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David Bowie: "Now Where Did I Put Those Tunes?"

David Quantick, Q, October 1999

He took Sly Stone's drugs. He thought Bing looked like a little orange on a stool. He named his son Duncan and is madly in love with his wife. Stranger still, David Bowie has remembered to write some tunes for his new album. "I'm less corner shop, more your Woolworths," he tells David Quantick.

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