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David Bowie: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 14 July 1973

THERE ARE crowds of kids outside the hall, waiting for Stardust to limousine into view. And for them this is all three times as real, 12 times as important as it is for a sold-out journalist who strolls in, feeling old and hoping someone might point at him.

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