David Bowie: Freak Out In A Moonage Daydream
Lenny Kaye, Cavalier, January 1973
AYLESBURY, ENGLAND. He is, as he had planned, magnificent. The stage appears impeccably struck, lights arranged to catch the finer angles of his face, making him seem at times wonderfully ape-like and primitive, at others supremely regal, capable of the grand gesture now and again.
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