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A spot of Japanese mime for the ‘Miracle Goodnight’ video, Los Angeles, 1993. “I refuse to be thought of as mediocre. That’s why the idea of performance-as-spectacle is so important to me.” On Broadway: “The trouble is I always look for parts with an emotional or physical limp, and I always seem to get them.”
Waiting in the wings. Doing ‘Time’ for another stretch at Wembley Stadium, London, 1987. Any sense of <strong>Bowie</strong>’s cutting-edge appeal, trumped up during the punk days, had been wilfully abandoned. He became a model of sun-kissed family entertainment, took holidays in hot places instead of being holed up in the gay bars of Berlin,
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Gavin Evans/Retna: Front & back cov
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At manager Ken Pitt’s flat, Londo
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Only One Paper Left. New York, 1997
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Yes, Bowie’s project was about st
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ultimately, Bowie is less about tra
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SHAPING UP As early as 1962, Bowie
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1.1 The Buddha Of Suburbia Suburbia
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The boy David. By 1953 the Jones fa
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May 1964. Tonight, Matthew, I’m g
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Superstar to the hilt. Only favoure
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Tolkien, would be played out to the
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Bowie dressed in a quilted black pl
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When you’re a boy, they dress you
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Almost Grown. “He was always into
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I’M YOUR FAN Bowie celebrated his
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Suede Twenty years later, the “I
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A rare publicity shot of The Kon-ra
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The dilated pupil in Bowie’s left
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music, Wendy Carlos’s Moog take o
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Bunuel and Dali’s surrealist shor
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Garland for the rock generation”.
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some of that locally in Bromley, bu
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Portrait of a young man as an art b
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are O-level pass in the subject. Hi
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Fulham, 1995, with samples of his w
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Walter Gramattè’s 1921 canvas, S
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Afro/Pagan And Work 1975-1995, a re
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Bowie recently revamped The Crowd P
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The Mannish Boys in Maidstone’s M
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Safely inside the BBC Television Ce
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Elvis Presley “I saw a cousin of
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Jacques Brel Bowie discovered Belgi
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loved her,” there’s a very high
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mainman Marc Bolan, whose revivalis
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change. He’d briefly called himse
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MICK ROCK Bowie, pictured with phot
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“It was all done on a shoestring
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he’d sign anything without readin
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1.3 Renaissancemanbowie In paisley.
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hard concepts to put into song, tho
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GAY GAMES This European CD of Sixti
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other that I took home and neatly f
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ock a potent spokesman.” A year l
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liberating effect Bowie had in unlo
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deal after Bowie’s 1967 LP floppe
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Ken Pitt: “Now you see the genesi
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Bowie seized his moment. He attende
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At the Beckenham Free Festival. “
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‘Hole In The Ground’ is a littl
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Bowie’s continuing interest in Bu
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inflicted my taste for the theatric
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dark days of the mid-Seventies, he
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The late Sixties quest for alternat
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might be. In another song, ‘Width
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A paint-splattered Ziggy doing some
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A rare colour shot of Growth’s Su
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At the BBC’s Paris Cinema Studios
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Mick Jagger The spectacle of these
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John Lennon They never shared a sta
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Tin a Turner Bowie was regularly se
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1.5 The Man Who Bought The Dress In
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Long tresses and long dresses. “O
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Most Sixties and early Seventies ro
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Showing off designer footwear, 1971
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Trouser rehearsal for The Man Who S
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oo style like Veronica Lake’s. Mo
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Lauren Bacall Veronica Lake.
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I FELT LIKE AN ACTOR As the anarchi
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As Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man
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CLASSIC CREATIONS
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of the decade he’d succumbed to t
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of those four guys, although aspect
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Lucky numbers. Ziggy plays guitar i
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STARMAN: SECOND BITE Black shoes, w
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Stardom, as John Lennon was fond of
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the QE2. But a punishing work sched
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Bowie’s mind during 1971 and the
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As Bowie and his Ziggy doppelganger
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When I first wrote it was just an e
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THE ZIGGY ENIGMA Bowie’s most eni
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keen to stress the importance of th
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throwback to the first idol of Glam
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The Nazz, Todd Rundgren’s band.
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The Aladdin Sane lightning bolt was
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‘Drive In Saturday’ was also pe
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these girls try to get me over to t
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John Hutchinson. The threesome appe
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Kornilof, a costume and set designe
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never been central to their relatio
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Ava Cherry, the funk-soul sister. W
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Paris, May 1976. Dalliances with Je
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With Iman at London’s Cork Street
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No outfit was out of bounds to Bowi
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“This was the first Japanese cost
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Bogart, Sinatra, right and below),
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switched again, to Marlboro Lights.
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made it more durable than its prede
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Watch That Man. At New York’s Rad
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MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS A man of wea
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with her own bank account. David Bo
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Bowie’s flagging creativity. Igno
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2.3 Soul Survivor At the Amstel Hot
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the heat out of Bowiemania, and wit
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previously,” Bowie insisted. He w
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“To this day he was the most extr
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Aleister Crowley The so-called Wick
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Nazism The power of a modern media
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David Bowie circa 1974 is not rock
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above the audience, were cradled by
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Never mind the quality, feel the wi
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The Mask. Performing ‘Aladdin San
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The wedge cut -Phil Oakey was intri
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Bauhaus Oh dear. Punk met Glam and
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Japan David Batt enjoyed the “cra
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Not many people needed Leo Sayer (a
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Psychedelic Furs Richard Butler tho
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Bowie gets ready to ‘wave’ to t
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Fashion! Turn to the right. Bowie:
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Bowie tried out different outfits e
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“All my reading in that particula
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Decked out like a Christmas tree. A
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“The audiences are always about o
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“I’d got this thing in my mind
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Duke Of Earl. Bowie had recorded a
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‘Be My Wife’. Bowie filmed a vi
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different thing to saying it needs
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