David Bowie: Bent on Success
Rosalind Russell, Disc and Music Echo, 6 May 1972
DAVID BOWIE is at last letting the Great British Public catch up with him. With grasshopper alacrity, he has kept ahead of us for years — before, during and since the amazing 'Space Oddity'. A contemporary of Marc Bolan's, David admits that it's probably his "flightiness" and continual need for change that has stopped him becoming as big a name as Bolan.
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