David Bowie: Boston Garden, Boston
Deborah Frost, Boston Phoenix, 16 May 1978
DAVID BOWIE borrows identities and musical ideas the way teenage girls borrow their best friends' clothes. But no matter whose duds Bowie puts on, with a tuck here, a stitch there, they're tailored to his ambitions and affectations.
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