hit the mirrors just
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ought something entirely new to the
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child, most of it via eight-track t
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indeed “gone disco,” causing ma
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eligiously. And it was no wonder th
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grabbed their instrument, intent on
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much in tune with a generation who
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AM, with him patiently demonstratin
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the only one I know who has appeare
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cast in any direction.” Cavett fi
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Defries figured that Mick Ronson wo
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first half of the decade. Bowie dec
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though the agreement remains confid
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espond to such portrayals and condu
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een Angie Bowie. It’s never been
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that the profound and undeniably se
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avenue. It’s very calm. It’s a
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And be the lintel blest And bless t
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is where I’m destined to be Billy
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uncommon even for a rich rock ’n
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ecall. “And there were pieces of
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the emptiness of some awful cold bl
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that it started to bubble and smoke
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shoot, away from his dealers and ha
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to know more about your partner, or
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exclusive club in L.A.” Both Keit
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an array of candles, symbols and bu
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at him at all, almost as if they’
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Michael Lipp man was reportedly bla
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“Iggy is very stupid,” Lou Reed
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foul in the air at the moment is to
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“Berlin trilogy” as that record
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“I probably didn’t really reali
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Like Low it’s aimed squarely at t
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19. I N JANUARY OF 1975 Brian Eno,
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he would bring to his next band. As
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about and decided I had to start wr
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instrumentation. “Then, as now, t
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movement with an air of art and enn
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had any misgivings concerning its a
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20. T HE NEIGHBORHOOD ALONG the Hau
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created. “It had larger spaces. I
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e. There was a lot of distrust near
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thereby reinforce the lyrics. “I
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ecame obvious why they were so frie
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during the New York City power fail
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Bolan was killed in a car accident
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for a version of Prokofiev’s Pete
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autobiography, published in 1993, p
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ather, David tried to talk to Frank
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composing avant-garde pop singles.
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movies rolled into one.” Perhaps
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produced with Eno), the David Byrne
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the Human League’s or Gary Numan
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slight and balding but worked that
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also produced by Eno) and the bass-
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Nomi happily ceded the spotlight to
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the musicians in on what he would b
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party, at One Fifth Avenue in Green
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anywhere else. “Companies can mes
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me banned from school. I was a stra
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images of the Nazi Blitzkrieg, and
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Bowie liked the move and used it la
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one of the album’s four singles,
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to London to view the body cast of
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Lennon, as it did to any fan of roc
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its review. “But the point is mor
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emove all competition, old (the Sto
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than Huey Lewis or Pat Benatar or M
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stuck in adolescent crisis. They wa
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Michael Jackson, Blondie and Prince
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shoulder. I was doing lots of acid.
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e ashamed to say you do not love it
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from the bar circuits thanks to hig
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Pretenders and U2). Bowie, Van Hale
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“He’s buried and he’s dying a
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I remember seeing the “Let’s Da
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and could not be David Bowie. By th
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Within a year John Travolta and a l
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Also very strong, it suggests what
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maneuvering his hair dryer) and id
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Millions of Bowie fans and tabloid
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dockyards, is the camp-off that Bow
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for the ten minutes that it took to
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pal Hoggle; the bog gives off a del
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actually gives a toss for what’s
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wail of “Let’s Dance”). “Ob
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stinging reviews seemed to snap Bow
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manages to keep a straight face whi
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ut as he celebrated his forty-first
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Tin Machine was guitarist Reeves Ga
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make and didn’t feel like his aud
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angular sharp-edged indie rock soun
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shot a video clip with Gus Van Sant
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Stadium on April 20, 1992. He took
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God bless you,” as the surviving
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holding her own. If you didn’t kn
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eady to experiment with the kind of
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their mutual celebrity stock. He ga
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producer of his biggest-selling alb
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that Morrissey, an avowed fan of Ro
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punk and New Wave, came as those in
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calms you down. He’s always in th
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tone for Microsoft’s Windows prog
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On “We Prick You,” Bowie demand
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Peter Schwartz rounded out the line
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wasn’t having it.” When the Out
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including Dennis Hopper, who was am
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‘What’s securitization?’” P
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Nobody thought of this. Then they s
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27. L IKE THE MOD MOVEMENT followin
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etrayed a certain measure of shame
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carry around with him in his bag.
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ambition, however, he didn’t care
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eally cool if we were all on the sa
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Bowie had been using a personal com
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Miller, an editor at Wired magazine
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vaguely campy speech. Bowie looked
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women like shit. Good Marc had to c
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important and seldom-acknowledged t
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director (for another stylistic hom
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Diamond Dogs. We used ‘Baby’s o
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iconography from the Berlin Wall to
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Bowie and Gabrels would record the
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seemed the first instance of Bowie
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the years since producing Scary Mon
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worried about him. I think his fath
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hard to continue to avoid reading i
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and an offer to headline the second
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New Romantic and Britpop, Bowie dre
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immortal “Pablo Picasso” (alrea
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extended well into 2004 and Bowie w
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had been a success, according to re
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an episode from season two of the c
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poet Ken Nordine, the Polyphonic Sp
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excited about it,” Tibbitt explai
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for me, the chance to design a Bowi
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in upstate New York. He doesn’t e
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Savage asking me when discussing th
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this David Jones, I wrote a book fo
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it’s all right to miss him. But r
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BOOKS Anger, Kenneth. Hollywood Bab
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York: Grove Press, 1996. Meyers, Pa
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PERIODICALS Bromley Kentish Times,
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WEBSITES bowiewonderworld.com teena
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weren’t they? Jim keeps me from g
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McElfresh and everyone at budgettra
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