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Happy Birthday, David Bowie!

Paul Gorman, Music Week, January 1997

THERE'S NOTHING the media loves more than an anniversary and David Bowie's 50th birthday on January 8 offered ample opportunity for career retrospectives and dissections in the form of two TV specials, a Radio One acoustic broadcast and a star-studded New York concert celebration.

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