Lindsay Kemp: The Man Who Taught Bowie His Moves
Mick Brown, Crawdaddy!, September 1974
LONDON — Lindsey Kemp doesnt converse. He orates. Words spill out, like wine from a jug, in a long, liquid flow; pictures spring to life, shaped by his large, mobile, mouth, illuminated by the movements of his hands, the arching of an eyebrow, the shrug of his shoulders.
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