David Bowie : Young Americans
Ian MacDonald, NME, 15 March 1975
WHERE have all poppa's heroes gone? Living in New York, every one. A hard city by reputation, but presumably it has its compensations for someone with sufficient pocket money. Exile on main street could never be that dismal for a guy with a thing in the charts – Or Could It?
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