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David Bowie in the USA

Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 21 April 1973

THE MAN from the customs – a surly-looking Negro – eyed me suspiciously for a full ten minutes, and checked and rechecked my baggage and passport. "Hey kid," he challenged, "what bizness you got here in Dee-troit?"

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