Oblique Strategies
Cynthia Rose, Harpers & Queen, 1979
Cynthia Rose looks at artist/musicians David Bowie, Brian Eno and Iggy Pop (touring Britain this month) and the risks they are taking with electronics, Expressionism and the science of systems.
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