David Bowie: Best Of 1974/1979 (EMI)
Ian Fortnam, Vox, June 1998
Where the first instalment of this condensed collection of Bowie's "best" work covered the formative innocence of the man's glam rock period, 1974/1979 finds the Thin White Brixtonian convincingly slaying the longest of odds.
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