David Bowie: Pin-Ups
Ian MacDonald, NME, 20 October 1973
THE GOLDEN AGE Of Rock is almost universally assumed to have been in full swing between about 1954 and 1959, following which, according to every critic over the age of 20, the music degenerated in inverse proportion to the growth of its expressive sophistication.
Cobblers to that, say I.
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