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arranged and recorded within days of Duncan’s
birth. The arrangement and playing, too, is instinctive
but faultless, the product both of Mick Ronson’s
unrivalled musicality and of Bowie’s motivational
skills. The tributes to Warhol, Dylan and Lou Reed
are both naive and cynical; by paying them fealty,
Bowie also gives himself licence to assimilate them.
Lastly, ‘Changes’ would be the manifesto that
energised Bowie and all around him; matching a
luscious McCartney-style melody with a powerful
Lennon-style message, it would only graze the charts
but, crucially, would energise a tiny group of
believers, who helped their ‘golden boy’ ascend to
fame over the months that followed.