David Bowie: Gay Guerillas & Private Movies
Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 24 February 1973
ALRIGHT, so you're a rock singer out of Beckenham, Kent called David Bowie and you're hotter than a stolen atom bomb packed with pictures of Howard Hughes playing strip poker with Jacqueline Onassis.
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