David Bowie: Never Let Me Down
Roy Trakin, Creem, August 1987
THE PICTURE OF Dorian Bowie, in which the master remains young but his music begins to limp. Or the boy who cried wolf, so that when he's finally being sincere we don't believe him. How about cats that have nine lives? David Bowie's gone through at least twice that.
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