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Paul Morley: The Age of Bowie – How David Bowie Made a World of Difference

Barney Hoskyns, The Observer, 17 July 2016

"EVERYONE HAS THEIR own Bowie," Paul Morley writes in this discursive, free-associating ride across the life and work of the Starman Who Changed the World. More accurately, perhaps, we all have our own Bowie(s), since there were – there are – so many of them, from mod opportunist to free-festival minstrel to "leper messiah" to Thin White Duke to… well, where does it end?

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