David Bowie: Rare
Chris Bohn, NME, 18 January 1983
NEITHER RARE nor particularly well done, the latest Bowie collection of alternative cuts, outtakes, live run throughs, flipsides and flops is hardly likely to endear RCA to their presently estranged, contractless breadwinner.
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